Finally GA!
For weeks there has been announcements all over Twitter that the Xcelsius 2008 Service Pack 5 (SP5) with support for Windows 7 and Office 2010 (32-bit) was available on the Service Marketplace. Today we were notified that SAP has made it generally available on its new product updates site: http://bit.ly/xgnFt1 (see the official announcement from Matt Lloyd).
This Service Pack is a cumulative patch, so it incorporates all the patches to-date and delivers new fixes and features. All files must be extracted and downloaded from the zip file and ran directly from your hard drive. After Service Pack 5 (SP5) is installed, the version number in the about box will change to: 5.5.0.0.
Noted additions to this service pack include:
- Wrap Text Support for Scorecards: In scorecard components, text can be set to wrap within cells.
- Enhanced Support for Bubble Charts: Now you can now bind the alert values in a bubble chart so you can have one series but have control over the bubble colors using alerts (before you had to define one series for each color which was a pain). Below is a screenshot of the Bubble Chart.
Listed below is all the provided documentation you will need:
- Xcelsius 2008 Service Pack 5 User Guide
- Xcelsius 2008 Service Pack 5 Supported Platforms
- SAP BusinessObjects XI 3.1 Service Pack 5 Release Notes (includes Xcelsius) (SMP Login Required)
- What’s new in SAP BusinessObjects XI3.1 Service Pack 5 (includes Xcelsius)
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