| Prologue Editorial |
Prologue
 Loren Abdulezer |  Mike Alexander | An Important Message from the Editors of The Xcelsius Journal Over the last two years we have acummulated a wealth of ideas, techniques, and practical solutions in using Crystal Xcelsius. This collection of articles constitute a set of best practices within the industry.
In the months ahead you will see new articles, industry vignettes, and more! PivotTables are the theme for our upcoming issue ...
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| Building Tornado and Spider Dashboards |
Article 017 - Building Tornado and Spider Charts in Crystal Xcelsius
This article shows how Tornado Charts and Spider Plots can be incorporated in Crystal Xcelsius dashboards and visualizations. Such charts can be enormously useful in analyzing data and mathematical models that are complex and can vary in subtle and unobvious ways. This article gives you a peek "under the hood" on how these charts are constructed.
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| Drilling into Multiple Charts |
Article 018 - Drilling into Multiple Charts
The chart drill down functionality found in Crystal Xcelsius Professional enables you to use a chart to drill into more detailed data based on selections made by the user. For example, Figure 1 illustrates this functionality with a simple model that contains a Pie Chart component containing the four year average population for each age group in the US. ...
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| Article 019 - Creating Your Own Traffic Light Components |
Article 019 - Creating Your Own Traffic Light Components
Although Crystal Xcelsius comes out of the box with many appealing and versatile components, it's always fun to come up with new and interesting ways to create your own.
With just a little know-how, it's easy to create something that is both unique and innovative simply by tweaking a few settings on an existing component.
In this article we will do just that by creating what I like to call the Traffic Light component....
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| Article 020 - Building Context Sensitive Help in your Dashboards & Visualizations |
Article 020 - Building Context Sensitive Help in your Dashboards & Visualizations
When you design a dashboard or visualization, you know all its hidden features. But when you distribute it to others, will your target audience immediately know how to use it? Incorporting a help system in your software addresses these issues, but does so at a price. All too often, help systems come in as an afterthought and are difficult to manage because they are typically separate systems grafted on to an already existing and relatively complete system. Fortunately, there are some...
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