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Latest Tweets
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Using Filtered rows instead of VLOOKUPS in Xcelsius @
http://davidlai101.com/blog/2010/07/02/using-filtered-rows-instead-of-vlookup/ - posted on Jul 03, 2010
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New Post on the Xcelsius Push Button Object @
http://davidlai101.com/blog/2010/05/29/xcelsius-push-button/ - posted on May 29, 2010
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Xcelsius dynamic color binding article and video posted @ http://davidlai101.com/blog/2010/04/06/xcelsius-dynamic-color-binding/ - posted on Apr 06, 2010
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Guide on Business Objects access levels posted http://davidlai101.com/blog/2010/02/19/understanding-business-objects-access-levels/ - posted on Feb 19, 2010
Building Scorecards in Xcelsius 2008 and the significance of Global Embedded Fonts
One of the very powerful new additions to Xcelsius 2008 is the ability to create scorecards easily. If we wanted to create scorecards in Xcelsius 4.5 we would need to manually insert trending icons into each row in order to create a scorecard.
In Xcelsius 2008 however we can use a label based menu with alerts. The alerts will act as the trending icons and from there we only need one object to show our indicators.
Here are some simple instructions to create a scorecard.