Xcelsius webservice

Hi Team
Im using Xcelsius 2008 and i need to build report by extracting metrics from an database.Please help me as how can i pull data from database tables. I heard that we need to create a plsql block and call it as web service connection. Can somebody help me as how to implement this.Please let me know if any documentation is available for this.
Thanks
reddi

Hi Florian,
I'm a bit stumped. I don't think that your method of debugging using just the URL will work, because there is no authentication - Xcelsius should be sending something that identifies you (I think a logon ticket of some sort). It is probably in the headers of the request that you took the URL from, so you may want to look there.
But it seems like your Xcelsius should work. Maybe it's upset at your for not calling it "SAP Crystal Dashboard Design" or "SAP BusinessObjects Dashboard Design".
You might try specifying a measure, but I'm not sure if that will help. Maybe someone else can chime in.
Ethan

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