Can end users of a dashboard post comments on a dashboard

[Former Member]

Can end users of a dashboard post comments on a dashboard that others can see? For example, while switching through months of a dashboard, executives could post explanations/comments to highlight business activities. The end users would not be dashboard developers, they would only be end users viewing the dashboard from Infoview.

My assumption is that there would have to be a method to read/write to a database from Xcelsius, does this capability exist?

[Former Member]

I had the same question as the OP and that link above looks like a good option. However, one thing we've been asked is to have security in place so not all users can write/read comments. Is this something we can achieve? I imagine I could extract the user ID to do a verification but not 100% sure how that would work. Any ideas on this would be great!

[Former Member]

Has anyone developed dashboard that posted comments from dashboard to a database? Oracle, Teradata, DB2, or SQL Server?

The solution I am looking for can't be localized, and I doubt XML file to server will be approved solution in our organization.

[Former Member]

Hi CB, you'll need a Java person, but it's fairly simple to get Xcelsius to send XML to a jsp page, and then that page just needs to parse and write the XML to a database.

If you're happy with this 'custom' approach, check out [this post|http://blog.davidg.com.au/2011/03/saving-scenarios-in-xcelsius.html] which should give you a good idea of how to do it. It's a post about saving scenarios in Xcelsius, but the same logic applies to saving a comment in a central location.

Hope that helps.