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How to make sense of making dashboards in xcelsius

Hello
I am able to use xcelsius and make little bit of things , but when it comes to make a dashboard or make some components work with each other , i usually got stuck there , i know xcelsius works on excel formula base but how to make sense of formulas in excel when making something.When to put formula ? label shld show " This data " but when i hit toggle button " data shld be there which i selected " . I want to ask if you guys can recommend me any website to learn few excel formulas that is needed in xcelsius to make things work , Really thanks in advance


popsolar (BOB member since 2013-05-18)

Hi

Open Xcelsius and press f1 help file. This is enough for you to learn more about Xcelsius.

Cheers,
Judia


judia (BOB member since 2008-06-24)

And

File > Samples.

If you dont understand reading English well…you can look at the Samples. There are many.


Cairmor :us: (BOB member since 2008-06-05)

Thank you , I know how to use xcelsius , But dont know much Excel , can you recommend me someplace to learn excel better and make to sense of formulas. i want to be strong in excel formulas so i can accomplish my requirements


popsolar (BOB member since 2013-05-18)

Not all excel formulae are supported in xcelsius. You’d really be better off working out what you want to do in your dashboards and then figuring out a way of achieving it rather than learning formulae out of context.

debbie

ETA: the formulae I use most often are IF statements, VLOOKUPS and simple CONCATENATION. Occasionally I use NOW() and other date generations and TEXT - but for anything more complex, I do it on the database side instead as it’s faster.


Debbie :uk: (BOB member since 2005-03-01)

Thank you very much for the valueable information


popsolar (BOB member since 2013-05-18)