Velixo NX minimum requirements and usage notes

Overview

Velixo NX is the next generation of Velixo reporting - built using the latest extensibility technologies available in current versions of Excel and Microsoft 365 for Windows, Mac, and Web versions of Office.

Most requirements echo those for Microsoft Excel.

Minimum OS/Software Requirements

OS	Windows 11, Windows 10 SAC, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2016 or higher Mac OS Monterey (v12.3 or higher)
Browser	For Mac: Safari version 15.4 (or higher)
Excel	Velixo requires a modern version of Excel and supports the following platforms: Excel for the web Excel for Windows M365 subscription (see the Limitations for perpetual / one-time-purchase Excel for Windows licenses section below) Excel for Mac
MS Account	A Microsoft Account is required to be able to install and use Velixo NX

Limitations for perpetual / one-time-purchase Excel for Windows licenses

Velixo NX does not guarantee compatibility with perpetual (one-time purchase) versions of Microsoft Excel, such as Excel 2021, and strongly encourages you to switch to a subscription-based Office 365 product.

Velixo NX is built on the modern official Office extensibility framework, Office.js. The framework is rapidly evolving and as such, requires Excel application itself to always be up-to-date to support the latest API interfaces and bug fixes. For the interactions required by Velixo NX, Office.js may depend on Excel API interfaces that are simply not supported by older one-time purchase versions of Microsoft Excel.
There are known compatibility issues that Microsoft does not plan to fix even in recent (2021) one-time purchase versions of Microsoft Excel.
Furthermore, Excel 2019 and earlier lack the support for dynamic array formulas and new functions introduced in recent years, which are extensively used in report templates and training materials on this website.

Minimum System Requirements

Processor	Intel or AMD processor 1.6 GHz or faster (2-core)
RAM	4GB or more (2GB for 32-bit)
Hard Disk	4GB of available disk space

Velixo NX Considerations

Velixo NX is the next generation of Velixo reporting - built using the latest extensibility technologies available in current versions of Excel 365 on Windows, Mac, and on the web. Each platform (Mac, Online, and Windows) has its own advantages.

Miscellaneous Velixo Features

Velixo NX supports Universal Writeback.
Velixo NX includes the WORKBOOKLASTREFRESHBY and WORKBOOKLASTREFRESHDATE functions.
Velixo NX supports Sage Intacct Smart Links.

Velixo NX supports distribution lists through Velixo Tools (Windows only).

In-browser large dataset limitation

Excel for the Web uses web browsers for displaying data.

With this product, there is a 5MB limit to the amount of data that can be returned/displayed by a single function. While the number of rows that can be displayed by a Velixo function is also dependent upon the number of columns returned, we have found that this limit translates to somewhere between 25000 and 50000 rows.

Speed Comparison

The time necessary to run a report will vary depending on the platform being used.

Using a desktop version of Excel (Windows or Mac) is always encouraged over Excel Online, due to a number of limitations that apply to the Microsoft Office framework on a browser platform.