Xcelsius Multilayer Dashboards

Major challenges we are facing while developing Xcelsius dashboard is performance related issues. These issues mostly due to wrong layout design, improper data load strategy or trying to accommodate large number of view in a single dashboard.

Here we are going to discuss on Multilayer dashboard, which again based on the points mentioned above.

Multilayer dashboard is a concept which enables developers to create a dashboard with more than one swf file. This is required when there is lots of information to be handled a single dashboard.

The concept is simple; the parent dashboard will contain information at overall level, and child dashboards with specific information will load on demand.

The major issue in this dashboard design is how we can link between these two dashboards. There are few components which is available to load child dashboards.



To open child dashboard we need to pass CELogonToken to child dashboard. When running in InfoView BOE automatically passes the BOE logon token to the SWF as a Flash Var called CELogonToken.

To use the BOE logon token you need to add a Flash Vars connection in your Xcelsius model.

Add a Flash Var called CELogonToken and bind it to an empty cell in the spreadsheet (say B2).

Export your SWF to InfoView and you should now find that the BOE logon token is appended to the document download URL.

"http://myserver:8080/Xcelsius/opendoc/
documentDownload?iDocID=1234&sKind=Flash&CELogonToken="&B2



Load Dashboard using URL Button

URL Button we can use to open the child dashboards and reports in new window. Also we can send parameters to this URL, which we can use in child dashboard to load data.


Slideshow Component

Using slideshow component we can load child dashboard inside Parent Dashboard. In URL properties we can specify URL of enterprise with token information.
For the Slide Show component, once the image file is loaded, the Slide Show transitions to the image using the transition parameters defined on the Behavior tab.



SWF Loader Component

New web connectivity component is available for loading SWF files at run-time. The SWF Loader component is similar to the Slide Show component, but it is simpler and has better memory management. The new SWF Loader enables you to load both Xcelsius and non-Xcelsius SWF files at run-time. Unlike the Slide Show component, it does not provide transition effects when moving from one file to another and it does not allow you to block user interaction.