Design Studio 1.4 Release Information

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.4 has been released at 26th November 2014. Here you can find collection of all release information which is available.

UPDATE / 10pm CET - All Parts / Add-Ons are available

• Support Packages are already available (for selective download)
• Installation Package also available - but this is required only if you want to have all parts as single download (4GB).

.Entry Point is the Product Availability Matrix with links to:.

• Essentials: PAM Additional Information (direct link)
  • in this document you can find the supported systems for data sources, platform and functionality prerequisites.
• Documentation Site (direct link to Help Portal)
  • at this site all relevant documentation documents are available:
    • What's New
      • summary of features delivered with this Design Studio release, see
        • What's New Guide
    • Installation, Configuration, Security and Administration Information
      • Installation guides for BI Platform, NetWeaver and Client deployment, see
        • Section for administration guides
    • Development Information
      • All information for Software Development Kit (SDK) of Design Studio, also with package containing simple components build with SDK as examples, see
        • Developer Guide: Design Studio SDK
        • Design Studio SDK Templates and Samples"
    • Application Help
      • contains documentation for application developers, see
        • Application Designer Guide
    • End-User Information and Additional Information
• Release Notes
  • Release note for Initial Shipment (Note 1948049)
    • this note will also be actualized as soon some important information needs to be published
  • Release note for Support Package Schedule (Note 1760372)
• Link to Download Area:
  • Download of initial package (all software components in ZIP format - separated by deployment type)
  • Download of SP0 per software component (selective download is possible)

Additional Information

• Official product Tutorials at SCN
• Official Road Map - will be actualized soon based on planning of 1.3 release

Important help in case of support - notes which help you and SAP in support process

Sizing Note

Important Hints (release 1.4) in short:

• Client installers do not need any more SAP JRE installation (SAP JVM is delivered with Design Studio)
• Pay attention to platform dependent functionality (see PAM Additional Information PDF)
  • Translation and Bookmarking on NW require new support packages (see notes)
  • Translation on BIP is not supported in release 1.5
  • Online Composition & Global Scripts are supported only on BIP platform (support on NW planned for SP01)
    

Known Issues and Solutions (from 1.3 release)

     Design Studio BI Platform Add-On

• 1942899 - Application Service could not be established after the installation of an SDK component in a distributed environment

     Design Studio NetWeaver Add-On

• 1897054 - SBOP Design Studio: NetWeaver Add-On SP Deployment with JSPM

     Design Studio Client (documentation will follow)

• Installation does not start, currently the solution is to backup and remove 2 folders in user folder:
  • folder: %USERPROFILE%\Analysis-config
  • folder: %USERPROFILE%\Analysis-workspace
• Upgrade Issue from Design Studio 1.1 release with support package smaller than SP3 - solution is to uninstall the 1.1 release first and then make fresh install of 1.2 release.

Feel free to ask any questions related to technical aspects of this release - I will try to answer and actualize this site.