Trying What is New in Lumira Discovery 2.1
I recapped here what is new with Lumira 2.1 and it was GA yesterday. I started with our overall 2016 ASUG BI webcast statistics:
Forecasting is Back in 2.1
How about adding a time series chart?
And adding a trendline?
To forecast future periods of webcast attendance, right click and edit the trendline setting:
I can “predict” the next three months of webcasts:
Hopefully it will not trend down as Lumira predicts. Usually in the middle of the year, around ASUG Annual Conference, attendance at webcasts spikes due to new product announcements. In the Fall of this year we had two face-to-face events and in those months we typically have fewer webcasts.
Filter by Measure
In Lumira 2.0 you could only filter by dimension, not measure.
In 2.1 you can filter by measure. Note that filter on measure not available for HANA Online
BW Online End to End
With Lumira 2.1 add-on and BI4.2 SP05, you do not need the Lumira Discovery client to begin visualizations with BW Online data sources
Start with Lumira on the BI Launchpad:
Select SAP BW, and it will recognize the OLAP connections from the CMC:
I am going to select a BEx Query from the SAP NetWeaver Demo model:
You can start building visualizations and charts from the BEx query using the BI Launchpad
You can set up conditional formatting
Set up a rule to as shown below:
If the country equals US, display it in a certain color and apply it
You can set up multiple rules
The above shows the conditional formatting rule applied
Linked Analysis
You can set up linked analysis, to pass the context from one visualization to another
Right click and select Linked Analysis
Setting up a linked analysis from the cross tab to the bar chart, using dimension Country:
Selecting country US from the cross tab displays the California/New York bars of the bar chart:
Enable Ad-Hoc Data Comparison
Another new feature is enable ad-hoc data comparison; you can “lasso” or select the bars to compare
It will give you the summary shown above – the sum of values, average, max, min, etc.
Unified Viewer/Launchpad
Your Lumira document is a tile in the unified Fiori-like launchpad, similar to functionality featured for Web Intelligence in BI4.2 SP4
Please note you must be on BI4.2 SP05
The following notes can provide additional information on the BI4.2 SP5 release content:
2559203 – SAP BI Suite 4.2 SP5 Support Package Update Guide
2559223 – SAP BusinessObjects BI Suite 4.2 SP5 Release Restrictions
2559136 – SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 4.2 SP5 Installation Guides for Windows and Unix
2559176 – SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 4.2 SP5 Upgrade Guide
2559149 – SAP BusinessObjects BI Suite 4.2 SP5 What’s New
Upcoming Items of Interest
You can learn more here:
Hi Tammy,
It is a good overview. Do you know something about commentary? It was in the roadmap for 2.1 (2017)
Kind regards
Brian
Brian - Commentary is part of Lumira Designer 2.1 - see https://blogs.sap.com/2017/12/17/trying-what-is-new-in-sap-lumira-designer-2.1/
Hi Brian,
Great blog was released last week on commentary in Lumira Designer:
https://blogs.sap.com/2018/01/29/comments-functionality-in-sap-lumira-designer/
With kind regards,
Martijn van Foeken | Interdobs
Hi Tammy,
thanks for the summary new features of lumira discovery 2.1. It's an good overview. Do you know, where I can find the document, how to configurate Single sign on for Lumira discovery 2.1?
Kind regards,
Hai
Hey Hai,
I have found this SAP note: 2531433 - How to configure Single Sign On (SSO) in Lumira Discovery 2.0
It is not especially for version 2.1, but maybe it helps?
Best,
Marcus
Hi Hai,
A great blog has been released about this topic:
https://blogs.sap.com/2018/01/12/lumira-2.1-x509-based-single-sign-on-support-with-bi-platform/
Has some resource links in it as well.
With kind regards,
Martijn van Foeken | Interdobs
Hai - I can't seem to find anything on that; I recommend asking this as a question under answers.sap.com using the BI platform tag. If I find anything I will post back here.
Thanks !
Thanks for your information,
I have just a question, when 3D Column chart will be available in Lumira 2.1 ?
Hi Damien - before looking at 3-D charts, please see if you should really use them: https://www.perceptualedge.com/blog/?p=2362
If you still need them, I would look at the SAP App Center for Lumira third party add-ons:
https://www.sapappcenter.com/home#!category/517
Hi Tammy, Thanks for this Blog
Question for Lumira 2.1: Can you confirm that if you user "Import" as Datasource and connect to a BEx Query, then you are able to:
I'm asking because I cannot do this in my installation of Lumira 2.1
/Regards, Peter
Peter - looks like you are right
What is interesting is I can't seem to locate this in any documentation...good observation
Found out what was the problem was: I did not understand how functionality was used. ( = it works)
Hi Peter,
I am using "BW Import" and connected to a BEx Query, both Filter on Measures as well as Trend line on Time Series chart were working fine for me.
Regards,
Hari
Hi Tammy,
We recently trialed Lumira 2.0 SP3 but in the Discovery tool we lost some capabilities for existing content. Main two issues are;
- Controls no longer work with linked data sets
- Drill Down doesn't work with Geo-Maps
Any idea if these issues were fixing in 2.1?
Cheers
Ben
Hi Ben,
I can confirm that Drill Down in Geo Maps works in Lumira 2.1 (tried it with Discovery).
With kind regards,
Martijn van Foeken | Interdobs
Hi Tammy,
Question for Lumira 2.1 Discovery, can you confirm that SAP added "Cascading Filters" and "Conditional Formatting" (can I use another dimension to define criteria instead of a static value).
Regards,
Satish
Should Linked Analysis work with a Geo chart? I don;t see the option on this chart type.
Hi Brad - I haven't had time to give it a try...
Hi Tammy,
Would Lumira Discovery 2.1 or/and 2.0 support key&text for dimensions from SAP BW and HANA Views?
Tx for the info,
Jan
Hi All,
Could you please confirm how important a consultant should have knowledge on JAVA SCRIPT to work on Lumira 2.0
For Lumira Discovery, no knowledge of JavaScript is required
Thanks for the qucik reply Tammy.
Could you please clarify on Lumira Designer also. Is Java Script rquired for Designer.
Below is my assumption please correct me if i am wrong.
For older version of design studio like 1.5 Scripting knowledge is rquired from Lumira 2.0 onwards no need of Scripting knowledge.
Regards,
Srichand
Scripting is helpful but not required - it depends on use case and persona. For power user, maybe not. There is also a scripting wizard in case you are not familiar with JavaScript
Tammy, Thanks for the helpful answer.
Tammy, Thanks for the blog.I am confused when SAP says Lumira and Design Studio are now combined in to Lumira Designer but I don't see such. I see Discovery and Designer two separate tools. In Designer I did not see anything like prepare, visualize and compose the old way or just stories. Am I missing anything? Or would it be accurate to say that Lumira 2.0 is more in line with Design studio rather than discovery 1.31. Thanks.
Hello - thank you for reading/replying
It is 2 front ends (Discovery, Designer) but one backend on the server
I encourage you to take the free online Lumira Course by OpenSAP at https://open.sap.com/courses/lum1
They cover it in detail.
Thanks Tammy