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SCN Design Studio 1.6 SDK Components (ver 3.0)

UPDATE:

If you have upgraded to Lumira Designer 2.0, please go here

Background

Now that Design Studio 1.6 is available, Karol Kalisz and I have taken strides to port over our existing SCN Design Studio SDK Development Community components to the new 1.6 SDK patterns that Reiner Hille-Doering has mentioned here: What’s New in Design Studio 1.6 SDK

I previously mentioned some changes in a blog post here (Sneak Peak – SCN Design Studio 1.6 SDK Components), however I am creating an SCN Document this time so that others can modify this document going forward to keep everything up to date.

 

Why 3.0?  At certain points along the way, we’ve had to make the decision to commit future development to a newer version of Design Studio that means no further support for older versions.  With Design Studio 1.6, many new features along with SDK changes to support the new sap.m mode mean that we must make a clean break.  This means that Design Studio 1.6 is a pre-requisite for anything related to our 3.0 components, just like for our 2.0 components, 1.4 was required.  You can still download the older 1.0 and 2.0 components from GitHub.

 

Download Links

 

Version Required Design Studio Version
Download Link
1.0 Design Studio 1.2 or higher Download
2.0 Design Studio 1.4 or higher Download
3.0 Design Studio 1.6 (Works mostly in Lumira Designer 2.0) Stable | Preview
[NEW] Lumira Designer 2.0 SP2 READ HERE

Source Code

Source Code can be found on GitHub here:

 

GitHub – org-scn-design-studio-community/sdkpackage: SDK Package of SCN Design Studio Community

 

Community Components Blog List/Timeline

 

From most recent to oldest, here is a collection of all blogs by the SCN Design Studio SDK Community team in reverse-chronological order, with certain milestones called out.  You should note that the further back in time you delve, the more primitive, and in same case, irrelevant, some of the older components may be, hence calling out the dates.  Nevertheless, those wishing to see what is possible, or to get source code examples, need look no further than these blog posts written by the SCN SDK Community.

 

 

 

 

Component Library & Documentation

 

We can offer the overview of all components and documentation on functions.

     You can find it here Component List 3.0 – SCN Design Studio Community

Besides the list of components, you can find also “Download” link and instructions how to install. It is better for you to use the ZIP installation (direct links provided above) as this allows you to store the installed ZIP locally. But, github is also having versionized ZIPs – in case your copy is lost.

What Has Changed?


We’ve made all attempts to not disrupt any existing components or properties so your transition to 3.0 shouldn’t be too bumpy.

 

Simplified Categories

 

In order to try to save a little space and keep things tidy, we now have only 4 categories:

 

  • SCN Community BasicsThese are meant for simple interactive/selector-type components.
  • SCN Community VisualizationsThese are meant for components that visualize data, either with a graphic or tabular output.
  • SCN Community PrototypesThis is a catch-all category for either proof-of-concept or ideas that are not fully baked, as well as deprecated components that we aren’t ready to discard quite yet.  Basically this is the ‘wild west’, proceed with more caution here.
  • SCN Community UtilsThis category is for components that at their time, had no need to be on the canvas, however due to SDK limitations technically had to exist there when really their purpose was more for scripting and debug utility.  In today’s world with 1.6, these ideally would become ‘Technical Components’ but in short-term, we’ve preserved them where they are today, perhaps some day we can remove this category and refactor them to true ‘Technical Components’ and free up even more space.

 

M Mode Support

 

With 1.6, SAP has offered up a more official support for UI5 sap.m components.  As a result, existing SCN Community components that are based on sap.m will be supported first in ‘M’ mode, and for a time being in ‘Classic’ mode.  As we see M mode mature hopefully in future versions, people will make the switch to ‘M’ mode for their apps.  You will also see new SCN Community components that we not possible in ‘Classic’ mode before (without ugly hacks) become available now only in ‘M’ mode (such as Switch and Slider and more.)

 

Streamlined Additional Properties Sheet (APS)

Nearly all components, no matter what category or original author, now support an easy to use APS that generates itself.  This means consistent UI for designers, and less time spent by developers in the community to implement, as the APS generation code really takes care of it all for you.  A separate technical document for community developers (old and new) will be posted with the details.


Component Quality

 

We have made many important internal code re-factorings using the RequireJS module pattern which has been an opportunity for us to make a few bug fixes along the way, as well as streamline some old code.  There may be some initial bumps in the road early on with 3.0, but a goal is to re-visit existing components and FIX either bugs or incomplete features in order to make this a more reliable and appealing package for the community.

 

Questions/Comments/Feedback

 

In the past, SCN comments have provided one channel to report bugs or ask for features or provides general feedback and ask questions.  For general feedback and questions, please provide them here on SCN as always, but we’d encourage you to post actual feature requests and bugs on GitHub as an issue so that they can be tracked and not lost in the sea of comments.  This helps you and the SCN developer community.  The place to do this is here:

 

Issues · org-scn-design-studio-community/sdkpackage · GitHub

 

Going forward look for additional new components and more reliable existing components!

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      Former Member

      Hi

       

      I'm trying to use the Bullet chart, but when I add it to the canvas the app just freezes and the component is not loaded, I just keep seeing the loading image

       

      Please help

       

      Shlomi

      Author's profile photo Michael Howles
      Michael Howles
      Blog Post Author

      I can confirm it was broken.  I've fixed it and updated the downloads.  Give it a try now and let me know.

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Hi,

       

      I´m trying to use the Data Top/Flop Chart / Data Leader Board Component in Design Studio 1.6. When I try to enter an URL for a Fallback Image, I get an error message

      "Reference Error" "value" is undefined.

       

      This happens in local mode and also in BIP mode.

      A Report which includes the component worked in 1.5 but now throws the same error in Design Studio 1.6

       

      Thanks a lot.

       

      Andy

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      Former Member

      Hi Mike and co,

       

      Thanks very much for this.

       

      I am starting a new app (with DS1.6) and I am trying to decide between M and "Classic". I am leaning towards the M mode; however I note that in the latest (stable) version of the package the utilities are not available in the component browser. I did find the component manager in the technical components menu, but no others.

       

      Am I looking in the wrong place? If not, are you able to give an indication when the utility components will be available in M mode. I am specifically interested in the Array, Collection, Client Information and Component Manager utilities.

       

      Regards, Pat

      Author's profile photo Martin Pankraz
      Martin Pankraz

      Hi Patrick,

       

      We moved the util components to the technical components because they don't use canvas space. This a new Option since the new Version of the SDK https://scn.sap.com/community/businessobjects-design-studio/blog/2015/11/19/whats-new-in-design-studio-16-sdk

      The SAP standard pdf and global scripts are located there too.

       

      We haven't migrated all of our util components yet. But you will find the Array and the component Manager there already. I will update the repository just now so that the next build will get you the collection and the Client Information too. I did only rough tests therefor we would be grateful if you could let us know if you encounter any issues compared to the behaviour you are used to.

       

      Regards

      Martin

      Author's profile photo Michael Howles
      Michael Howles
      Blog Post Author

      Thanks, Martin - I see you've made the changes.  I have a few to make, too (Change Component Manager and Client Information back to visual components as some people had the need) - I'll rebundle them today along with your changes.

      Author's profile photo Martin Pankraz
      Martin Pankraz

      Perfect Mike and thanks for adding. Another example why we need to try to establish one point of contact like GitHub issues for those requests. Karol keeps asking people but we seem to end up here all the time 😉

       

      Regards

      Martin

      Author's profile photo Michael Howles
      Michael Howles
      Blog Post Author

      Yeah, tracking in GitHub issues helps us not forget them as can happen in SCN comments.

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Point noted Martin and Mike - I'll post questions like this in GitHub issues from now on. Also, thankyou for updating the package so quickly, much appreciated.

       

      Cheers, Pat

      Author's profile photo Michael Howles
      Michael Howles
      Blog Post Author

      M mode has a lot of bugs with non-visual components (Data Source and Technical), I'd wait until at least SP1 if you use those types.

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Oh, that's good to know ! Thanks all for the inputs

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Where can I get the SDK? The help-file says i can download it in the service-marketplace. To do so I need an S-user. Support says as a byDesign-Customer one can not get an S-user.

       

      Many thanks for help

      Author's profile photo Martin Pankraz
      Martin Pankraz

      Hi Markus,

       

      You can just take the stable link from the download links section above and use the DesignStudio client to install using the link (don't click the link itself! You need to paste it on the client install dialog). Our latest deployment runs on top of DesignStudio 1.6. Make sure you grab the correct version for your client.

       

      Regards

      Martin

      Author's profile photo Eric PRADEILLES
      Eric PRADEILLES

      Hi,

      I have created a Dashboard with the a "range slider" and a "KPI View 2.0" from the new SDK Components  3.0. I have a pie chart and a geomap too

      My Dashboard works fine in "Execute locally" mode but into BiPlatform, all the SDK components disapear with errors "web item rangelsider_1 could not be found in current web application" and same think for KPI view "web item kpiview_1 could not be found in current web application".

      My Platform is a BI 4.1 SP6 on Windows 2008

       

      /wp-content/uploads/2016/02/error_webitem_884674.jpgOK_webitem.jpgThank you for your responses

      Regards

      Eric

      Author's profile photo Martin Pankraz
      Martin Pankraz

      Hi Eric,

       

      This most likely means that you didn't upload the SDK extensions to your BIP. Please use your DesignStudio client (Tools -> Platform extensions) to do so. After uploading you will need to restart your APS. You can find a good description for all of this on the DesignStudio documentation.

       

      Kind regards

      Martin

      Author's profile photo Eric PRADEILLES
      Eric PRADEILLES

      Thank you very much...

       

      May be it's a little think to add into a "how to install" ...

      Author's profile photo Michael Howles
      Michael Howles
      Blog Post Author

      How to install is in the User Guide.

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Hi,

       

      Thank you very much for all this.

       

      I downloaded the .zip file for from the 3.0 stable link for DS 1.6, tried installing it in the same way I did for previous versions by following the steps given in SCN Design Studio SDK Development Community

      I have recently upgraded DS 1.5 to 1.6 by installing SP00 for DESIGN STUDIO CLIENT 1.6

       

      I get the following screen after browsing for the zip file and clicking ok.

       

      Could you please help?

       

      Thanks,

      Pranoti

       

      DS_SCN_1.6.PNG

      Author's profile photo Michael Howles
      Michael Howles
      Blog Post Author

      This means you have already installed it (or a prior version) - You can instead perform an update via the Help menu to update the component.  Or, remove the existing version via the Help menu, and then install the newly downloaded one.

       

      I wish SAP would move the Update/Remove to the Tools Menu, and hiding it in the Help window is a bit confusing.

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Thanks for the reply Mike.

       

      I searched ways to uninstall but looks like the Help menu has changed (See below). I am not able to find a way to uninstall the components. Could you please help?

       

      Also, I came across scn questions where it says that DS does not uninstall the components completely and hence does not pick up new components when installed. Do you know if this issue is resolved?

       

      Capture.PNG

       

      Thanks,

      Pranoti

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      Former Member

      Found how to uninstall. Thanks.

      Author's profile photo Karol Kalisz
      Karol Kalisz

      Hi,

       

      the package 3.0 is a continuation of 2.0, so you cannot install both. you need to upgrade.

       

      when you already have installed the 2.0 release, the way to upgrade is:

       

      * either uninstall 2.0 and install new using the menu Tools->Install Extensions

      * go to menu Help->About, Button "Installation Details", select the extensions and press button "Update". for this, you have to place the ZIP at the same folder as the original one was during the installation.

       

      Karol

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      Former Member

      Hi,

      I was trying the MultiComboBox in 3.0, it works fine when executed on local but hangs on BI Platform. After installing the components on the platform I have restarted APS. Is there anything I am missing?

       

      Is this control working for anyone on BIP?

       

      ~ Sudheep

      Author's profile photo Martin Pankraz
      Martin Pankraz

      Hi Sudheep,

       

      Could you be so kind and open an issue on GitHub so that we can keep track of this better? Find the page here Issues · org-scn-design-studio-community/sdkpackage · GitHub.

       

      In addition to that I would like you to be more specific what your error is. Did you install all SCN components to BIP or just the databound ones? Like I said, please move this discussion to GitHub.

       

      I checked the latest version in commons and m mode a couple of minutes ago and it is working good.

       

      Regards

      Martin

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      Former Member

      Hi all,

       

      In M mode on DS1.6, inclusion of the JSON Object component causes Infocharts in the application to stop displaying category axis labels.

       

      I've raised an issue in GitHub, but thought I would also post here in case others come across this problem.

       

      Cheers, Pat

      Author's profile photo Karol Kalisz
      Karol Kalisz
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      Former Member

      Hi guys,

      I am using scn design studio 1.6 sdk components 3.0 on Design Studio 1.6 and works fine. However When I try to run a Dashboard from BI LunchPad I got some erros related to ORG_SCN_COMMUNITY_BASIS_GAUGE

      My question is: how to update this components on my BO BID server? Which is running on 1.6 too.

      What do I have to do to be able to run my Dashboard from BO BI LunchPad without getting error from ORG_SCN_COMMUNITY_BASIS_GAUGE.

       

      If I extract design studio 1.6 sdk components 3.0 on Design Studio 1.6 in some folder of my BI BO BID server does it will work?

       

      Thansk and regards

      Author's profile photo Karol Kalisz
      Karol Kalisz

      Hi Douglas,

       

      you probably have not installed the extensions on BIP. Follow the guide https://websmp201.sap-ag.de/~sapidb/012002523100003685052016E/ds_16SP01_admin_bip_en.pdf, 6.2 Deploying SDK Extensions

       

      Karol

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      Former Member

      hello karol, a consultation on component UI5 Table, as could make the painted cell function to a second column, bone instead of placing the value for the validation and colored cell I wanted to use a second column for example the bugget,.../wp-content/uploads/2016/04/example_929415.jpg

       

      Please if you could tell me how to make the painted cells is dynamic in function to the bugget column, I am very grateful for the answer.

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      hello karol, a consultation on component UI5 Table, as could make the painted cell function to a second column, bone instead of placing the value for the validation and colored cell I wanted to use a second column for example the bugget,.../wp-content/uploads/2016/04/example_929416.jpg

       

      Please if you could tell me how to make the painted cells is dynamic in function to the bugget column, I am very grateful for the answer.

      Author's profile photo Karol Kalisz
      Karol Kalisz

      Hi Fernando,

      we try to transfer issues and enhancement requests to github.

       

      Would you please open an issue there (mark as enhancement)?

      Issues · org-scn-design-studio-community/sdkpackage · GitHub

       

      if possible, add also example (exported app on some CSV data source) - this helps in understanding the context.

       

      Karol

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Hi Karol

       

       

       

      Thank you for responding, the issue It was recorded in github

       

      COLORED IN BASE TO ANOTHER COLUMN IN UI5 TABLE COMPONET · Issue #114 · org-scn-design-studio-community/sdkpackage · Git…

      Author's profile photo Shahzad Khero
      Shahzad Khero

      Excellent

      Author's profile photo Alex Cruickshank
      Alex Cruickshank

      Hi Guys

      I seem to have hit a bit of an issue with the Data Leaderboard component.

       

      When I select Bottom 3 entries it is sorting them as below

      1. Material 1

      Value 30

      2. Material 2

      Value 20

      3. Material 3

      Value 0

       

      I am in fact showing the top 3 materials but the lower the value the better it is.

      SO I selected bottom 3 materials from list but would want the list to be displayed in reverse order? They are labelled 1, 2 and 3 but in-fact I would want number 3 to be number 1 and work backwards?

       

      Any scope to get that into the component or not?

      Author's profile photo Karol Kalisz
      Karol Kalisz

      Hi Alex,

      we try to transfer issues and enhancement requests to github.

      Would you please open an issue there?

      Issues · org-scn-design-studio-community/sdkpackage · GitHub

       

      if possible, add also example (exported app on some CSV data source) - this helps in understanding the context.

       

      Karol

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      Former Member

      Thanks so much it worked.

      Author's profile photo Alexey Kochetkov
      Alexey Kochetkov

      Hello Colleagues.

       

      We have installed SDK Extensions 3.0 (stable version) on Design Studio 1.6 (client side). After that we have uploaded "Design Studio SCN Community Utils" component to the Portal side (notice: we don't use BI Platform as a Portal; we use SAP NetWeaver Java 7.4 SP14 (BI-Java usage type) instead).

       

      Since the SDK Component was uploaded to the Portal, all of our Dashboards on the Portal side had stopped work (when we try to run a Dashboard from the Portal we got some erros; see error logs below). Although it works fine on Design Studio 1.6 client with the SDK Extensions installed (in "Execute locally" mode).

       

      All Dashboards work fine on the Portal side if we do not upload the SDK Extensions to the Portal (or if we remove the SDK Extensions installed on the Portal).

       

      Is it a known issue? Should the SDK Extensions work whith SAP NetWeaver Java platform? (it seems like the cause of the problem is a difference between connection mechanisms of BO BI Platform and NetWeaver Java platform)

      Maybe these SDK Extentions were made only for BO BI Platform?

       

       

       

      Piece of system logs whith error description:

      "com.sap.ip.bi.base.service.connection.impl.ConnectionException: No connection factory found for type com.sap.zen.nw.mastersystem/com.sap.zen.nw.mastersystem."

       

      "Exception thrown: com.sap.ip.bi.base.exception.BIBaseRuntimeException: Error: Template Service could not be loaded!"

       

      "java.lang.ClassCastException: Cannot cast class com.sap.ip.bi.zen.nw.portal.services.landscape.ZenNwConnectorLandscape (loader WCE_PRIVATE_CL_sap.com/com.sap.ip.bi.designstudio.nw.portal@com.sap.engine.boot.loader.ResourceMultiParentClassLoader@4673e64d@alive) to class com.sap.ip.bi.zen.nw.portal.services.landscape.ZenNwConnectorLandscape (loader WCE_PRIVATE_CL_sap.com/com.sap.ip.bi.designstudio.nw.portal@com.sap.engine.boot.loader.ResourceMultiParentClassLoader@4b10121d@unregistered)"

       

      Please let me know if you need some additional information.

      Sorry for my English.

       

      --

      Best Regards

      Alex

      Author's profile photo Michael Howles
      Michael Howles
      Blog Post Author

      Hey Alex,

       

      I wish I could test, however I do not have a NetWeaver deployment to say whether our extensions have ever worked on NW.  Maybe some other community members can weigh in.

      Author's profile photo Karol Kalisz
      Karol Kalisz

      Hi Alexey,

       

      the extensions are working in the portal. you can see discussion Problem: Deploying SDK Extensions to SAP Enterprise Portal.

       

      Your errors are looking like the portal is in inconsistent state after startup


      - ClasCastException on same class can occur only when different version of the same class are still in memory

      - No connection factory issue can be caused by incorrect system configuration.

       

      Please check this:

      is there something missing or unclear in the attachment TroubleshootingSDK.docx of note

       

      1894594 - Design Studio - Support Note for NetWeaver Add-On

      http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1894594


      This sounds similar to what I tried to describe in its attachment.


      Why this happen when you deploy extensions? It is probably the case that different code paths are executed due to the extensions deployment. Also, when you have extensions, you need to assure that the special user BW_SERVICE is configured correctly.


      Karol

      Author's profile photo Taniya Chakraborty
      Taniya Chakraborty

      Hi,

      If we upgrade to a new Service Pack of Design Studio 1.6 (SP2 which is due to be released soon), is there a possibility that components from Version 3 above, used in an exisitng dashboard be adversely impacted in any way?

       

      Thanks,

      Taniya

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      Former Member

      Dear All,

      Today we noticed that method fireEvent doesn't work when Design Studio dashboard is executing on NetWeaver portal.

      Example: Please create new dashboard, add Donut component and add Application.log('whatever"); in OnClick event. Execute the dashboard locally - works correctly, on BO platform - works correctly, on NetWeaver - no error messages, no details in log, but fireEvent doesn't fire our BIAL code.

      I created own simply component which only try to fire event, nothing else, it doesn't work on NW platform.

       

      I see that fireEven is used in many SCN components (Donut, Map, Timeout, BulletChart, Choropleth, Hierarchy, LeafletMap, LocationIntel, DataInterator, ComponentLayouter ...)

       

      Is it know problem? Should I report incident officially?

      or nobody uses Design Studio on NetWeaver?

       

      Thanks in advance.

      Best regards.

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      Former Member

      Important comment. Component "Client Information" also has script event but via fireDesignStudioEvent method. It doesn't work neither. Any idea?

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      fireEvent and fireDesignStudioEvent execute event script in BIAL. The problem is (as I see now) with APPLICATION.alert. Other method/functions work correctly. It happens only on NW.

      Author's profile photo Martin Pankraz
      Martin Pankraz

      Hi Emmo,

       

      For starters lot's of people use the NW deployment option. I just reproduced your problem description. Everything is ok except the APPLICATION.alert method like you said.

       

      I checked the SAP Design Studio 1.6 Application Designer Guide for that http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/AAD16/en/ds_16SP01_user_en.pdf.

       

      This behavior is by design. Read section "34.1.1.2 Error Analysis in Scripting" for reference. In essence you should use APPLICATION.createInfoMessage if you are not debugging code locally.

       

      So you don't have a SDK problem but application use.

       

      Kind regards

      Martin

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Hi Martin,

      "This behavior is by design."

      You are right, thank you for clear explanation, sorry for the confusion.

       

      Best regards,

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Updated the timeline

      Author's profile photo Michael Howles
      Michael Howles
      Blog Post Author

      Thanks, Franck!  It's tough to keep these documents updated so the more help, the better!!

      Author's profile photo Pheno BPC
      Pheno BPC

      Hey guys.

      I installed DS 1.6 SP2 (Latest one)

      1. I downloaded the latest stable https://github.com/org-scn-design-studio-community/sdkinstall/blob/master/releases/stable/org.scn.community.sdk.package_stable.zip?raw=true

      2. I did

      joachein.PNG

      any reason?

      thanks

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      I think the question is whether or not the components are usable for DS 1.6 SP2?

      Can anyone answer this please? If they are not, when will they be?

       

      Thanks

      Author's profile photo Martin Pankraz
      Martin Pankraz

      Hi Pheno, hi Martin,

       

      I just ran the components with the latest client without any problems. Our repository is compliant with the new version SP2. Just so you know SAP promised to be as downwards compatible with the SDK as possible. Meaning there is a very high chance that all versions of our components work with every new Design Studio version. So far there has been no disruptive changes by SAP.

       

      Long story short, you need to try again installing. There must be another reason for your error.

       

      Kind regards

      Martin

      Author's profile photo Taniya Chakraborty
      Taniya Chakraborty

      Hi All,

      One of my colleagues faced the same issue as Pheno has mentioned few weeks back, while he was trying to install the platform extensions after downloading them from the same link. DS Version: 4.1. He got the same error message as Pheno has shared.

       

      However, when I had downloaded the .zip file last March 2016 and installed on my local system/BI Platform (DS Version: 4.1) it worked just fine. I had the downloaded zip file on my local computer and I shared it with my colleague, and he was able to configure this time with no issues.

       

      So, I suspect that there is something wrong with the file that has been uploaded to the github site, can one of the moderators/admins pelase take a look?

       

      Thanks,

      Taniya

      Author's profile photo Martin Pankraz
      Martin Pankraz

      Hi Taniya,

       

      It is possible that the offline install file was corrupt at some point in time. I donwloaded today the most recent files and tested from scratch. The installation works fine.

       

      Another thing I would like to suggest for future reference is to clean up the Design Studio client. Sometimes after lots of install/uninstall actions and/or client restarts jar files can be left over. To rule out that problem you can delete your Analysis-Config folder which will reset your client.

       

      Kind regards

      Martin

      Author's profile photo Agnetha-Kristin Kraus
      Agnetha-Kristin Kraus

      Hey guys,

       

      I was wondering if there is a possibility to install only selected components.

      For a specific application I would only need the rapid prototyping component and the color picker 2.0 if we decide to use them. So it would be nice if there was a way to avoid installing all the other components delivered along with the SDK component package.

      Is there a way to accomplish that?

      Thanks for your help and BR

       

      Agnetha

      Author's profile photo Martin Pankraz
      Martin Pankraz

      Hi Agnetha,

       

      This is not possible out of the box. You would need to clone our GitHub repository and alter the build logic to only incorporate what you need. We are sharing code throughout the components. That is why you can only install complete packages instead of individual components. We value the code sharing over the packaging.

       

      Kind regards

      Martin

      Author's profile photo Agnetha-Kristin Kraus
      Agnetha-Kristin Kraus

      Hi Martin,

       

      thanks for your fast reply.

      Then I think I will stick with installing the complete packages - it's the fastest and easiest way after all.

      BR

       

      Agnetha

      Author's profile photo Martin Pankraz
      Martin Pankraz

      Just out of curiosity, what is it exactly that disturbs you so much to have the other components too? Could you elaborate a little on that?

       

      Kind regards

      Martin

      Author's profile photo Agnetha-Kristin Kraus
      Agnetha-Kristin Kraus

      Sure: Imagine the scenario that I want to insert one of your components in an application after having installed the complete packages.

      I perform a right-click on the layout folder, choose "create" and I can see three new folders: SCN Community Basics, Utils and Visualizations.

       

      The problem arising is that I don't know in which folder the component is located. So I start browsing the folders. The first one feels like it contains 40 components, the second one about 10 components and the last one like 20 components. Of course these numbers are probably a bit exaggerated, but it's just the initial feeling I get when I open the folders.

       

      Fortunately the components in the folders are sorted alphabetically. So if I remember the component's name correctly, I have not sooo much trouble finding it. If I do not remember the name, I have to start browsing... Of course, as you know, users are always impatient.

       

      Still, this variety of components just strikes me down whenever I open the folders and it feels like I have installed about 90% of components that I actually don't really need. So my mind starts wondering what all the components that I never used are for (of course only if their names are not obvious like "color picker" ) etc. and suddenly I feel the strong need to tidy up.

       

      But this is just my impression. That's why I asked if there is a possibility to install only the components I plan on using..

       

      BR

       

      Agnetha

      Author's profile photo Martin Pankraz
      Martin Pankraz

      Thanks Agnetha for being so detailed about my question. When it comes to finding components maybe check the filter input box above the folders? That works pretty neat. the same goes for finding components on the outline tree for messy dashboards.

       

      I do get your feeling to tidy up though.

       

      Thanks for sharing.

       

      Kind regards

      Martin

      Author's profile photo Sachin Joshi
      Sachin Joshi

      Mike,

       

      I'm confused on how to install the scn community visualizations as well as scn community utils.

       

      Any pointers appreciated ..I'm on Release 1.6 (Version 16.0.5)

       

      SJ

      Author's profile photo Karol Kalisz
      Karol Kalisz

      Hi Sachin,

      open the link Component List 3.0 - SCN Design Studio Community, press teh button "Free Download 3.0" and choose "Offline" - then you will get the ZIP and short step-by-step for installation.

      Karol

      Author's profile photo Sachin Joshi
      Sachin Joshi

      Thanks Karol for your prompt reply.

       

      But help me in installing the new components. I'm stuck.

       

      SJ

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Hi,

       

      Can you please explain how exactly are you stuck ?

      Upon downloading the archive, you should start DS, go to Tools > Install Extensions (and not CVOM), choose "From Archive", select the downloaded zip file, check the components, and press next/accept until the end. Restart DS, should be ok.

      Author's profile photo Sebastian Röhl
      Sebastian Röhl

      Hi all,

       

      can you please check if the Fiori Slider (part of the Community Basics) is broken?

      I did a simple setup where the current value of the slider was supposed to be passed on to a text.

       

      However only the inital value is forwarded. The current value will never be displayed.
      The coding I used on the Slider for the 'onChange' Event:

       

      TEXT_1.setText(Convert.floatToString(FIORISLIDER_1.getValue()));

       

      Best regards,
      Sebastian

      Author's profile photo Martin Pankraz
      Martin Pankraz

      Hi Sebastian,

       

      Thanks for reaching out to us. I adjusted the code on our preview release branch. You can update your components using the zip from here:

       

      https://github.com/org-scn-design-studio-community/sdkinstall/blob/master/releases/preview/org.scn.community.sdk.package…

       

      Going forward we would like you to open issues on GitHub for any component problems for better tracking on our end.

       

      Kind regards

      Martin

      Author's profile photo Sebastian Röhl
      Sebastian Röhl

      Hi Martin,

       

      thanks for your quick solution. I will have a look at the preview package.

      Next time it will be an issue on GitHub.

       

      Best regards,

      Sebastian

       

      Edit: Tested the new package and can confirm the issue has been resolved. Thanks a lot Martin!

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Hello All,

      I am using Design Studio 1.5 version. I am unable to open one report which gives error to first install Design Studio SDK Extension Sample KPI Tile on my local system.

      This extension is already available on Platform. However I am unable to install the same on my local machine.

      Would you please help me with the solution to install this extension.

      Regards
      Priyanka

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Hi All,

      I have now also found zip file for KPI tile, however when I try to install it on Design studio local machine, it gives below error.

      How can i install KPI tile on my machine.

      Regards,
      Priyanka

      Author's profile photo Martin Pankraz
      Martin Pankraz

      Hi Priyanka,

      This is not the right place to ask that question since your problem is not related to our repository content. Please open a new question for that.

      Regarding your error, the message is telling you that Design Studio could not find a SDK extension on your zip file. The person who deployed on BIP must be able to provide you the correct zip file.

      In addition to that you could read section 3.3 of the design studio developer guide on how to create an installable design studio extension. That way you will be able to create a valid zip from the standard SAP kpitile example.

      Kind regards
      Martin

      Author's profile photo Fabien AUBERT
      Fabien AUBERT

      Hi Guys,

      Did you see that with the new SCN many links are broken ?
      For instance https://archive.sap.com/documents/docs/DOC-62281 (SAP UI5 Table) or https://archive.sap.com/documents/docs/DOC-61450 (Client  Information Component)

      Kind Regards

      Fabien

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Hi All,

      Many links are broken when migrated to new SCN.

      can some one help me with the Calendar Component.
      Design Studio SDK: Calendar Selector Component

      Thanks,
      Kumar.

      Author's profile photo Alexander Oertel
      Alexander Oertel

      Hi,

      I'm testing the DATERANGESCROLLER and I have a question about it:

      I have an application that changes the viewType of the DATERANGESCROLLER using a DROPDOWN BOX. The change of the viewType works fine. But with the change of the viewType I want to immediately change the filter on a datasource, too. This does not work. I have to click the DATERANGESCROLLER first.

      Example:
      1.) ViewType MONTH, DATERANGESCROLLER shows "January 2017", data source is filtered on 01/01/2017 - 01/31/2017

      2.) Now I change viewType to "Week", DATERANGESCROLLER shows "January 2 - 8, 2017" immediatly but data source still filtered on 01/01/2017 - 01/31/2017

      3.) Click DATERANGESCROLLER and apply filter to data source.

      So filtering a datasource with DATERANGESCROLLER.getStartDate() and DATERANGESCROLLER.getEndDate() only works after clicking the DATERANGESCROLLER once.

      Is there a way to automatically change a data source filter when the viewType is changed?

      Thank you for your comments,
      Alexander Oertel

      Author's profile photo Alfons Gonzalez Comas
      Alfons Gonzalez Comas

      Some can confirm if components (release 3.0) work fine on 1.6 SP4 ?

       

      thx

      Author's profile photo Michael Howles
      Michael Howles
      Blog Post Author

      They do.

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Hi,

      I used @karol.kalisz Simple Date object extension during building my Deign studio application(DS 1.6)

      https://archive.sap.com/documents/docs/DOC-57391

      but after finishing my application I could not add this extension to BI platform.

      any suggestions please?

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Hi Martin Pankraz,

      How are you doing...

      I need small help, we are using SDK component in BO 4.1 SP7, now we are planing to upgrading system to BO 4.2 SP4, Please let me know SDK compatible with new version of BO server.

       

      Thanks,

      Sreeni.

      Author's profile photo Michael Howles
      Michael Howles
      Blog Post Author

      They appear to work fine in my experience.

      Author's profile photo Cesar Buendia Rios
      Cesar Buendia Rios

      Hi all.

      I installed the components on my Design Studio Client 1.6 SP5 Patch 2 and used KPI Tile component, when execute the application in local mode all work fine but when try my application in sap netweaver portal show me two messages, one alert message "item de web KPITILE_1 not found in web application and one warning message ""ORG_SCN_COMMUNITY_BASICS_KPITILE" couldn´t be generate. Basis team consult TroubleshootingSDK document find a posible solution but continue the problem.

       

      Any idea. Thaks

       

       

      Author's profile photo Audrius Patalauskas
      Audrius Patalauskas

      Hello, Mike,

      your bring your own data source component is best! I use it throughout to merge and  manipulate data for charts or other things. I`ve recently updated to Lumira Designer SP2, and even though SAP said that custom sdk components will be compatible and work without issues. It woulds seems that it is not the case for BYO. Then i try to use the addRow() method it throws script errors ReferenceError: “balanceDimension” is not defined. () . Has anyone had any luck with making this component run on Lumira designer ? And are there any plans to port these community sdk to Lumira designer ?

      Thank you

       

      EDIT: 

      i poked around in the source code for the component that was throwing the error

      in the contributions.ztl i`ve changed var dims = balanceDimension(dimensions).split(",");

      to var dims = this.balanceDimension(dimensions).split(",");

      and while(dims.length<kfIndex){ to while(dims.length<this.kfIndex){

      recompiled the package installed it as Lumira designer 2 sp2 extension, reports started to work, installed on platform bpi lumira addon 2.0 sp2 and they started to work on the BI launchpad as well.

      Though i have no idea why that worked or if its even a valid solution 🙂

      There also seems to be this kind of an issue with data iterator component in getRows() method.

      String balanceDimension(/*Dimensions*/String dimensions){*
        var dims = dimensions.split(",");
        while(dims.length>this.kfIndex){
        dims.splice(dims.length-1,1);
        }
        while(dims.length<this.kfIndex){
        dims.push("#");
        }
        for(var i=0;i<dims.length;i++){
        if(dims[i]=="") dims[i]=="#";
        }
        return dims.join(",");
        *}
      void addRow(/*Dimensions*/ String dimensions, /*Measures*/ String measures, /*Overwrite*/ optional boolean overwrite){*
        if(overwrite) deleteRow(dimensions);
        var dims = balanceDimension(dimensions).split(",");
        var kfs = measures.split(",");
        var rows = this.data.split("\n");
        var columnCount = 0;
        var newRow = dims.join(",") + "," + kfs.join(",");
        rows.push(newRow);
        var newRows = rows.join("\n");
        this.data = newRows;
        *}
      Author's profile photo Michael Howles
      Michael Howles
      Blog Post Author

      Audrius,

       

      Thanks for this detailed feedback.  While most of what I tested in the 2.0 beta was working with these components, I did not have the time to test all script APIs.  I will create a fix and update the community package.  Thank you so much for digging into it.

      Author's profile photo Henry Taylor
      Henry Taylor

      I've posted this in the Issues on GitHub, but after reading the Questions/Comments/Feedback section above, I think maybe I should have put it here.  Sorry for the double post.

      I'm trying to internationalize a dashboard we've built in DS 1.6 SP4 Patch 2. We're using the 3.0 SCN SDK components.

      I am returning dates from a Datastore. The date format coming back is determined by the locale I set for myself on the BI Platform. If it's English, the date comes back e.g. 06/01/17 for Jun 1, 2017. If I change my BIP locale to Portuguese (Brazil), the date comes back as 01/06/17.

      I wrote the dashboard to take the returned date and use the substring method to parse out the day, month, and year, which I then pass into the initialize method to get a REALDATE object. This method obviously won't work when the parts of the date string are in different places. I cannot find a way around this. Even using the getDay, getMonth, and getYear methods that are part of the REALDATE internals return the wrong values. Is there any way to use REALDATE to overcome this? Or any other method? Most of what I see from a Google search have to do with converting the current date, which isn't my situation.

      I guess I'm just wondering if there's a method in REALDATE, or some other component, somewhere that I'm missing, that deals with the different date formats.

      Author's profile photo Pranoti K Gaddamwar
      Pranoti K Gaddamwar

      Hi Everyone,

      Thank you for your efforts to keep the post updated.

      I downloaded the code for version 3.0 from the link from the post https://github.com/org-scn-design-studio-community/sdkpackage . While unzipping, I get the below error. If I press enter, similar error pops up for another file. If I keep pressing enter till the end and add the projects in eclipse, some of the .js files (eg. PropertyPage.js) are missing from the projects (last pic below). Due to this the components are not rendering.

      Have you seen these errors before? Could you help to resolve this?

      image

      image

      image

      image

      Regards,
      Pranoti

       

      Author's profile photo Ali Raza
      Ali Raza

      Hi, I’m working on SDK design studio. I want to build a dynamic data table with the feature of changing columns header dynamically. I checked advance datatable I have to create the exact same table. I want to set the titles of the columns from the component menu. I need a guidance how I can add this facility in your Advance datatable component.

      can you clear me one thing is it possible to design this table in the HTML file and manipulate with this table in the component.js file? if is there any other approach that is best for this kindly elaborate it.

      Author's profile photo AJ Y
      AJ Y

       

       

      I am working on a dashboard that’s utilizing some components from Custom SDK 3.0 stable.   Everything works fine in local mode but the dashboard doesn’t display anything on BIP.    Custom SDK components are installed to BIP as well.   I am on BI 4.1SP.  Developed the dashboard in local mode utilizing Design Studio 1.6SP4.  But on BIP, I am using Design Studio 1.6SP5 to make modifications.   BIP has Design Studio 1.6SP2 though.

      I created a new dashboard to replicate the issue, while doing that, it turns out KPI Tile2.0 that I am using doesn’t display the radial micro chart.  All other components are displaying fine.    Also worth noting is that the graph within the KPI Tile works fine.  It is the radial micro chart that’s not displaying.    I believe the micro radial chart was developed by @karol.kalisz  so you may have some in sight into this?

      Any help into this will be appreciated.

      Radial Micro Chart

      https://sapui5.hana.ondemand.com/sdk/#/api/sap.suite.ui.microchart.RadialMicroChart

       

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      Former Member

      Hi,

      I have been trying to get following things working with SAP Design Studio 1.6 SP05:

      • UI5 Table
      • MultiComboBox

      Background: We need to have conditional formatting and sorting by columns (individual). Standard crosstab doesn't provide this functionality. Our data source is Universe.

      So, I downloaded the SDK 3.0 and successfully tried my design and workflow that I require in original app. It worked for a while and then starting giving following issue:

      Everything goes white or in stealth mode (rendering issue I believe) and I can't view or edit components directly. Although I can view this components when running the app. Just wondering if anyone seen this issue before:

      // I can't see custom components even though they are set to visible

      // When app runs locally then I can see them

      // When I run it on BI Platform then I can see them

      Any suggestions would be really appreciated.

      Regards

      Angad

       

      Author's profile photo Pankaj Srivastava
      Pankaj Srivastava

      Hi Michael,

      Just following through your post regarding a situation that I'm stuck with, getting the below error messages while opening an Analysis Application in Production Environment:

      The Application "JumpCompanyDashboard" contains components from the following unavailable Design Studio Extensions:

      - org.scn.community.prototypes, Required Version: 3.0, Installed Version: <none>

      - org.scn.community.basics, Required Version: 3.0, Installed Version: <none>

      To open this application, you first need to install or update the listed extensions.

      Application Name - Jump Company Dashboard

      And Sometimes, while opening this application, it shows the below error message:

      "The Application "JumpCompanyDashboard" has been created with a newer version of the design tool. To open this application you need to install the latest version of the design tool."

      No Support from SAP, as I can understand that Design Studio has been upgraded to SAP Lumira, and DS has already reached its EOL. But we need to refresh this application anyhow and save it back to the repository.

      Because it seems that the data connection used in it, is not working fine now, and to fix it, we at least need it to open in DS-Client Tool, refresh it there and save it to the BO repository.

      Would request you to please help/guide me to fix the issue, you would be a life savior.

      Environment Details:

      SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.2 SP02

      SAP Design Studio - 16.7.0

       

      Thanks and Regards,

      Kamal