Does anyone know how to extend the time for a play selector?
I currently have 50 rows of data to display one at a time on the same chart (got this working ok).
The issue is that the play selector time attribute is only for 100 seconds, which means each row only displays for 2 seconds. I want to be able to control how long each row displays for before flicking to the next row.
Is this possible? Any help would be great as I am completely stuck with this issue
I have hunted around for anyone else with the same issue - but I cannot find anything. If this is a limitation of Xcelsius I donât think I can use it, which is a shame because everything else is working well. I have attached my work so that if anyone knows how to extend the play time I would be forever grateful.
If the movement does not have to be automated, have you thought about creating a way for the user to page through the dashboard (kind of like how they do in PDF files)âŚviewing row 1-50 > âŚYou click the arrowâŚviewing rows 51-100?
No I need to display data for a call centre to watch the call stats. This has to loop through the Live data feed all day long. (No human interaction).
No worries, I am still going to use this product for an interim measure, but if anyone knows any good dashboard displays for displaying realtime stats please let me know.
There are other ways to handle this via web services if youâre pulling live call center data (refresh every xx seconds).
But youâre right, the Play Selector could be made more effective. Hereâs a thought for the Xcelsius Developers: instead of âPlay Timeâ controlling the sum total play time, it should control the play time in seconds for each step. This would make more sense and make it more scalable.
Andyafco, that is a good idea, since the number of months of data I display grows each month.
Something else I noticed with the Play Control, is that when I am in Preview mode the CPU Usage of my PC increases incrementally until the Play Control reaches itâs time limit. My PCâs performance is affected, which also affects the fluidity of the play (ie. The play starts to skip increments).
I donât know if you still need help with this I just came across it.
I had this idea of using two play selectors to manipulate this.
You have 50 rows (source)
how about you use one play selector to play through just 10 rows (play selector 1) that references 10 of those 50 rows through an offset formula so you can change the values of these 10 rows with an offset value, and have another play selector (play selector 2) playing through offset values to offset the references of the 10 rows played through (offset the reference by 10) after the time play selector 1 takes to finish going through its 10 rows.
This way you can have 10 seconds per row rather than 2
I donât know if I explained it well enough but I attached an example image of the excel data I tried this with
the formula shown in the image is of cell F5
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