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What’s New in SAP Lumira 1.20 (summary)

And here it comes! SAP Lumira 1.20 is coming to you very shortly. Those of you who are attending SAP TechEd and D-Code in Las Vegas might already be having a taste of this release.

This release cost me some donuts and muffins for the developers.  When I look back, I should have doubled the amount of sugar-high bribe. I had a lot of fun with exciting enhancements they delivered in just over a month since Lumira 1.19 release. Imagine how many more features we would get if I doubled the sugar rush.

Here are some highlights of what you can expect to see in this release.

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Lumira Desktop has been supporting 8 languages for quite some time now.  In this release we add Polish to the list and support all 9 languages to Lumira Server and Lumira Cloud making sure Lumira harmoniously works as one product.  If you would like to see more languages supported in Lumira, please visit Language support category in Idea Place.

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Lumira 1.20 supports a few additional ways to format your numbers.  Continuing from 1.19, you can now add hyperlinks to more objects in your stories and jump to a page within the story.

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This release supports conditional formatting of data in the table control. You can highlight, bold, italicize, or change the fonts depending on the rules you defined. Today I used this feature to review the ideas from Idea Place that have more than 15 votes.

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You will find various other improvements throughout the product. We hope you enjoy Lumira 1.20 and look forward to hearing your experience. At the current pace of delivery, we are tracking to have another release before the year end.

Have a great week!

Sharon

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      Author's profile photo Jens Weisse
      Jens Weisse

      Hello, I have a problem upgrading 1.18.0 Build 1096 - I always get a message (attached)and regardless of whether I choose resume or not, it is not updating the application. Any ideas what to do?

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      Author's profile photo Sae-Won Om
      Sae-Won Om
      Blog Post Author

      Hmm I have not run into that before. I would recommend try uninstalling manually and then installing the latest version.

      If the problem persists, I would recommend submitting a ticket with installation log file. It sounds like something is hanging in the background.

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Sharon - great news! Thanks!

      Please do not forget about - Live Connection to SQL Database - Freehand SQL in Lumira

      https://ideas.sap.com/SAPLumira/D21196

      Author's profile photo Sae-Won Om
      Sae-Won Om
      Blog Post Author

      Thank you Mikhail for the link to the Idea Place.  I will pick that up in the next review.

      Sharon

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      ok, thank you.

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      conditional formatting finally coming...

      Author's profile photo Sae-Won Om
      Sae-Won Om
      Blog Post Author

      Yay! Check!

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Hi Sharon,

      The table behavior is great for conditional formatting !!

      BTW, will you implement this solution to other chart type? (I think point chart should be mandatory because we could show the result in infographic chart directly)

      Best regards

      Alex yang

      Author's profile photo Sae-Won Om
      Sae-Won Om
      Blog Post Author

      Hi Alex

      Glad you like it. We plan to support conditional formatting in charts including numeric charts in the future. I saw an entry in Idea Place for Numeric Chart.  It will go through our regular review cycle and be picked up after the voting minimum is reached.

      Sharon

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Hi Sharon,

      This is really exciting to hear this

      I will vote in the idea place for this

      Best regards

      Alex yang

      Author's profile photo Ryan Gerrard
      Ryan Gerrard

      The conditional formatting features were much needed and working great so far! Thanks!

      Author's profile photo Sae-Won Om
      Sae-Won Om
      Blog Post Author

      Hi Ryan

      Thank you for the feedback! I so needed it after a long week and was thrilled to pass it ont to the team who built it!

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Great tool and very impressive. Are there any plans soon to have an upgrade to save to PDF perhaps?

      Author's profile photo Sae-Won Om
      Sae-Won Om
      Blog Post Author

      Hi Maxwell.

      Yes that is planned in the short term road map.

      Sharon

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      Former Member

      Is that road map available for public consumption? I assume that SAP will enable the storyboard to be published to PDF.

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Hi since the Update to Lumira 1.20 I cant open my Old visualizations I made with Lumira 1.18? Any suggestions ? I also can`t start a new Projekt.

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      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Hi Nawid Sayed,

      i too faced this issue, relaunch the lumira and try opening old visualization it will work 🙂

      thanks

      Pranitha.K.S

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      Former Member

      Hi Pranitha Kedambady Shivappa,

      Thank you for your reply,

      I found a solution to, i had  to delete this Folder:

      C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\SAP\Lumira

      Best Regards,

      Nawid Sayed

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Thank you

      Author's profile photo Ghafoor Nadeem
      Ghafoor Nadeem

      Hello,

      Just updated to 1.20 but my old visualization are not opening, it showing three blue dots running...

      And even after creating new one same thing happening.

      I dint found the this folder name AppData to delete.

      Thanks

      -Nadeem

      Author's profile photo Ghafoor Nadeem
      Ghafoor Nadeem

      got resolved as need to delete the folder for all the users on the server.

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      it's nice to see that SAP Lumira 1.20 came up with conditional and exceptions formatting which is supported by SAP Bex Suite.

      This feature gave one more reason to go for this product.

      Regards,

      Jalpesh

      Author's profile photo Sae-Won Om
      Sae-Won Om
      Blog Post Author

      Thanks for the positive feedback!

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Hi,

      Is SAP Lumira avalable on Mobile devices?

      Author's profile photo Tammy Powlas
      Tammy Powlas

      Using Lumira Cloud or Lumira Server, yes you can access Lumira on Mobile BI/devices

      Author's profile photo Ghafoor Nadeem
      Ghafoor Nadeem

      Hi,

      Really looking forward for the drill down functionality on charts to multiple level down on the story board this will help to showcase the data from top level to bottom four level down on four different chart.

      My users are expecting this features on the storyboard.

      Thanks

      -Nadeem