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:

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:

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

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

Only then will those two key figures appear.

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:

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.