Baby Steps - Creating an HTML5 Chart Wrapper with Design Studio 1.2 SDK
I decided to see how easy it would be to create an HTML5 Chart Wrapper component Addon using the new Design Studio SDK. I have a pretty good background on writing several Xcelsius addons both in Flex...
View ArticleDS 1.2 SDK Example - Embedding Xcelsius SWFs (not for Mobile, of course)
I decided to see what kind of a Frankenstein creation I could make work by parameterizing a DS Addon to drive an embedded SWF (Xcelsius, even) for fun. This of course will fail miserably for mobile...
View ArticleSAP Design Studio Tips & Tricks #4 – Collapsible panels for richer user...
SAP Design Studio Tips & Tricks SeriesTraditional dashboards tend to have selection panel(s) on the left or on the top. However with mobile dashboards every pixel is a luxury, and jQuery-like...
View ArticleReview of updates to Design Studio Book for 1.2
SAP Mentor Ingo Hilgeforthas updated his Design Studio eBook to include 1.2 - he mentioned this Updated eBook for SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.2 In addition to covering updates, he includes...
View ArticleOptimize the performance of your SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio solutions...
Optimize the performance of your SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio solutions – tips and tricks SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio allows you to build solutions on SAP Netweaver, SAP HANA and...
View ArticleBEx Quo Vadis? ASUG Webcast Part 2, Focusing on Design Studio
Today ASUG had a BEx Quo Vadis webcast, with 57 questions in the question and answer. Interest was quite high. Part 1 is BEx Quo Vadis? BI Client Recommendations for BEx Customers ASUG Webcast Part 1...
View ArticleDesign Studio Tips and Tricks: Measuring Performance
Why is this blog posted NOW?Recently Design Studio 1.2 has been released. This new version brings a whole lot of new cool things. Especially the performance of Design Studio applications has been...
View ArticleLearning Path with HR Dashboards
Hi Everyone,As you can see in my bio, I'm a former BusinessObjects employee and I have been working for Global IT for 7 years with a key leitmotiv: “Change how the business is dealing with numbers...
View ArticleHow to reduce the number of Data sources in Design Studio
Hi colleagues, As explained in a previous blog, we have worked with students on the implementation of a solution for HR organization using BW and Design Studio 1.1 and 1.2.You can find below the...
View ArticleHow to install Design studio add-on in a Distributed Landscape
Purpose:The purpose of this document is to give a high level understanding of how the Design studio add-on should be installed in a Distributed BusinessObjects Enterprise (BOE) or BI Platform (BIP)...
View ArticleFirst try in SDK, building a bar chart with benchmark option in D3
Gaining experience with the SDK. I thought about addressing something that is being asked by customers quite often. A benchmark chart. Usually Dashboards of larger organizations show a lot of benchmark...
View ArticleMy first impression on Design Studio 1.2 vs WAD vs Dashboard
Hi Guys, I have started working with design studio 1.2 after been working with previous version of Design Studio-1.0/1.1 & WAD & Dashboards(Xcelsius)and went live for production with Design...
View ArticleInternationalize DesignStudio Applications by reusing RSBEXTEXTS table from...
Hi community, in my last DesignStudio customer training my participants were discussing about possibilities to internationalize a DesignStudio application. Here is a way that seems to be a good one...
View ArticleDS 1.2 SDK - Rapid Prototyping Addon HTML/JS Templating
Update: Since there was enough interest, here's the source code available on GitHub (Hey, SCN, since you killed Code Exchange, you got a better place for me to stick it? (No pun intended.)...
View ArticleCreate chart with completely manual values without SDK component
Hi community,as you know you can do a lot of calculations in the scripting areas of design_studio. These calculated values can be presented in Text Field components very easily using the "setText"...
View ArticleDS 1.2 SDK - Use both sides - Double Sided Tiles
Like they said in school. Use both sides of your paper! Below is an extension of my HTML Templating example, with some CSS3 flipping goodness. Inspired by the SCN Reputation Missions tiles that you...
View ArticleDesign Studio dashboard application based on a Universe as a data source -...
Very kindly one of Santa's little helpers gave me a copy of "Mastering SAP Design Studio" by Ingo Hilgefort just before Christmas which encouraged me to use a few of the quiet days over the Christmas...
View ArticleDS 1.2 SDK - Building a SAPUI5 Toolbar
While you can use the BI Action Language (BIAL) in Design Studio to simulate a toolbar, and even play with toggling of states and repositioning hidden buttons, it is a lot of overhead and math to do...
View ArticleHow to enable hierachical display of rows/columns in Initial View
Hi all, i'm using DesignStudio since version 1.0 but it took me until today to find out that it is possible to enable the hierarchical display of the elements in the Initial View editor. Sometimes it...
View ArticleDesign Studio 1.2 SDK - Enhancing the 'Simple Table' SDK Component
I recently saw a question in the SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio space asking how to make a selectable version of the Simple Table example provided with the Design Studio SDK. Below was my approach...
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