Work-Around for Design Studio classic SDK controls in M mode

[Karol-K]

This short blog is about activation of the "classic" controls in scn-design-studio-sdk-development-community for use in "M" mode of design studio.

Why? in the transition mode to M it may be usefully to use old classic controls in M mode.

It is not recommended to make it long term, because technically there is no warranty that this will work forever.

What is needed to do?

you can edit for this reason your local downloaded ZIP package or adjust the already installed content. Here is an example with already installed modification.

Goal: allow KPI View to be usable also in M mode.

1. Open your folder where "Analysis-config" (for Lumira 2.0: "LumiraDesigner-config") folder is placed, this is normally your "User" folder.
   


2. open the correct package (in this case "basics") with some tool (like WinRar)
   


3. open the "contribution.xml" file and search for your control (by name)
   


4. when found, modify the lines as above - allow the "mode=m" and assure that requireJs has also the "m" in the value (othercase the handler will be not loaded)


5. close this file, assure the content in the JAR is updated correctly (WinRar is asking for that)


6. now, go to the control js file (in res/<name>) like here
   


7. open it and add following code as below:
   

   // ### special code for M mode ###
   
   // load sap.ui.commons
   
   var oCore = sap.ui.getCore();// mark forced re-load of sap.m events bundle
   
   oCfgData = window[“sap-ui-config”]
   
   
   
   if(oCfgData.libs.indexOf(“sap.ui.commons”) == -1) {
   
   oCore.loadLibrary(“sap.ui.commons”);
   
   
   
   oCfgData.libs = oCfgData.libs + “,sap.ui.commons”;
   
   }
   
   // ### end special code ###

   
   


8. close this file, assure the content in the JAR is updated correctly (WinRar is asking for that)


9. now, start Design Studio again, your control should be visible also in M mode and rendering should work as well.

First one who will need and try it out, please let others know if it works.