Hello Everyone,

Just yesterday I had the confirmation from Design Studio development team that a new issue introduced with SP1 for Design Studio 1.5 has been identified and already fixed. Over the last days many incidents were created on this, some of them with Very High priority, due to the criticity it has for business users.

When running Design Studio applications on BI Platform errors like data source instantiation not possible are raised (Data source is not initialized, could not instantiate the data source, cannot load query). In many cases it is resolved with an APS restart, but the issue comes back after some minutes.

If you look at the APS logs you will see the error:

"...Not a valid logon token. (FWB 00003) Cannot find token."

SAP Development released SAP Note 2218808 today on this and for DS 1.5 SP1 PL1 - which is going to fix this issue - planned release data, please refer to this note updates.

Kind Regards,
Marcio

Hi All,

We are using SAP DEsign studio 1.5 version in SAP Netweaver portal .

we have used Personalization option to save the User selected value, Personalization is getting saved. But when we refresh Prompt screen is appearing.

Settings:

BW service Pack 7

Prompt Merge : True

Prompt Initialization: True.

I have checked in Forum, but i dint find any link which provides solution for Netweaver connectivity.

Checked in below link also:

SAPexperts | How to Use the Bookmarking and Personalization Features of SAP Design Studio</title> …

Kindly let me know if it is related to Service Pack of BW Server.

Thanks,

Jaya

Dear all,

I am creating a DS 1.5 application (BIP scenario) which also contains a waterfall chart. The chart would look better, if the starting point is not from 0, but depending on the values on higher value. I found in the additional properties the "axis scaling" function, but setting a fix MIN/MAX value will not work dynamically.

Is there any option/setting/scrip I can apply in order to set a dynamic starting point of the y-axis scale?

Any idea would be great. Thank you in advance.

Best regards,

Stefanos from Munich/Germany

Hi Experts,

i'm actually struggling on the integration of an own ui5 component in a sdk wrapped-way to DS1.5.

I've developed an own charttype based on sapui5 an viz-charts.

Everything ist working as expected in ui5-applications.

Now i wanted to wrap this component into a DS custom component.

The problem doing this is, that not all sap.viz files/components/libraries are loaded properly and

i'm facing lots of dependency errors.

So first i tried to load them via jQuery.require (e.g.:  jQuery.sap.require('sap.viz.libs.sap-viz-info');jQuery.sap.require('sap.viz.ui5.data.FlattenedDataset');).

After 20 jQuery statements and further dependency problems i have found the possibility to load the whole library

with requireJs. After some tries i can't get it to work.

Has someone a hint for me where to load the "sap.viz" library and maybe how to do it with requireJs to handle all dependencies in a correct way?

All other solutions to fix my problem are also welcome!

Thank you i advanced

Markus

Hello,

We have a requirement to show our dashboards in French for certain usergroup. The data is coming from BW and it has data in English and French. I changed the viewing locale to French from launchpad preferences after publishing the file, but I don't see the data in French. When I log into BI mode from Design studio and run the dashboard locally(Execute Locally) I see the french text. But when I execute it in BI mode(Execute on BI Platform), I still see English and not french. I am not sure what the missing piece is. Has anyone faced this before or is my approach correct?

Please assist.

BOBJ version - 4.1

Design studio version - 1.3

Backend - SAP BW

Thanks

We are trying to publish DesignStudio (version 1.5) content to our SAP NetWeaver Portal, but cannot do this successfully.

Option 1 : URL iView

• Create a URL iview in SAP Portal
• Use the base URL as "http://xxx.xxx.xxxxxx.co.za:8080/BOE/OpenDocument/opendoc/openDocument.jsp"
• Use the following 2 URL parameters:
  • iDocID = < CUID of object as obtained from BO CMC>
  • sIDType = CUID
• Change the iview property Launch in New Window to "Display in Seperate Headerless Portal Window"

Result:

• Internet Explorer (IE11) : new window opens (as expected), then javascript error message appears:

     Debugging from that step yields the following additional information

• Chrome : 1st time I click on the iview, I get a generic BO error message "An error has occurred: Could not find the document."

                      2nd time I click on the link, it opens perfectly

                      Almost like it is not doing SSO properly the first time round

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Option 2 : DesignStudio Template

• Deploy the necessary content, and restart the Portal
• Create a new iview, this time from DesignStudio template
• Enter the technical name of the DesignStudio object
  • I can only select Design Studio objects that have been saved to SAP NetWeaver (=SAP BW). Cannot select Design Studio content that has been saved to BO Platform

Result:

• IE : iview opens, in new window, but onClick() event does not fire for button. I assume there is some additional uploads into SAP BW I need to perform
• Chrome : same result. Design Studio opens, but no event fired on clicking the button

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So what am I doing wrong ?

I'd prefer to publish the Design Studio content to BO Platform, as that allows us to consume in SAP BO Mobile in the future, but then I'm limited to URL iview / OpenDocument, which doesn't seem to be working

If I have to go the DesignStudio template route, then I need to figure out all the additional files that have to be uploaded to the BW server. Plus, transports are much harder to apply in the SAP BW space, than they are in the BO space, so would prefer not to go down this route.

Any assistance ?

Regards,

Andrew

Hello All,

We are using Design Studio1.5 and it does not support delegated measures as written in it's guide.

The requirements are to use smart/delegated measures on the crosstab which fetches percentage and averages directly from the universe. The crosstabs on the DS does not allow us to do calculations based on numerator and denominator to show data dynamically.

We have got some suggestions to use SAP BO Analysis Office 2.1. The suggestion is to create a calculated column on the excel based on the numerator and denominator for percenatges(which we can get from the universe) and then importing that crosstab back to design studio.

We are not sure whether that will actually work.

I need some suggestions on how we can solve this issue.

Our Stack:

SAP BI 4.1 SP5

Design Studio 1.5

Teradata 13

SAP BO Analysis Office 2.1

Thanks,

Himanshu

Hi Design Studio Experts,

we are using a Design Studio report for our sales representatives with a jump target to a Crystal Report.

The jump target works by using the right mouse.

Now my question: Is it possible to implement a Button to start the jump target through that object?

Maybe someone of you has already experience with such a szenario?

Gerardo

Hi SCN,

i am currently facing the problem of margins not being shown/calculated properly in crosstabs when embedded in a hierarchy. Thus, i would be really glad if anyone of you would be able to help me.

Framework:

• The Data Source is a BO Universe
• Design Studio Version: 14.0.3

Screenshot:

Problem description:

As can be seen in the screenshot above, the last column shows a calculated margin in percent. This margin is only calculated properly for the lowest dimension of the hierarchy (which is POS 02 - POS 03 - POS 04). The column second to the last is showing absolute values of the margin which are calculated correctly throughout the hierarchy.

At the last column i only get valid values for the margin of the lowest dimension within the hierarchy (called POS 04 in this case), values for higher dimensions in the hierarchy (e.g. POS 03 or POS 02) only return NOT_EXIST instead of the accumulated value. I thinkthis problem occurs because Design Studio must be able to calculate the margin for a higher hierarchy based on the accumulated values of the underlying hierarchy. Hence, values for the margin calclation of a higher dimension have to be based on values which have to be calculated via Design Studio or the Universe in the background.

One thing that makes me curious about this issue is that we do not face this problem with BO Web Intelligence Reports. We already use this calculated margin measure at some reports which did not raise this hierarchy percentage issue. Moreover, the mentioned reports are using the same BO universe and query as a data source!

Does anyone know how to solve this issue or does anybody face the same problem?

Thanks a lot in advance for your help!!!

BR,

Markus

Hi Forum, i have an issue with the installation of the Design Studio Plugin on Eclipse.

When i downloaded the Realtime installation and upload it into the eclipse enviroment it brings this error:

Missing requirement: Design Studio ESP SDK Datasource 15.1.2 (com.sap.ip.zen.extension.realtime.espdatasource 15.1.2) requires 'bundle com.sap.ip.bi.zen.rt.components.sdk.eclipse 0.0.0' but it could not be found

Do you know a workaround for this error?

Thanks in advance,

Reynaldo

Dear Gurus,

I am using SAP DS 1.5 (version 15.0.6), I am trying to create  a stacked waterfall chart , some how the stacked and swap axes functionality does not work in it for me .

Here is the requirement chart needs to  display four key figures ( Opening , Opened , Closed , Closing )  in a water fall chart and each key figure needs to be stacked by company code .

I have designed my source BEx query for this requirement in which I have the 4 key figures in column and company code in the rows. When this query is assigned to chart type waterfall-stacked in DS , it shows only the first key figure (opening) with the company codes in  the rows .I have tried swapping the axes both in the BEx query and in DS query but it does not work ,

Any suggestions.

Thank you

KV

Dear all,

Have you ever get below error when connecting to a universe?

I was working on Design studio 1.5 with Bex queries before, it's working fine.

But when starting to use some universes, this error pop-up when refreshing a query.

The weird thing is some universes are ok, some are not.

Thoese problemantic universes are all singel sourced, based on relational connection on top of SQL server. Should be comptible with Design studio.

Already searched support site and google, no any record.

I hope someone here have similiar experience can give me a hint.

Thanks in advanced,

Dan

I'm trying to override the default CSS for the checkbox group to get it to display horizontally but trying "display: inline-block" doesn't seem to be working unless I'm not overwriting the correct tag.

Has anyone had success of making it go horizontally?

This webcast took place on Thursday – I will try to not repeat what has already been shown here on SCN so I am skipping some of the slides presented.

Figure 1: Source: APOS

Figure 1 shows the results of the attendee poll

Figure 2: Source: APOS

Figure 2 shows that two-thirds of the attendees expect to use Design Studio – 30% increase from today

Figure 3: Source: APOS

SAP’s Ian Mayor then provided an overview of Design Studio 1.5 features.  He said enhancements to Design Studio are voted on by user groups around the world, and Idea Place

Figure 4: Source: SAP

Figure 4 shows Smart Objects.  Smart Objects assemble dashboards for end user

They allow you to choose components from different dashboards, save them as fragments, and those fragments go into the person’s repository, person creates personalizable dashboards

Smart Objects provide live references back to original dashboards

Figure 5: Source: SAP

Focus 1.6 area is support for non-SAP sources

Row limit for UNX – at least 20K rows, no final number yet

As move beyond, 20K is not enough, looking to remove row limits

The plan is to improve interop with Lumira, go from Lumira to Design Studio – looking at 2016 timeline

SAP plans to redouble commitment to non-SAP sources in 2016

Version 1.6 will support multi-source universes

Design Studio is on a six month cycle

Version 1.6 is planned for November

2016 May and November are planned releases

Figure 6: Source: APOS

Figure 6 shows the APOS add-on using Web Intelligence as a data source to Design Studio and Lumira

Question and Answer

Q: How can we deploy Design Studio to SharePoint and other homegrown apps?

A: If you use platform portal integration kits you can use Design Studio with that and it uses the OpenDoc standard to embed content

You have to keep in mind – output is pure HTML5 app – to render properly you need to make sure it is also HTML5 otherwise strange rendering

Q: Are there widgets/icons for Design Studio?

A: Icon widget could make it to 1.6 (not 100% certain though)

Q: How does Design Studio integrate with BI platform?

A: it is an add-on to BI platform – it releases more often than BI platform

Q: Can we connect to ECC using BAPI’s?

A: You can use the transient providers (eph5/6 and above)

Q: If use databound components is no scripting required?

A: It does eliminate some scripting but some things like exports and hiding does require scripting

Q: Do we have a date for 1.6?

A: Planned for November – can’t give an exact date

Q: Parallelization does not use OLAP cache?

A: Will use it some cases but not optimal for BW

BW on HANA – less of an issue as they run faster

Q: Plans to use Query as a BI web service like XCelsius?

A: no plans in foreseeable future

Consider add-ons like the Data Gateway from APOS

Q: Does Design Studio retire Dashboards?

A: Design Studio is the platform moving forward with – no plans to retire Dashboards/XCelsius but not make plans for new features in those products

If build new applications consider Design Studio

Related

ASUG Webcast for Design Studio 1.6 – register at https://www.asug.com/events/detail/World-Premiere-of-SAP-BusinessObjects-Design-Studio-1.6

Your chance to learn more about SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio

Meet ASUG TechEd Speaker Mustafa Bensan and learn how to Apply a Fresh Face to Your BI Apps with SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio

Learn about experiences extending Design Studio and and SAP Lumira using the SDK in ASUG Session BA209 at TechEd

APOS will be exhibiting at SAP TechEd Las Vegas

Design Studio was covered at the end of last week's #askSAP call.  The usual legal disclaimer applies that things in the future are subject to change.

SAP said the "overall shift in BI from centralized IT to more of an end user agile BI".  It doesn’t meant that “curated” use case has gone away.  It means now we have use cases where users can create something right now based on their needs.

Design Studio has been taking on the roles that legacy products filled for application building and dashboarding.  With 1.6, SAP has been rapidly developing the product.  It is a a rapid analytic development tool for dashboarding and analytic apps.

It is not necessarily for the developer; it is for the designer.  The designer can rapidly develop complex applications customized to the needs of the organization

Templates are included in every version – a “gallery of templates”.  Application can be completely custom.  Applications are universally consumable using HTML5.

Drag and drop in cross tabs, save parts of an application with colleagues (smart objects, social BI)

Figure 1: Source: SAP

Fast development, template oriented, designer oriented, someone professional curates the application with a fast deployment model

Development times are in weeks for a complex application; if using template can do in an afternoon

Figure 2: Source: SAP

Typical template based application

Custom app for OLAP data

Figure 3: Source: SAP

Out of the box it looks like Lumira (see the right of Figure 3)

Figure 4: Source: SAP

Data exploration is almost like Lumira and geared towards OLAP data sources

Figure 5: Source: SAP

Version 1.6 is planned for November

For this version features the scorecard

With 1.6 feel can turn attention to classic XCelsius community

Before had the cross tab, but it is not heavily formatted information

Scorecard will have a customizable table, customize conditional formatting, combine CSS formatting to the data to make it dynamic

Can put charts in columns/cells and can organize –build a butterfly table and sparkline charts

Geo includes small improvements, can now have embedded charts with shapes

Will fully support drag and drop BEX use cases

Related

ASUG Webcast for Design Studio 1.6 – register at https://www.asug.com/events/detail/World-Premiere-of-SAP-BusinessObjects-Design-Studio-1.6

Your chance to learn more about SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio

Meet ASUG TechEd Speaker Mustafa Bensan and learn how to Apply a Fresh Face to Your BI Apps with SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio

Learn about experiences extending Design Studio and and SAP Lumira using the SDK in ASUG Session BA209 at TechEd

Design Studio Update – APOS Webcast Recap

Hi All

I have worked in design studio using BEx query as source and have been able to filter on the key figure structure, to use specific key figures in the individual chart. This would help in using a single chart and play around the script to display required values. The script would be something like this:

Now I am trying to do the same with my Hana views and i dont get to see the list of available measures that has been used on trying to filter.

Is it possible at all or someone has a work around to deal with this scenario?

Regards

Merlin

When an end user comes into contact with a Design Studio app or dashboard, it is all web content.  Design Studio’s designer tool is another beast entirely.  It is an Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) application and leverages both Eclipse itself and the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF).  Since our web content is going to need to live in Eclipse and in the EMF during design time, we're going to need to supply some infrastructure to make this possible.

Eclipse is extendable.  Furthermore, these Eclipse extensions (Plug-Ins) can themselves be extended if they offer up an extension point.  Design Studio offers an extension point.   Presuming that we've installed Eclipse (VERSION) and Design Studio and that they are both the same bit depth (32 and 32, or 64 and 64), we can now go about configuring Eclipse to develop Design Studio extensions.

When we're developing our extension, were going to want to test it periodically and when we're done, we're going to want to create a deployable package.  Therefore, we're going to want to make sure that Eclipse knows about Design Studio and that Design Studio is a valid "thing with an extension point".  In Eclipse, this is known as a Target Platform.

Step 1 - In Eclipse, select Window -> Preferences

Step 2 - In the Preferences dialog, search for "target".  This will filter the available properties down to the Target Platform.  Select Target Platform.

Step 3 - At this point, if you have never done any plugin development, then there will be no target platforms.  Click on Add to create one.

Step 4 - Select "Nothing: Start with an empty target definition".

Step 5 - We have an empty target definition.  First, give it a name.  Then click on the Add button, to define the actual target.

Step 6 - Since we want to use the existing Design Studio installation as the target platform, we'll assign the directory where its executable resides as the target.  Select Directory.  Then navigate to Design Studio's installation folder and select it.

Step 7 - You should see a long list of plugins in the preview pane.  Select Finish.

You should now have a Target Platform defined and it should be the default.  You are now ready to debug the Design Studio Extension projects that you work on.

Step 8 - Download and install the SDK samples.  These are useful as a reference point in any project.  If you ever find yourself asking "how do I do X", then there is surely a sample that can help you.

As of Design Studio 1.5, the download location of the most recent version of the SDK samples is here:

http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/AAD15/en/DS_15_SDK_SAMPLES.zip

Unpack it.

Step 9 - When you are editing component properties and attributes, you'll be doing it in XML; in the contribution.xml file..  There is a way to ensure that a particular type of XML file follows pattern.  This is to conform to it's schema definition, if there is one.  The Design Studio SDK has a schema definition.  If we inform Eclipse where this schema definition is, Eclipse can warn us when we've made an error in our contribution.xml syntax and it can even give us value help.

Navigate back to the Window -> Preferences dialog and this time, select XML -> XML Catalog, or search for XML catalog.

Step 10 - In the Add XML Catalog Element, select Add.

Step 11 - Navigate to wherever in the filesystem that you unpacked your samples and select SDK.xsd.  Click on Finish and the sdk schema has been added to Eclipse.

Step 12 - Now we're ready to import the sample SDK projects into our workspace.  Select File -> Import.  In the Import dialog, select General -> Existing Projects into Workspace.

Step 13 - Keep the default "Select root directory" radio button checked.  Click on Browse.  Navigate to the location of the projects in the filesystem (where sdk.xsd was).  Select the project(s) that you wish to import.

Step 14 -  Strictly speaking, Eclipse does not require you to copy the projects into the current workspace and can work with them in their original location.  If you check "Copy Projects into Workspace", Eclipse will copy the content into a newly created folder in the workspace.  Doing this is good practice, as it keeps the projects together and makes them easier to port en-masse to newer versions of Eclipse or to other systems later.

Step 15 - Often, these imported projects contain metadata that was specific to the original project setup.  You may see error messages and the extensions won't be startable.  To take care of this, you can command Eclipse to "clean" the metadata.  With the project selected, select Project -> Clean.

Step 16 - Select Clean All Projects and then click on OK.

Step 17 - You are now ready to check and see if your setup is ready for development.  Right click on the project in the Project Explorer.  Select Run As -> Eclipse Application.  This will start the currently active Target Platform (which should be Design Studio), with all currently open extensions installed.  Keep in mind, that this instance of Design Studio will not use the same workspace as Design Studio started normally; so apps developed outside of the context of debugging components will not be visible here and the apps that you work on to test your components won't be seen elsewhere.

Design Studio allows you – via extensions – to add any arbitrary Javascript/HTML/CSS web content to your apps and dashboards.  These extensions are not one-offs.  Rather, they become part of your palette and are always available when you are working on apps in the designer.  This tutorial series walks you through the entire process of creating a your first functional component; a configurable gauge component.  It presumes that you have Eclipse and Design Studio installed and that you know your way around Design Studio.  Prior knowledge of html, Javascript and CSS is helpful, but not mandatory.  We’ll walk you through the bits that you need to know.

There are many Design Studio SDK articles on this site and this tutorial series does not break new ground in that respect.  What it does do, is try to bring a comprehensive, systematic approach to learning how to use the SDK.

Notes on Terminology

Dashboard and Application seem to be used interchangeably.  If there is any consensus, it might be that “dashboards” are simpler and “applications” are more complex.  There is no consensus on when a dashboard has enough complexity to be called an application.  For simplicity, since we don’t want to always write “dashboards and applications”, we’ll just call them apps here.

Likewise, “Extension” and “Plugin” are interchangeable.  Here, however, we will split hairs and make an arbitrary distinction.  An “Extension” means the web content that you’ll want to make available to Design Studio and that icon in the design palette, which the designer will access.  “Plugin” refers to the technical plumbing that you’ll need to supply to Design Studio’s Eclipse core; in order to make your extension available to the designer.  The designer of an app installs and uses an extension.  The developer of an extension makes a plugin.

Chapters:

Part 0 - Setting Up Eclipse

Hi,

The scenario I would like to implement looks like this.

1 map - high level

1 map - low level

Initial display - low level.

Example - Country + region or region + county or postal code 1st digit + postal code 1st+2nd digit.

Behavior - When I click on e.g. county A, a filter is set on country A. In addition, the regions are displayed, but only the regions within country A.

I have so far failed to make this last condition work, as I don't know how I can used the select on a country to filter the regions.

Any help will be appreciated.

Martin

PS I'm using Design Studio 1.5 SP1

Hello SCN-Users,

currently I´m testing some solutions for custom resources like images / css within a Design Studio application. The destination should be the launchpad of an BIP and the business users should not see the resources within the BIP. My current scenarios are:

Solution 1:

Upload all resources via the Design Studio client to the BIP. It works but I can´t hide the resources for the business users.

Solution 2:

Upload the resources to the tomcat root folder for e.g. /tomcat/webapps/ROOT and access them via for e.g. http://<boserver>:<port>/image1.jpg. This solution works fine but I doesn´t like the absolute address path to the server. Maybe the port or server address could change in the future and currently I don´t know what is happening if an BO update would be installed...

Solution 3:

Use Base64 to encoded image resources. Currently I´m unhappy with this solution too because it´s complicated for further report developers to understand.

Is there maybe any other solution that you know? Maybe an folder for custom BIP resources which are accessible for an Design Studio application?

Kind regards

André