What’s New With Visual BI Extensions (VBX) for SAP Lumira Designer Webcast Recap

This was another Visual BI webcast today.  Note I missed parts of the webcast so my notes are incomplete.  If you are not familiar with Lumira Designer 2.1 please join us next week for Jan 31 What’s New in Lumira Designer 2.1? 

Can you format tooltips?  Data labels?  Read below.

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Extensions are built so the customer doesn’t have to code

Reuse data sources, improve performance

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Summary of extensions are shown above

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Extensive legend formatting, tool tips, links, more export options (.JPG)

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Empower end users to change at runtime

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Customizing data labels/tool tips – a common question here on this site, is available in these extensions

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Reuse data sources for charts to improve performance

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Utilities include exporting to PowerPoint, Word, email, etc. as shown above

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Pareto chart is new in 2.2.  Now it has been a long time since I’ve heard of this type of chart, so I looked it up on PMI (Project Management Institute) – a chart that would be very useful.

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Gantt Resource chart type is new, something that will help project managers report on resources.  Project managers are always scrambling for resources, and this should help.

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Configuring chart type per axis, dual axis, multi axis charts are interesting; I do want to revisit my Stephanie Evergreen Academy materials before using.

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Period selectors are a great option for any time-period based application

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Advanced KPI tile features include multiple data sources, and responsive UI

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Features for list/combo box are shown above.

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Above is the roadmap, which is subject to change

Question and Answer (a subset)

Q: Can you change order of measures?
A: yes
Q: Can you create conditional formatting for maps?
A: yes
Q: Are custom grouping/regions available for maps?
A: do not allow as of now

Also please join us for April 3 BI: Effective Data Visualization with SAP Lumira Designer 2.0