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[. . . ] Crystal Xcelsius User Guide Crystal Xcelsius Designer 4. 5 Windows Patents Business Objects owns the following U. S. patents, which may cover products that are offered and sold by Business Objects: 5, 555, 403, 6, 247, 008 B1, 6, 578, 027 B2, 6, 490, 593 and 6, 289, 352. Business Objects, the Business Objects logo, Crystal Reports, and Crystal Enterprise are trademarks or registered trademarks of Business Objects SA or its affiliated companies in the United States and other countries. All other names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. [. . . ] If Connections is available, after you click it you see options such as Consume Row, Send Value, Get Value, and Send list. This means that the visualization is configured to either send information to another web part (Provider) or receive information from another web part (Consumer). These options are discussed in more detail in the Sharepoint Consumer and Sharepoint Provider component sections of this chapter. If a visualization has been configured to receive a value from another visualization, add both visualizations to the page. Click the down arrow on the web part and then click Connections. Crystal Xcelsius User Guide 125 7 Crystal Xcelsius Integration with Sharepoint Xcelsius for Sharepoint Client 5. Click Get value from and select the other Xcelsius Sharepoint Web Part. The two visualizations are now connected. These connections can be configured in many ways to allow for What-If analysis, drilling down to more detailed data, or to allow a user interaction in one visualization to affect other visualizations. Xcelsius for Sharepoint Client The Xcelsius for Sharepoint (XSP) client includes three components. · · · Sharepoint Consumer Sharepoint Provider Sharepoint Param These components are added to a visualization that needs to have parameters defined or that needs to pass or received data from another web part. Sharepoint Consumer Component The Sharepoint Consumer component should be added to any visualization that will accept data from a web part within Sharepoint. There are three important options on the Properties panel of the Sharepoint Consumer component, Name, Range, and Type. · Name Name is user-defined and is displayed when connecting web parts together in Sharepoint. Name is required or the web parts cannot be connected together. · · Range Range is the area on the internal spreadsheet of the visualization that the incoming data will be written to. If another visualization is passing in data, the most likely type to select is cell or row. Table is used to pass data from a Sharepoint list. 126 Crystal Xcelsius User Guide Crystal Xcelsius Integration with Sharepoint Xcelsius for Sharepoint Client 7 Properties The Sharepoint Consumer component is transparent when the SWF file is created, so there is no need to hide it behind other components. It is not selectable or visible in the SWF. Sharepoint Provider Component The Sharepoint Provider Component should be added to any visualization that will provide data to another web part. In this case only Crystal Xcelsius Sharepoint web parts can be used to consume information from a visualization that is using the Sharepoint Provider component. The Sharepoint Provider Component contains the same options as the Sharepoint Consumer components. See "Sharepoint Consumer Component" on page 126 for details about these three options. Properties There are other options on the provider web part that are consistent with other Xcelsius data connectors. The Sharepoint Provider is actually a button rather than a non-selectable component like the Sharepoint Consumer. After selecting what value is going to be passed to other visualizations, the Sharepoint Provider component can be used as a button to pass the information. The information can also be passed dynamically by using the Trigger Cell option on the Behavior tab of the Properties panel. Set the Trigger Cell to be the same cell or range that was defined in the Range on the General tab. This way anytime the value changes it is dynamically passed to other connected visualizations. The dynamic visibility can also be set for this component as it is a button that the designer may want to display at different times depending on the logic of the visualization. Like other buttons, the Appearance tab can be used to set the look of the button. Sharepoint Param Component The Sharepoint Param component allows visualization designers to define parameters that they want the user to customize from within Sharepoint. Different users may want to see the data in different ways. Crystal Xcelsius User Guide 127 7 Crystal Xcelsius Integration with Sharepoint Xcelsius for Sharepoint Client There are three important options on the Properties panel of the Sharepoint Param component: · Name Name is user-defined and will be displayed for the visualization in the property dialog box in Sharepoint. [. . . ] For more information about the Color Selector button, see "Color Selector button" on page 162. Background Transparency For information about this option, see "Transparency" on page 158. Use Custom Color Select Use Custom Color to specify a color for the FSCommand button background: · Default Fill You can customize the default color for the FSCommand button. 292 Crystal Xcelsius User Guide Other Components Reference Appearance tab 19 · Selected Fill You can customize the color for the FSCommand button when it is clicked. To customize a color, click the adjacent Color Selector button. For more information about Color Selector buttons, see "Color Selector button" on page 162. Specific to the Local Scenario Buttons component Text Use the following options to customize the appearance of text in the component: · · · Alignment For information about this option, see "Alignment" on page 159. Font Settings For detailed information about this option, see "Font settings" on page 156 Selected Text Use the Color Selector button adjacent to Selected Text to specify what color you want the button label text to be when the button is clicked by the user. For more information about the Color Selector button, see "Color Selector button" on page 162. Background Use the parameters in this section to customize the appearance of the button label. Show Background This option controls the visibility of the button background. Show Custom Color Select the Show Custom Color check box to customize colors for the following parts of the component: · · Default Fill You can customize the default color of the button. [. . . ]