Design Studio 1.3 Release Information

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.3 has been released at 28th May 2014. Here you can find collection of all release information which is available.

Entry Point is the Product Availability Matrix with links to:

• Essentials: PAM Additional Information (direct link)
  • in this document you can find the supported systems for data sources, platform and functionality prerequisites.
• Documentation Site (direct link to Help Portal)
  • at this site all relevant documentation documents are available:
    • What’s New
      • summary of features delivered with this Design Studio release, see
        • What’s New Guide
    • Installation, Configuration, Security and Administration Information
      • Installation guides for BI Platform, NetWeaver and Client deployment, see
        • Section for administration guides
    • Development Information
      • All information for Software Development Kit (SDK) of Design Studio, also with package containing simple components build with SDK as examples, see
        • Developer Guide: Design Studio SDK
        • Design Studio SDK Templates and Samples“
    • Application Help
      • contains documentation for application developers, see
        • Application Designer Guide
    • End-User Information and Additional Information
• Release Notes
  • Release note for Initial Shipment (Note 1948049)
    • this note will also be actualized as soon some important information needs to be published
  • Release note for Support Package Schedule (Note 1760372)
• Link to Download Area:
  • Download of initial package (all software components in ZIP format – separated by deployment type)
  • Download of SP0 per software component (selective download is possible)

Additional Information

• Official product Tutorials at SCN
• Official Road Map – will be actualized soon based on planning of 1.3 release

Important help in case of support – notes which help you and SAP in support process      

Sizing Note

Known Issues and Solutions     Design Studio BI Platform Add-On

• 1942899 – Application Service could not be established after the installation of an SDK component in a distributed environment

     Design Studio NetWeaver Add-On

• 1897054 – SBOP Design Studio: NetWeaver Add-On SP Deployment with JSPM

     Design Studio Client (documentation will follow)

• Installation does not start, currently the solution is to backup and remove 2 folders in user folder:
  • folder: %USERPROFILE%\Analysis-config
  • folder: %USERPROFILE%\Analysis-workspace
• Upgrade Issue from Design Studio 1.1 release with support package smaller than SP3 – solution is to uninstall the 1.1 release first and then make fresh install of 1.2 release.

Feel free to ask any questions related to technical aspects of this release – I will try to answer and actualize this site.