Any ways to draw a diagonal line in Xcelsius 2008? Ideally an arrow (but that’s probably a bit ambitious…).
I’m trying to replicate a flow diagram and a diagonal would be so much easier than hundreds of bitty verticals and horizontals joined together!
Debbie
Debbie 
(BOB member since 2005-03-01)
Why not just use an image?
Otherwise, I think you’re out of luck.
Lugh (BOB member since 2009-07-16)
An image won’t give me what I need. But I managed to fudge it and it doesn’t look too bad!
Deb
Debbie (BOB member since 2005-03-01)
What did you end up doing? A jagged approximation?
Lugh (BOB member since 2009-07-16)
Made the text boxes bigger and filled in. Then just did horizontal lines underneath text boxes, so one line continued right through. Couple of verticals to join them together and I’m actually surprised how good it looks. % at each level, plus a trend icon to show whether up or down from same YTD figures last year and I’ve quite impressed myself!
But then I’m easily pleased by pretty things…
Debbie
Debbie (BOB member since 2005-03-01)
You could use a basic line chart with a simple series to get the diagonal, then just hide all of the other visual effects… 
cdavies (BOB member since 2005-01-28)
Wow. That’s kind of a cool idea. Because you could even move the line based on changing selections on the dashboard that way.
Lugh (BOB member since 2009-07-16)
Works quite nicely. I’ve also used a Radar chart to create a triangle.
cdavies (BOB member since 2005-01-28)
Clever idea. Annoys me that there’s no basic components that do this, though. I just wanted a simple organisational tree.
Ah well. I expect my days with xcelsius are numbered anyway. Nice to create SWFs but the way the product is developing, we’ll need licences for every access through the SAP portal which will make it prohibitively expensive. It’ll be Microsoft & SharePoint all the way very soon …
Debbie
Debbie (BOB member since 2005-03-01)