Gurus

We just upgraded to 1.4 from 1.3sp2 I am now getting an error message on all my Column - Stacked charts,  They worked fine with my data source before 1.4.  But now I get a message across the top of the chart saying

"Chart data inconsisten; this chart type requires data to be assigned from the 'Additional Charts' dialog box"

I cant find anything called Additional Charts since the error has it in quotes I think its the exact name but I did look in Additional Chart Types dialogue but they dont have column stacked listed so if I assign any values it automatically converts my chart to Heat Chart, the 1st one on the list.

Has anyone else ran into this before or have any ideas how to fix the error?

My data source has a Measure and Attribute in the columns and 2 attributes in the rows.  Like I said that works for 1.3 Design Studio your help is appreciated

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New for 1.4

• NEW for 1.4  What's new in SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.4    interactive/ video(2:10)
• NEW for 1.4  Create a Global Script Function   interactive/ video(2:31)
• NEW for 1.4  Create an RRI Jump Target  interactive/ video(1:59)
• NEW for 1.4  Use a Context Menu to Manipulate a Crosstab interactive/ video(1:31)
• NEW for 1.4  Enable Drag and Drop Navigation in the Filter Panel interactive/ video(1:20)
• NEW for 1.4  Use the Online Composition Feature interactive
• NEW for 1.4  Connect to a streaming data source  demo(9:47)
• NEW for 1.4  Create a time-based line chart with streaming data source  demo(9:35)

Getting Started

• 1.1 What's new in SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.1    interactive/ video(3:20)
• 1.2 What's new in SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.2    interactive/ video(2:20)
• 1.3 What's new in SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.3 interactive/ video(1:37)
• Log on to SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio    interactive/ video (0:49)
• Navigate the interface    interactive/ video (1:50)
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• Connect to SAP HANA    interactive/ video (1:44)
• Use QR code scanning to display an application on an iPad    interactive/ video (0:38)
• Upload a local application to the Business Intelligence platform    interactive/ video (0:39)
• 1.3 Use the AdHoc Analysis template  interactive/ video(6:08)
• 1.3 Create a planning application using BW-Integrated planning functions  interactive/ video(4:33)

Using Components and Scripts

• Add an analytic component to an application    interactive/ video (1:11)
• Set up an analytic component as a filter  interactive/ video (2:02)
• Set up a basic component as a filter  interactive/ video (2:47)
• Set up a basic component using the New Statement Wizard    interactive/ video (2:20)
• Display static and dynamic text in an application    interactive/ video (2:27)
• Add an image to an application  interactive/ video (1:08)
• Set up a basic component to be populated with metadata    interactive/ video (2:38)
• Set up a basic component as a filter with an If/Then/Else statement    interactive/ video (2:35)
• Add a dimension filter to an application    interactive/ video (1:55)
• Add a filter panel to an application    interactive/ video (2:24)
• Set a variable for currency    interactive/ video (2:35)
• Load data in a script    interactive/ video (1:16)
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• Trigger multiple actions in a script    interactive/ video (1:06)
• Set up a cascading filter in an application    interactive / video (4:01)
• Create a scorecard using SAP BW BEx Query exceptions    interactive / video (2:53)
• 1.1 Define the properties for a chart in an application    interactive/ video(2:32)
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• 1.1 Prompt for an SAP NetWeaver BW or SAP HANA variable    interactive/ video(1:17)
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• 1.1 Use the getData method to display values    interactive/ video(1:53)
• 1.1 Calculate a value using local and global script variables    interactive/ video(3:59)
• 1.1 Pass URL parameters between applications    interactive/ video(4:40)
• 1.1 Search for and find references to a component in an application    interactive/ video(1:38)
• 1.2 Select multiple components in design mode    interactive/ video(0:59)
• 1.2 Add navigation capabilities to a Filter Panel component    interactive/ video(1:55)
• 1.2 Create a cascading dimension filter    interactive/ video(3:02)
• 1.2 Create a list box with multiple selection capabilities    interactive/ video(2:02)
• 1.2 Set up user interactivity properties for a crosstab    interactive/ video(3:03)
• 1.2 Select key figures to display on charts    interactive/ video(1:12)
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• 1.2 Set up display properties for a crosstab    interactive/ video(3:32)
• 1.3 Modify Additional Chart Properties  interactive/ video(1:10)
• 1.3 Create Additional Chart Types  interactive/ video(3:05)
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Understanding Processflows

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Hey guys,

     We are facing this problem with the sap.m.List in Design Studio. We are developing a custom component based on the sap.m.List from SAPUI5. We need a click event on the list Items however it does not work as Design Studio is using version 1.18.8 of the SAPUI5 library and the itemPress  event is available from 1.20 on-wards. The selectionChange events on the other hand can be used, but on runtime the checkboxes dont seem to work at all.

If anyone has tried this, can you please help with this ?

(P.S My first post here on SCN, hate that it had to be a question though )

Hi All,

We have a column chart and it has Availability and Assigned Measures for Y axis and Week for X axis (figure 1). However we want to group it by week. So basically there will be only two colour bar chart as per below (figure 2 from Lumira).

How do we accomplish this in Design Studio?

Regards,

Regards,

DTD

Hi,

Is there a way to create a trendline based on a measure/key figure directly in Design Studio?

I prefer a non-SDK solution if possible.

My data source is a Bex query, and I am using DS 1.4.

Regards,

Kris

Hello all,

I am trying to move the Total Results column of the Crosstab to the left (Design Studio, by default, put it to the right), next to the dimensions of my crosstab, do you know if it is possible? I have read all the CSS info about editing crosstabs but I could not find anything related to this.

The idea is to obtain something like this:

Thank you very much.

Dear Experts,

I am trying to display a measure value in in a text field and the value changes based on the month dimension I change in the dropdown box. When I try to achieve this using

TEXT_1.setText(DS_1.getDataAsString(measure,{month:DROPDOWN_1.getselectedValue()})) ;

Nothing is visible in text box and I am getting warning "Selection in getDataAsString() is under specified.". Has anyone faced this behaviour? I tried hard- coding month value and also getDataAsStringExt() function. Same error repeats.

If I try other dimension, it works But if I include other dimension and month together to specify, its again not returning any value.

Please provide some info on this if anyone has any idea.

I am in SAP DS 1.4 versin 14.0.3 64 bit and trying in local mode connecting to SAP BW.

Thnaks in advance.

Regards,

Nikhil Joy

Hi All,

When prototyping sap.m based components using handler type "sapui5", up until Design Studio 1.3, I'm sure that scrolling on a mobile device for controls such as sap.m.List worked as expected.  However, as of Design Studio 1.4 I've noticed that scrolling no longer works on a mobile device and would like to request your assistance in trying to resolve this.

By way of background, my understanding is that the mobile scrolling in standard UI5 is implemented as follows:

1)  For iOS Version < 6, the iScroll4 3rd-party library (included with UI5) is invoked for mobile scrolling;

2)  For iOS Version >=6 native browser scrolling is invoked.

As of Design Studio 1.4, for some reason it appears that native scrolling is being suppressed.  Karol Kalisz has been good enough to prepare a SapMList prototype component that has replicated the issue (available in the "preview" version of the Design Studio SDK Development Community Prototype components.  The source code is available here: sdkpackage/src/org.scn.community.prototypes at master · org-scn-design-studio-community/sdkpackage · GitHub

Interestingly, if the SapMList component is created as a standalone UI5 application, the mobile scrolling works as expected, so it appears as though there is an issue in Design Studio 1.4 that is suppressing mobile scrolling.

An updated version of the the SapMList.js library, SapMList-iScroll.js is attached. This includes additional code to force the iScroll functionality to be invoked regardless of iOS version, based on the delegation approach described in the UI5 documentation Scrolling: Implementation Details.

Although the iScroll workaround above resolves the issue, with the later versions of iOS it's preferable to use the native mobile scrolling as implemented in the standard UI5 functionality.  Any ideas about why the native mobile scrolling for sap.m controls is being suppressed in Design Studio 1.4 as well as suggested solutions for activating the standard native scrolling would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Mustafa.

I have a need to create crosstab reports with text strings as the crosstab intersection values.   I am able to get it to work in a very old version of Business Objects.  Does it work in the current version of Design Studio (1.4)?  Attached is a picture.  I have highlighted the crosstab area in yellow.

Message was edited by: Tammy Powlas

Hi,

my current version of design studio is 1.3 SP1. as soon as i open the content assist, the tools starts throwing errors like "Xtext validation" ,"key binding conflicts occured" etc... eventually freezing. i tried to uninstall and reinstall the toll but still no luck. please help me resolve the issue.

below are some errors

"org.eclipse.xtext.validation.ResourceValidatorImpl  -"

"org.eclipse.xtext.ui.shared.internal.Activator  - Disabling JDT use. : org/eclipse/jdt/core/JavaCore"

"org.eclipse.xtext.builder.clustering.ClusteringBuilderState  - Error validating platform:/resource/com.sap.ip.bi.zen/repository/Ad.ztruea2BMtSkec_a0j1I/content.biapp"

Thanks,

karthik

Hi,

In Design studio 1.4 ,I created few bookmarks icons to save,load & delete bookmarks.

These bookmarks are perfectly working when I am launching in local mode.

But when I am launching in SAP NetWeaver Portal,it is giving following error.

We are using Component -SAP_BW, Release 740, SP-Level 0009, Support package-SAPKW74009 SAP Business Warehouse.

Thanks & Regards-

Shashank gupta

Hi guys,

is there a way to execute an own event during design time?

Example:

1. User clicks in the Additional Properties on a button

2. this button calls through ".callRuntimeHandler("fireEvent", "xyz")" the component.js ".fireEvent("xyz")"

3. event fires the "Script" that was written in the "xyz" Event in Design Time. example: APPLICATION.alert("test")

Now there should popup "test", but it doesnt.

Some ideas?

Best regards,

Juri

Hello,

I'm using 1.4 over BI 4.1 SP3.

My Dashboard is over UNX, and inside the data source I have a few dimensions with Prompts, that the different filters inside the model send the selected values into the data source (through global variable).

One  of my data source is connected to TOP 10 chart, which is calculated with the "ranking" function of the "edit query specification" screen.

My problem is, that if I move the dimension from the report filter, into the sub query of the ranking, Whenever I use filters, I get error ("cannot access data")

Screenshot attached - You can see the dimension filtered with prompt outside of the subquery. whenever trying to use it inside - doesn't respond and gives error in chart.

Any suggestions?

Thank you,

Hi Experts,

I need to display data corresponding to the string clicked in crosstab

crosstab1 to crosstab2

but crossstab2 displaya all the data.

both datasources are differnet but have common filed as account grp.

top table is crosstab2 downtable is crosstb1

that is when i click on reseerves and surplus ,only that data should be dispalyes in crosstab2.

for which i have used the code as follows

var str= Convert.subString(CROSSTAB_1.getSelectedMember("9PSJM003IJB6EUXBALJERWHSC").text,2,100);

DS_3.setFilter("0GL_ACCOUNT__ZPFC_RG",test2);

GLLCROSSTAB.setVisible(true);

Please help me out!!!!

Regards

sushma

Hi expert.

please judgement to this problem. ( DesignStudio 1.3 SP01 )

chart - Column Combination Chart (dual axis)

and change properties measure to all "bar".

and press data filter button (  DS_4.setFilter("0MEASURES",["YSALE01","YSALE02","YSALE03"]);  )

change view [ pic 1 ] to [ pic 2 ].

it is not keep the properties "bar".

is it bug? or something more?

[ pic 1 ]

[ pic 2 ]

Hi Experts,

In design studio initial view I could not able to see data when I add dimension to columns. I kept measures in rows and I am able to see measures values when there is only measure in rows. But if I add dimension in columns I am facing the below issue.

Data source is from HANA1.06. In HANA I am able to see the data for all months and years but when it comes to design studio I could not see. below is the screen shot of my data from flat file.

I faced no issue til design studio1.3.  Can any one help me to get rid of this please. Need to do anything specifically while importing flat file into hana? or any new steps in design studio 1.4?

Thanks

Mathivanan M

Dear all,

we are using DesignStudio 1.4 via UNX Universes on an MSSQL database.

In order to calculate an average price I wanted to leverage the projection function "database delgegated" in the Information Design Tool.

This is working fine in WebI: #torefresh is appearing after dragging the document number from the drill-down and after refreshing the document I get the expected result.

However, in DesignStudio I am only seeing "NOT_EXIST" where I would expect the calculated average price.

In this document http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-38981 I found the Information on page 19 that database delegated measures should be supported by Design Studio.

But how can I enable this?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

If you have any questions I can provide more detailed explanation of the scenario or calculation approach.

If you have any alternative to handly averages or similar ratio calculations in DesignStudio I would be very happy to hear them.

Best regards

Stefan Backhaus

Hi there,

my hierarchy-scenario as follows:

Key               Text

12/3              AAA

     32/6               aaa

     47/9               bbb

33/6              BBB

     54/8               ccc

     87/6               ddd

In my crosstab selection is enabled and I need to identify the key of the root node when I click on a child.

E. g.: Click on "47/9 bbb" --> I need the key "12/3" of text node "AAA".

I tried to to work with "forEach" in combination with the corresponding characteristic "profit center" but of course I only got the key of the characteristic itself but not the one of the text node.

It would be great if anybody has got a hint for me.

Best regards

Mark

Hello All,

I have a need for custom sorting in Design Studio.

Currently we can do - DS1.sortByMember("Dimension", false); (Ascending or Descending).

Is there a way to do custom sorting? or does anyone have any workaround? I only have 3 values in Dimension that I need to do custom sorting.

Thanks,

Rajan

Hi All

So we all know that Design Studio is to be the replacement for Xcelsius, I for one welcome that replacement however there is one fundamental piece of functionality missing for me and I would like to know if anyone has managed to get around it!

So in Xcelsius we could set the refresh parameter to refresh the data however often we wanted which is great for creating dashboards to display on TV's around the business etc.

In Design Studio this is not so easy, I have come across a few problems which I shall list below.

1. No refresh parameters - It was suggested to use the Timer component from the SDK to trigger a refresh on the time event. There is a slight problem with this scenario because Universe Datasource connections cannot be refreshed using the DS_1.reloadData() command.

2. Content is published to the BI Portal (In xcelsius we could export to swf and do whatever we wanted with it!) Now I open this up via the Launchpad to display on a Business TV and leave it running to autorefresh after 5 minutes or so it gets hit by the Auto Timeout parameter set in the CMC.

My question to you all is have you found another way to do this with Design Studio?

It needs to be fully automated once its open, we don't expect users to have to click prompts to continue the session etc. Also it would be good if we could reload data from Universe's, I Will look on the ideas place and submit something if this is not already on there.