Video: SAP Analytics Cloud Application Design – Overview & Filters [2019.4 – preview]

In this video I give an introduction to the upcoming Application Design feature in SAP Analytics Cloud, including several ways to filter a chart using the new App Design widgets and scripts.

SAP Lumira books combi deal at SAP Press

SAP Press offers a very nice mid-winter deal, as you can now get both the SAP Lumira books (Designer and Discovery) with a 20% discount!

To take advantage of this deal, you only have to add both books to your shopping cart at SAP-Press.com. The discount will be added automatically and you don’t need a coupon code.

SAP Lumira, Discovery edition – The Comprehensive Guide

SAP Lumira, Designer edition – The Comprehensive Guide (3rd edition)

SAP Design Studio Roadmap minor – but interesting – update

To my surprise a new roadmap for SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio was published last week: version July 22 2015. This is only two months after the previous update (May 5 2015) and it is still covering the same current 1.5 release. You can find the roadmap here (S-account required).

I went through it and made some comparisons:

Searching for changes with last roadmap (05/04): “Offline enhancements” are out of Planned Innovations… pic.twitter.com/lqqUPJqbA0

— Xavier Hacking (@xjhacking) July 26, 2015

Design Studio focus will be on BI Platform and HANA deployments. New BW depl investments are NOT PLANNED! pic.twitter.com/2TnOYExPyA

— Xavier Hacking (@xjhacking) July 26, 2015

New Design Studio roadmap also gives a nice feature support matrix for all deployment options: pic.twitter.com/6cLviVHzTp

— Xavier Hacking (@xjhacking) July 26, 2015

Conclusion: SAP BI Platform deployment is the #1 option if you want most/all of the Design Studio features. #SAPDesignStudio

— Xavier Hacking (@xjhacking) July 26, 2015

Design Studio 1.3 Q&A Chat Replay

We did our SAP Design Studio 1.3 Q&A chat for SAPinsider last night, which was a lot of fun. If you weren’t able to join us, you can check the ‘replay’ here. Later this week also an edited transcript of the chat will be posted.

Update: The transcript is available!

New SAPexperts article: How to Use CSS in Design Studio

I wrote another article for the SAPexperts online knowledge base. In line with some of my recent posts here on my blog this one is all about CSS, but now more from a basic, 101 course standpoint.

In this article I give a basic introduction to the language of CSS and explain how it can be used in combination with Design Studio, either on a local installation or with a connection to an SAP BusinessObjects BI4 platform or an SAP NetWeaver BW environment. I also discuss how you can change the default CSS styles of the standard Design Studio components.

If you have an subscription to the SAPexperts BI hub you can check the article here.