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2054690 - Webdings and Wingdings fonts in Xcelsius/Dashboard

Symptom

Webdings and Wingdings Fonts do not show up in Xcelsius/Dashboards

Environment

  • Xcelsius 2008
  • Dashboard 4.0 SP02

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Create a dashboard with some sample text in Excel.
  2. Bind that Excel Text to Label component to display on Canvas.
  3. Change the font for that Label component to "Wingdings" or "Webdings".
  4. The fonts do not get change when previewing the dashboard.

Cause

This is a FLEX SDK limitation. FLEX 2.0 doesn't support Webdings or Wingdings Fonts

Resolution

This issue is resolved after FLEX has been updated to FLEX 4 in Dashboard 4.0 SP03 onwards.

Keywords

KBA , BI-RA-XL-DSL , Obsolete: Design-Time, Design on Multi-Source , Problem

Product

SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 ; SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius Enterprise 2008