User manual BUSINESS OBJECTS XCELSIUS 2008

[. . . ] Xcelsius 2008 User Guide Xcelsius 2008 User Guide Copyright © 2008 Business Objects. patents, which may cover products that are offered and licensed by Business Objects: 5, 295, 243; 5, 339, 390; 5, 555, 403; 5, 590, 250; 5, 619, 632; 5, 632, 009; 5, 857, 205; 5, 880, 742; 5, 883, 635; 6, 085, 202; 6, 108, 698; 6, 247, 008; 6, 289, 352; 6, 300, 957; 6, 377, 259; 6, 490, 593; 6, 578, 027; 6, 581, 068; 6, 628, 312; 6, 654, 761; 6, 768, 986; 6, 772, 409; 6, 831, 668; 6, 882, 998; 6, 892, 189; 6, 901, 555; 7, 089, 238; 7, 107, 266; 7, 139, 766; 7, 178, 099; 7, 181, 435; 7, 181, 440; 7, 194, 465; 7, 222, 130; 7, 299, 419; 7, 320, 122 and 7, 356, 779. Business Objects and the Business Objects logo, BusinessObjects, Business Objects Crystal Vision, Business Process On Demand, BusinessQuery, Cartesis, Crystal Analysis, Crystal Applications, Crystal Decisions, Crystal Enterprise, Crystal Insider, Crystal Reports, Crystal Vision, Desktop Intelligence, Inxight, the Inxight Logo, LinguistX, Star Tree, Table Lens, ThingFinder, Timewall, Let There Be Light, Metify, NSite, Rapid Marts, RapidMarts, the Spectrum Design, Web Intelligence, Workmail and Xcelsius are trademarks or registered trademarks in the United States and/or other countries of Business Objects and/or affiliated companies. SAP is the trademark or registered trademark of SAP AG in Germany and in several other countries. [. . . ] Open or create an Xcelsius file that contains the data you would like to use. Click the Title cell selector button and select the cell containing the title for the Gauge component. Click the Data cell selector button and select the Actual Value for Sales. Click As Percent of Target, click the cell selector and select the Target value for Sales. In the Color Order section, click High Values are Good. 156 Xcelsius 2008 User Guide Using Advanced Features Creating templates 8 In the Alert Location section, check both Background and Marker. Click the Data cell selector button and select the Actual Value for Sales. Repeat steps 2-14, customizing the second Gauge and Slider components to display the "Inventories" data. For both components, set the Scale Minimum and Maximum limits to zero (0) and 108 respectively. For the Gauge, in the Color Order section, click Middle Values are Good. Repeat steps 2-14, customizing the third Gauge and Slider components to display the "Cost of Goods Sold" data. For both components: set the Scale Minimum and Maximum limits to zero (0) and 440 respectively. Click the Preview button to view the interaction between the Gauge and Slider components. The affect on the alert display of increasing or decreasing the Actual Value varies based on whether it should be higher or lower than the Target Value. Sales values should be high, while the Cost of Goods Sold should be low, and Inventory amounts should be as close as possible to its Target. 10. 14. Creating templates Xcelsius 2008 offers a set of templates you can use to create a new visualization. You can also create a visualization from scratch and save it as a template. Each Category contains a group of templates that are displayed under the Items section. As you select each template in the list, a preview of the template is shown on the right side of the screen. You can click on the selectors to see the intended functionality of the components. When selected, the template is inserted on the canvas as a new visualization. You can now add, delete or modify the template, and save it as a new visualization or as a modified or new template. Xcelsius 2008 User Guide 157 8 Using Advanced Features Creating templates Note: Templates are not bound to any data. They demonstrate assorted layouts and combinations of components. Custom-made templates You can create your own templates. [. . . ] This option will determine the number of labels displayed by default in the drop-down menu of the panels. Background Transparency Use the slider or enter a value to adjust the transparency of the Panel Set's background. This setting does not affect the content of the component. Specific to the Grid component Vertical Margin Enter a value or use the up/down arrows to adjust the value. This setting modifies the amount of space between each column of items in the Grid component. Horizontal Margin Enter a value or use the up/down arrows to adjust the value. This setting modifies the amount of space between each row of items in the Grid component. Text tab Select the box in the Show column adjacent to each text element you want to display on the component. Format Selected Text The following parameters apply to the text element that is highlighted in the Show-Text selection box. [. . . ]