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Author's profile photo Tammy Powlas

Design Studio 1.2 – A Quick Look

Design Studio 1.2 is available for download on Service Marketplace service.sap.com/swdc

SAP has already posted some tutorials today as well Design Studio 1.2: What’s new in SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.2 is just one example along with many 12 others at Space: SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio | SCN

Universe support

A first look shows you can connect to a Universe – of course everyone tries the eFashion universe:

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I also tried it with an ECC universe and it works.  SAP’s Ingo Hilgefort has emphasized at Reporting 2013 that you can use only single source universes.

Export to Excel

Using the knowledge gained at TechEd, I could do this:

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Above shows the JavaScript code for when you click a button it will export to Excel.

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So after clicking the button you can SAVE or OPEN the document in Excel.

Selecting Measures or “Measure Picker”

This is really binding the key figures you want to show

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Only then will those two key figures appear.

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Also see Design Studio 1.2: Select key figures to display on charts

Filter Navigation

SAP added a “navigation pane” where you can filter and navigate.  This is described in this tutorial:

Design Studio 1.2: Add navigation capabilities to a Filter Panel component

It is very easy to set up and do this – I used it against Solution Manager and filtered on the message component:

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There is much more to add and check out – you can check out the tutorials, TechEd session EA 260 or also check Ingo’s Design Studio Kindle book which will provide free updates to Design Studio 1.2 later.  A book like Ingo’s is good for people such as myself who learn better with a book in front of them.

Today at Reporting 2013 Ingo discussed the SDK’s that will be available with Design Studio including one with the Hichert chart; he will be demonstrating this tomorrow at 11:30 at Reporting 2013 if you are attending.

Also check out the SAP Help has been updated for 1.2 as well. 

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      Author's profile photo Manna Das
      Manna Das

      Thanks for the latest update Tammy.

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Hi Tammy,

      thanks for sharing!

      one small question: What do I have to do to use the SDK within DS 1.2?

      Regards,

      Michael

      Author's profile photo Tammy Powlas
      Tammy Powlas
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      Looks like it is under the menu path Tools > Install Extension for SDK

      Also see the help - there is a separate guide for the SDK and appears to be a sample file to install (I have not done that yet)

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Thanks Tammy!

      Author's profile photo Tobias Maier
      Tobias Maier

      Thanks Tammy ! I installed Design Studio 1.2 but when i try to start it i get the message "An error has occurred. See the log file ..." In the log file i can see something like "Exception while activating instance .... ". Did you get any messages like that ? Are there any special requirements? Regards Tobias

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      Former Member

      Hi Tobias,

      When you have specific questions, it's best to open a discussion thread about it.

      That said, please the the PAM: https://websmp108.sap-ag.de/~sapidb/011000358700001013822013E if you meet the requirements.

      Sjoerd

      Author's profile photo Tobias Maier
      Tobias Maier

      Hi Sjoerd,

      Thanks. We meet the requirements of the PAM. I solved the problem by uninstalling DS, deleting the DS program folders and deleting the Analysis-workspace and Analysis-config folder in the userprofile.

      Regards,

      Tobias

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      Former Member

      Hello Tammy

      in the new version 1.2 - Can the user search a value in a dimesion in a navigation pane ?

      The user sometimes do not know where to find a dimension or value in the hierarchy.

      Qlikview had this attribute, and the user like it.

      thank you

      Ofer

      Author's profile photo Tammy Powlas
      Tammy Powlas
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      Yes, it looks like you can, once you select it

      I had an image to share to show you this but SCN is not allowing me to upload images

      Author's profile photo MANOJ KUMAR
      MANOJ KUMAR

      hi Tammy,


      thanks for sharing!


      regards,

      N.Manojkumar

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      Former Member

      Hello Tammy,

      Wanted to check with you, if its possible to enter comments by the information consumer during their interaction with SAP Design Studio Application. That is comments, that are stored as part of the application, to be viewed by others.


      Regards.


      Arun Wadhawan

      Author's profile photo Tammy Powlas
      Tammy Powlas
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      Arun - I am not aware that this is in the standard functionality but CubeServ offers an SDK that might fit your request.

      See https://store.sap.com/sap/cp/ui/resources/store/html/SolutionDetails.html?pid=0000012411&catID=&pcntry=US&sap-language=EN&_cp_id=id-1391426373772-0

      Author's profile photo Ramkumar Kuzhipully
      Ramkumar Kuzhipully

      Hi Tammy,

      is it possible to export to Excel and print with SAP Design Studio 1.2.

      Regards

      Ram

      Author's profile photo Tammy Powlas
      Tammy Powlas
      Blog Post Author

      You can export to Excel yes in Design Studio 1.2

      Printing - that is a planned innovation per the Roadmap at https://websmp102.sap-ag.de/~sapidb/011000358700000390622012D.pdf

      Author's profile photo Ramkumar Kuzhipully
      Ramkumar Kuzhipully

      Thanks Tammy for quick response.

      is it a good practice to build an application with filtering capabilities with 50000 records and can be filtering be applied on multiple tabs .

      Regards

      Ram

      Author's profile photo Tammy Powlas
      Tammy Powlas
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      Ram - I think you already asked this in the discussion forum?  Like any dashboard application the number of records coming back to the consumer should be small, as a best practice.

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      HI Tammy,

      Is scheduling feature enabled?

      Author's profile photo Tammy Powlas
      Tammy Powlas
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      Not yet - planned for the future