Outlook: Exporting with Design Studio 1.6

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Will my exports look great with SAP Design Studio 1.6?

Our blog post SAP vs. openbi Export gives you a good overview of the standard export possibilities of SAP Design Studio 1.5. There we have already shown the problems of the  standard export feature: Lack of quality, flexibility  and customizability that a lot of business users request for their daily work.

SAP will include a lot of nice new features into version 1.6 of DesignStudio - also some new export features?

The answer is: NO!

Unfortunately all export features will remain unchanged!

So does this mean your users have to stick with the export as it is?

Our answer is: NO!

Our Export Addon for SAP Design Studio has been a high-quality, flexible and highly customizable toolset already for SAP Design Studio 1.5!

We on the other hand, added even more features and flexibility to our Export Toolset!

And this even before version 1.6 is out! Features include:

• Flexible and completely customizable include of meta information such as query name, system, data actuality, variables and filters
• Language setting and user dependent number formatting
• Enhancements to script functions: Set and get all parameters of the export. Get a list of all data sources, components or data bound components for even more flexibility in application design! Get the number of cells, rows and columns in any result set.
• Light-weight but fully formatted export of data to CSV or clipboard

Feature Comparison

The following feature comparison shall give you a full overview of what you gain from our Export add-on for Design Studio. New features are maked in red. They will be discussed in detail in a separate blog.You can also ask us for a free trial or low-cost PoC project via sales@biexcellence.com!

	SAP DesignStudio 1.5	bi excellence 4 sap
General
Export Quality	Pixels visible in charts	PDF: vectorised, other formats: up to 5 times screen resolution
Support of Custom Components	P	P
Publish Modes	Online	Online, Mail, Web Service, File System
Corporate Templates / Design	O	P
Tab Support / Hidden Components	P	P		How to papers available
End User Export Dialog / Handling	P	Static via properties pane, custom popup via scripting, component selection also possible
Scripting support	O	P
Include meta data	Static display	P		Fully customizable
Scripting support	O	P
Ready for custom requirements	O	P		Expandable toolbox
Multiple applications in one document	O	P
Multiple selections of application in one document	O	P
Flexible compilation of briefing books via “Add to” feature	O	P
RTL / LTR support	P	P
Architecture	Built in via JavaScript framework	HTTP request to open bi Service on premise / cloud
Language dependend number formatting	O	P
Target: PDF
WYSIWYG Export	P	P
Explicit Print Layouts	O	P
Headers and Footers	Static logo. Unformatted text by user.	P	fully customizable: include filters, logos, HTML, placeholders
Full table content, repetition of headers, split of wide tables	O	P
Change styling of elements	O	P
Documents with title page and table of contents	O	P	via Word Template
Target: PowerPoint
WYSIWYG Export	O	P
Multi-Slide Export	O	P
Text as image / text	O	P
Table as image / native table, split on multiple slides	O	P
Target: Word
Export selected components	O	P
Placeholders for contents	O	P
Text as image / text	O	P
Table as image / native table, header repetition	O	P
Target: Excel
Export selected components	P	P
Corporate Templates	O	P
Formatted Table Export	P	P