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This time a short announcement. With release 1.5 which is GA since few weeks, a lot of good functions are already in - and even some are still missing - it would be a good time to take short inventory...
View ArticleDesign Studio 1.5: Data Binding - using "Formatter Functions" for advanced logic
Starting with the basics for data binding (Design Studio 1.5: View on Data Binding (for Text)) we will today look at the more advanced options, where the word "data" can be ignored. The Goalyou...
View ArticleVisual BI Extensions – Feature Highlight: Advanced Table Component
One of the common feedback we received from our customers about the crosstab in SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio was, that it was “complicated” to format the standard crosstab and that they were...
View ArticleWhy use Blue Crystal style in Design Studio apps?
In Shortfrom the available styles in Design Studio - the "recommended" one is "Blue Crystal". You should use this when creating new apps, not the default one "Platinum". Why?Design Studio has started...
View ArticleDesign Studio Extension - Advanced Data Tables - Phase 1
Background The out-of-box Design Studio Crosstab is great for pivot table use cases. Beyond that, there's plenty of room for other tabular forms of data. This is an introduction to the first of a...
View ArticleContext menu customizing
In Design Studio we have the nice context menu on a standard crosstab. In BEx WAD a developer can specify, which items should be available to the user in the context menu. In Design Studio this is not...
View ArticleDesign Studio Innovation Series - Topic 7: Geo Maps Part II - Zoom, Zoom, Zoom!
Introduction This is the follow-up to the blog Design Studio Innovation Series - Topic 6: Geo Maps Part I - Feature Review. In that blog I covered the main features of the new Geo Map component...
View ArticleSAP BusinessObjects Design Studio Training - Basic and Advanced
Perhaps some of you attended some of my workshops in the past on SAP BusinessObjects BI with SAP BW, or on SAP Lumira with SAP BW on SAP HANA, or on Predictive Analysis, or on SAP BusinessObjects...
View ArticleMeasuring the Performance of Design Studio Application with an Example
Hi All, In this Blog, I would like to show you, how to measure the Performance of Design Studio Application and breakdown the steps.This is also mentioned in SAP Note 2162616. But here I am showcasing...
View ArticleUnderstanding Profiling and Statistics in Design Studio
After some discussions with internal colleagues and customers, I see that many of you are facing some performance questions of your applications. I try to collect the information which you can find in...
View ArticleCSS Tips & Tricks: Customizing the ChartTypePicker
With the release of SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.5, there have been many new and interesting features and components. One feature that I found particularly interesting was the Chart Type Picker....
View ArticleVisual BI Extensions – Feature Highlight: KPI Tile
In addition to the two previously discussed components – Hierarchical Filter and Advanced Table– we also added a new KPI Tile as part of our recent release of the Visual BI Extensions for SAP...
View ArticleBest Practices for Dashboard Design with BusinessObjects Design Studio-ASUG...
SAP Mentor / ASUG Volunteer Ingo Hilgefort gave this ASUG webcast last month. Below are my notes. Part 1 How organize dashboard, usage of colors, space, topics and the second half covers...
View ArticleReal time chat component in SAP BusinessObject Design Studio with Node.js...
The enterprises are drifting fast towards Node.js, especially because of its proven performance characteristics. Here, I have tried to utilize some of its features in SAP BusinessObjects Design...
View ArticleTriggering Process Chain using a Planning Function in SAP Design Studio.
Currently unlike in WAD ,there is no direct command to trigger a BW Process Chain from Design Studio. But the functionality can be achieved using a Planning Function. This blog explains how the...
View ArticleWorking with BEx conditions in SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio
When there is a need to implement conditions or set filters on key figures in SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio dashboards, it becomes a challenge to achieve this directly in the application. To...
View ArticleDesign Studio SDK: New Unified UI5 Components
started with the Design Studio SDK: (Generic) Kpi Tile I have targeted some general workflow for creation of components which are based on the SAPUI5 Explored library. Again, the goal is to reduce...
View ArticleSAP BusinessObjects Design Studio SDK Development without Eclipse
Have you ever wondered why you have been running two Eclipse environment (Eclipse inside Design Studio Eclipse) for developing an Extension for SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio. Doing this also...
View ArticleTutorial for creating a simple Custom Data Source.
I recently developed a custom data source extension to access indicator data from the World Bank API. It was my first crack at the Design Studio SDK, and I thought I’d upload a tutorial blog to help...
View ArticleSAP Lumira and SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio BW Integration | SAP TechEd...
At last year’s TechEd, my colleagues Jie Deng, Eric Schemer and I spoke at a session where we talked about plans for SAP Lumira’s integration with BW and Design Studio. In every repeat of this...
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