Xcelsius PPT Problem

Hi All,
We have developed 2 xcelsius dashboards and we want all the dashboards to be embedded in PowerPoint as 2 different slides.
But the problem is when we execute the PPT, it asks for the login credentials twice - once for the first dashboard and another for the second.
Can anyone please suggest a way to avoid this multiple logins?
Regards,
Pra

Hi Pra,
this thread was already discussed under:
[Re: Having to Login to Business Objects each slide on a PowerPoint|Re: Having to Login to Business Objects each slide on a PowerPoint]
It might be helpful.
Regards
Victor

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- Performance is another issue. When you use a reasonably-sized data set, XCelsius performance degrades exponentially, something not acceptable for corporate customers. I am not talking here about 10's of thousands of rows and columns, but simply 2,000 rows and 15 columns.
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Thanks for your reply and understanding, xzatious. Now I know I am not alone!
I definately learnt to get used to those errors, but that doesn't make them less annyoing. As for the tip on the Excel process running in the background, thanks but I was already aware of it. But precisely this evidences one of the biggest problems with XCelsius: the poor coding techniques used when developing it.
Any developer in the world knows one of the first things to implement in the application you are developing is good exception handling, and definately XCelsius is not an example of that. Most of the times, when it crashes, it simply says "Xcelsius.exe has found an error and needs to close" and then it leaves the Excel instance it has been using running in the background. What kind of exception handling is this?!?!? An enterprise-oriented software like XCelsius with its price tag (not cheap!) should be much better developed than this!
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Hi,
I am using demo xcelsius 2008. When I am logging into the SAP BI, it showing blank Error message.
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hi
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> 9.0.115.0
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