Xcelsius Dashboard based on BI Query

Hi,
We want to embed an Xcelsius dashboard into our application. All other forms of Xcelsius dashboard work except for the one based on a SAP BW Query. The Xcelsius dashboard work fine in the portal when we embed the Xcelsius dashboard into an iView.
We identified that if we pass the following parameters to the dashboard it should work but not sure what it means. Can you help us identifying what does it mean and from where can we get these paramaters.
Regards,
Tarun
BICSWS_PAGEID = "BICSWS_PAGEID";
BICSWS_ENDPOINT = "BICSWS_ENDPOINT";
BICSWS_TICKET = "BICSWS_TICKET";
BICSWS_LANGUAGE = "BICSWS_LANGUAGE";
BICSWS_DECIMAL = "BICSWS_DECIMAL";
BICSWS_THOUSANDSEPARATOR = "BICSWS_THOUSANDSEPARATOR";
BICSWS_MONTHSLONG = "BICSWS_MONTHSLONG";
BICSWS_MONTHSSHORT = "BICSWS_MONTHSSHORT";
BICSWS_DAYSLONG = "BICSWS_DAYSLONG";
BICSWS_DAYSSHORT = "BICSWS_DAYSSHORT";
BICSWS_DATESEPARATOR = "BICSWS_DATESEPARATOR";
BICSWS_TIMESEPARATOR = "BICSWS_TIMESEPARATOR";
BICSWS_DEBUG = "BICSWS_DEBUG";
BICSWS_CONMODE = "BICSWS_CONMODE";
CONMODE_BI_RUNTIME = "BI_RUNTIME";
CONMODE_STATELESS = "STATELESS";

What kind of application are you embedding it into?
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