Debugging your code efficiently on SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio
Learning to debug efficiently is as important as learning to code efficiently to become a coding master. If you are looking to become a coding master for SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio applications,...
View ArticleASUG BI Webinar List - September 2015
Here the updated list of webinars for September 2015 For all webinars : Start Time : 11:00 AM (CT), 12:00 PM (ET), 10:00 AM (MT), 9:00 AM (PT)Duration : 1 hour September 08 - BICCs: Key to BI Success...
View ArticleA study of getData / getDataAsString method
getData is a very useful method. However, I found it a little bit more complex than I thought initially. Thus, I did some tests to understand its behaviors. There are 3 notes described in the content...
View ArticleAbout demanding clients and pushy servers
Client-side processing, Polling and WebSockets (push) Dear community, By introducing my newest contributions to the DesignStudio community SDK repository I would like to show you guys what is possible...
View ArticleYour chance to learn more about SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio
Are you wondering how you could move away from BEx Web Analyzer and migrate to SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio ? Are you thinking about migrating all you Xcelsius / Dashboards content over to SAP...
View ArticleMeet ASUG TechEd Speaker Mustafa Bensan and learn how to Apply a Fresh Face...
IntroductionAfter having participated in SAP TechEd Las Vegas as an attendee for the last couple of years, this year I'm thrilled to have been given the opportunity to present ASUG session BA123 Apply...
View ArticleLearn about experiences extending Design Studio and and SAP Lumira using the...
Introduction Taking a cue from the good Mustafa Bensan's blog entry (Meet ASUG TechEd Speaker Mustafa Bensan and learn how to Apply a Fresh Face to Your BI Apps with SAP BusinessObjects Design...
View ArticleSerious Issue with Design Studio 1.5 SP1 on BIP
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...
View ArticleDesign Studio Update – APOS Webcast Recap
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...
View ArticleDesign Studio Update #askSAP Call
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...
View ArticleYour First Extension: Part 0 - Setting Up Eclipse
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)...
View ArticleYour First Extension: A tutorial for building Design Studio extensions
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...
View ArticleDesign Studio Roadmap September EMEA Webcast
This was an EMEA webcast I attended this morning. Please note, the title of the webcast was roadmap, but the roadmap wasn’t covered until the last few minutes. I will highlight some new things I...
View ArticleDesign Studio SDK: UI5 Table with Conditional Formats
Following the blog Design Studio SDK: New Features in UI5 Table, today the Conditional Format function. if you want to:* display the data from any data source in a table* highlight some cell values...
View ArticleHorizon Chart extension for Design Studio - Part 1
It's been a while since my last extension and I thought it was high time I got back in the mix. Over the summer I had the opportunity to see a great post by @NadiehBremer on Twitter about horizon plots...
View ArticleDesign Studio: Parallel Processing and Scripting
Getting started with parallel processing is easy. Assign data sources to processing groups, set “Merge Prompts” to false, and just execute the application. While this is true in general, there are some...
View ArticleDesign Studio: Why is HANA Studio Faster?
Every now and then the Design Studio development team is contacted by people using Design Studio applications with data stored on HANA, reporting that the execution time of a data source in Design...
View ArticleYour First Extension: Part 1 - Project Creation
Currently, there is no project wizard for creating Design Studio extensions. Likewise, creating projects by hand from scratch is not recommended - due to complexity of configuration. Yes, it is...
View ArticleCSS Tips & Tricks: Customizing Radio Buttons and Check Boxes in SAP...
Have you ever wondered why Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) when applied to SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio have no effect on Radio Buttons and Check Boxes? Read this blog to know why and how you can...
View ArticleCSS Tips & Tricks: Customizing Radio Buttons and Check Boxes in SAP...
In my previous blog, we discussed how Radio buttons and Check boxes are styled in SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio and how to identify the images used by these components in SAP BusinessObjects Design...
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