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SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office and SAP HANA Cloud | Hands-on Video Tutorials
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Hands-On Video Tutorials
What You Will Learn
Philip MUGGLESTONE just added a few more video tutorials to the Getting Started with SAP HANA Cloud series, this time about how you can develop business applications accessible for SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office.
In this blog post, you will find the video embedded with some additional information and resources.
The four tutorials take about an hour to watch. What you learn is
- How to connect SAP Analysis for Office to SAP HANA Cloud via the SAP HANA Analytics Adapter (HAA)
- How to install and run a business application generator in SAP Business Application Studio
- How to create a sample HDI Container
- How to set up a stand-alone scenario
- How to provide personalised access
- How to set up an integrated scenario
Playlist
To bookmark or directly access the YouTube playlist, go to
Sample Code
Because we know your time is precious, we have included code snippets so you can easily and merrily code along. For the GitHub repository with sample code, visit
To download the SAP HANA Analytics Adapter (HAA), go to
Hands On
To follow along, you’ll need a (free) SAP BTP trial account. If you are new to the SAP SAP Business Technology Platform, consider watching the onboaring series first.
Also required is an SAP HANA Cloud instance. If you are new to this topic, consider watching this tutorial first.
Learn More
For blogs, answers, downloads, and links to the documentation and other resources, visit the community topic area
SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office
Introduction
In this tutorial, we learn about the concepts, how to configures development tooling, and how to create an example HDI Container containing a table, example data, and a calculation view.
0:00 – Introduction and scenarios
3:15 – SAP BTP Cockpit and prerequisites
3:40 – Create Full Stack Cloud Application dev space for SAP Business Application Studio
4:30 – Copy source code URL from GitHub sales repository
5:00 – Clone from Git
5:45 – Build and deploy MTA project
6:30 – SAP BTP Cockpit and deployment artifacts
6:50 – Bind project to HDI container and open in SAP HANA database explorer
8:30 – Session Info
9:10 – Calculation View editor in SAP Business Application Studio
SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office
Stand-alone
In this tutorial, we learn how set up a standalone scenario where SAP HANA analytics adapter is configured to access an existing HDI container.
0:00 – Introduction
0:45 – Install SAP Partner Engineering extension in SAP Business Application Studio
1:30 – Install SAP HANA Academy yeoman generators
1:45 – Open template wizard and run the SAP HANA Academy HAA generator
3:30 – Project code walkthrough
5:00 – Download SAP HANA Analytics Adapter (HAA) from the SAP Development Tools
5:50 – Copy file to target folder
6:30 – Build and deploy
7:15 – Assign role collection using BTP Cockpit to business user
8:00 – Access App Router
9:30 – Create connection for SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office
10:30 – Log on as business user and select data source
12:30 – Insert Session Info
SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office
Personalised
In this tutorial, we learn how to further configure the standalone scenario to provide personalized access without needing to create a shadow user SAP HANA for each and every business user.
0:00 – Introduction
1:10 – Run command yo saphanaacademy-haa:update
2:15 – Code review
3:15 – Run command cf-env and restage application
4:00 – Access SAP HANA Cockpit
5:00 – Download certificate from SAP BTP subaccount
6:40 – Import certificate
6:55 – Create JWT identity provider
7:40 – Create certificate collection for purpose JWT
8:45 – Refresh sheet in Microsoft Excel
9:30 – Code review
12:45 – Assign role to runtime user
14:30 – Insert Dynamic Calculation View as data source in Microsoft Excel
SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office
Integration
In this tutorial, we learn how to set up an integrated scenario where SAP HANA analytics adapter is configured as a component of the main business application.
0:00 – Introduction
1:20 – Open the template wizard for SAP HANA Academy CAP
2:45 – Include and configure HANA Analytics Adapter (HAA)
3:50 – Code review
5:00 – Copy HAA web archive file to target folder
5:30 – Build and deploy project
6:30 – Artifacts review in BTP cockpit
7:40 – Assign role collection to business user
8:20 – Verify app router
9:20 – Verify HAA
10:00 – Access app as data source in SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office
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Hi,
Thank you very much this tutorial is very interesting.
I have question.
On the first tutorial, the path for db deployer is path: db
On the last one, the path for db deployer is path: gen/db
The path gen/db seems to generate troubleshooting.
May me there is a config point I am missing ? or could we use the path : db
Regards,
David Bizien
I Think I have found the solution.
May it could be great to enhance the HANACADEMY wizard for cap project.
Regards,
David Bizien
Thanks for sharing the information.
I was trying to implement the standalone scenario. But have been getting error while building the yaml of haa. It says "mvn" executable file not found in $PATH.
I have even uploaded the 'java-xsahaa.war' in target folder under srv.
Any suggestions how can I resolve this? I have also attached the screen grab of the error.
Best Regards,
Saurabh
mvn = maven, compiles Java.
Maybe try taking a look at this tutorial to see how this might work
Could be a different project template needs to be selected.
Had the same issue, i just switched to using Full Stack Cloud Application Workspace with SAP Hana add ons rather than SAP HANA Native Application then it worked.
Hi Saurabh Kumar,
I got the same error and fixed it by enhancing my space (HANA Native Application) with Java Tools.
Thanks a lot for this blog series Denys van Kempen
Kind regards,
Carlos
Hi,
The AFO client is not able to handle universal IDs (message browser not supported). Any thoughts?
Hi Denys van Kempen,
Like Ronald Konijnenburg mentioned this is displayed when trying to login:
Any idea what needs to be done?
Kind regards,
Martijn van Foeken | Interdobs
Hi Martijn,
Suggest to create a ticket with SAP Support.
Will try to contact a few colleagues as well from my side.
Hi Ronald,
No thoughts. Suggest to create a ticket with SAP Support.
Will try to contact a few colleagues as well from my side.
Thank, ticket has been raised two weeks ago. Does not really move.
Thanks, Ronald,
Twitter informed me Martijn van Foeken found an article related to the topic
https://twitter.com/mfoeken/status/1600066591835574272?s=20&t=Yx9HUluPJOrBUGcTrttMvw
Will update when I get a response from product management.