Link: http://myxcelsius.com/2009/07/06/customize-your-xcelsius-dashboard-with-the-export2excel-solution-from-clearpeaks/

If you like to export you Xcelsius data to Excel from a runtime dashboard there is a great add-on for the Tomcat application server provied by ClearPeaks www.clearpeaks.com.
This solution named Export2Excel is free and can be downloaded here.

The configuration is quite easy.

1. Download the WAR file
2. Copy the ExportToExcelv2.war into your Tomcat webapps folder
3. Restart Tomcat application server
4. Run Xcelsius
5. Open Data Manager
6. Add XML connection
7. Set the XML Data-URL to http://servername:port/ExportToExcelv2/index.jsp
8. Configure the “Enable Send” funcion, which contains the dataset you like to export to Excel.
9. Be sure that you type URLDummy as the Name of the "Enable Load", and that the Range contains just one cell. This cell is the URL of the exported Excel file.
10. Now you can implement a button to your dashboard, which exports the configured dataset to excel.
11. Last but not least you may add a button to call the URL, where the exported excel file resists.

There is also something similar from Centigon Solutions Inc. called Xport Wizard, which handles more output formats, but is not for free: http://www.centigonsolutions.com/xportwizard/index.html

Maloy Manna a.k.a. biguru has also described on his Blog, how to implement this method on a .NET application server:
http://biguru.wordpress.com/2008/04/26/export-data-out-of-your-xcelsius-dashboards/

Have fun...

If you are very familiar with the following error message, here might be the quick fix you are looking for:

First of all you should try to optimize your virtual memory settings. During Export or Preview Xcelsius needs a lot of memory for conversion of Excel logic to ActionScript.

I recommend to set the virtual memory to a fixed value (no range) twice as large as windows recommends. The advantage of a pagefile with fixed size, is that the system does not have to dynamicly resize the file during runtime. As you can see below i set my pagefile to a fixed value of about 8GB.

Well this is just a Quick-Fix. For those, who like to go much deeper into the pagefile-topic and like to perform a professional pagefile optimization, i recommend reading the following article of "The Elder Geek":

http://www.theeldergeek.com/paging_file.htm

Regarding version: Xcelsius 2008 SP1, MS Excel 2003


What a nice feature. You can export your Xcelsius SWF with one click to a PowerPoint file which hosts an embedded Flash. But what if Xcelsius crashes when you try to export to PowerPoint??

This issue seems to be a problem with the program stack memory. So here is a workaround that might help sometimes:

Run Xcelsius via "Command Line Interface" instead of double-clicking on the shortcut of Xcelsius or your Xlf-File and open your file using the Menu File->Open.