Now I need to go in reverse (previously I had posted going from WebI to XLF)
I have a WebI doc…I would like to call a XLF file from WebI and pass values from the report…
Ideally I would like to have a column (e.g. State) in WebI be a hyperlink that would a)call out to the XLF file and b)insert the value of the hyperlinked column into the model…
Hope this makes sense.
raiderfan (BOB member since 2005-09-02)
Neither of these make sense.
XLFs are just used by the designer of the Xcelsius dashboard. What is ultimately used is the .SWF. Since those are self contained, passing parameters is really not possible in either direction.
What you’re trying to do is mimic real dashboarding capability without actually using a real dashboard.
Yes, I said it. Xcelsius is not a real dashboarding product. It’s nice for building nice standalone things. But, it really isn’t integrated with anything. It will be better in R3, but that remains to be seen.
Steve Krandel 
(BOB member since 2002-06-25)
As an FYI - I am currently calling a WebI report from both an XLF file (and yes I know exactly what an XLF is) and a SWF file. Both of these work just fine.
raiderfan (BOB member since 2005-09-02)
Fair enough. I’m not sure what I was thinking regarding calling a WebI report. You’re simply generating a URL using OpenDocument and passing a value from the SWF.
But, I still don’t think there is any way to do this the other way. However, the next release will be built with Flex which should give more flexibility.
Can you explain how the XLF plays in this at all?
Steve Krandel (BOB member since 2002-06-25)
To link to an SWF file, you can use the opendocument() syntax. More details here:
https://bobj-board.org/t/79131
To configure your model to accept any value from the WebI report as a parameter, you need to set up a flash variable. More details here:
http://ryangoodman.net/blog/index.php?c=1&more=1&pb=1&tb=1&title=flash_variables_in_xcelsius
itsmaloy (BOB member since 2007-01-25)