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Hello Everybody,

My name is Bruno Cavestro and I am a tech geek, passionate inter alia of SAP BusinessObjects customization.
As I discovered SAP Lumira, I immediately fell il love with its extension mechanism.But, as I went trough some blogs and tutorials concerning SAP Lumira extensions coding,I noticed a sort of weird common mindset:
Those tutorials (the ones I bumped into) are a list of orders you have to obey via copy&paste to make the things work ... Yes but ..

"Why?" ...
"Why should I copy this code there?"
"What does this code means?"

Indeed, most of the tutorial are oriented to Javascript programmers with expertise on HTML5 and D3.js who need to take the max out of SAP Lumira.

So if you think that D3 is a typo, and XML is the oversize version of HTML ... well,

You may be interested on reading the tutorials I plan to publish.

Globally, the goal of those tutorial is to be able to give You the possibility to react easily when Your client or Your boss asks You for ... a larger column in the table, a different font on the title or other things that were easy to put in place on Web Intelligence and are now not included in out-of-the-box SAP Lumira ...

So let's start...

I will assume you are using SAP Lumira 1.28 and we will use a standard browser (Chrome is strongly recommended) to create our extension.

We will first navigate to a special SAP web site that will allow us to use the browser as an extension code editor.

This SAP web site is called SAP Web IDE and there are several resources available as the Excellent Cha's "SAP Web Enablement guide" where you can find the login and activation procedure.

Feel free to follow to the provided link but for sake of simplicity here's the steps :

In the browser navigation bar enter the following URL: account.hanatrial.ondemand.com
(or click on Cloud Cockpit);

Now, Click on Register or use your SAP credentials to Log On

If you need to register (please, USE THE SCROLLBAR to scroll through the instructions)

① Fill in the Registration Form and accept the Disclaimer

② You will receive a mail from SAP: CLICK on the activation button

③ A message confirmation windows appears (this may occur in your DEFAULT browser)

④ *If you are not using Chrome while clicking on the Continue* button (see above), close the present browser, open Chrome and follow the log on procedure.**
Btw Congratulation, you've just achieved the task! You have now an account for the SAP HANA Cloud platform. We will now use this account to access the SAP Web IDE.

If you log on (yes, this is the log on procedure) , use your SAP credentials in this form

We are now accessing the SAP HANA Cloud platform cockpit

Here's the welcome message.

Click on Continue ... and ... Here we go! Well ... no... in fact not yet: We are in a cockpit and we have to use it to active our programming environment.

*So ... Ok, let's ignore most of the cockpit : just click on Subscriptions* in the left menu.**

*... and now click the webide* link in the center of the page. We are almost there.**

Here we are... for REAL. The link at the top of the page is your personal special customized link to your one and lonely sap web ide. Are you ready? Are you sure? So ... if you are really ready ... click ...
... Tadah ...