Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Saving Scenarios in Xcelsius

In most instances, Xcelsius is used to display data, and considered a ‘read only’ tool. But for those occasions where there's a requirement to have data be user-editable and persistent, I hope that the steps outlined below are helpful.

The most common scenarios that I've seen for this are:
  • I want to be able to update my KPI variables occasionally, but don't have them stored in a data-source.

  • I want to be able to have a comment shown on the dashboard that I can update occasionally.

  • I want to perform what-if analysis, and save the scenarios for later analysis.

  • I want to perform what-if analysis, and share this with other users.


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