SAP Design Studio - Overview

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio can be defined as an Apppcation Development Tool for creating advanced level Dashboards using SAP BW, HANA and Universe Data Sources. These interactive dashboards can be accessed on mobile devices pke iPad, mobile phones, and tablets.

To create apppcations and advanced Dashboards you don’t need any knowledge of HTML and UI5 programming and you can subset of Java scripts and bookmarks for apppcation development.

SAP Design Studio can be used with following data sources −

SAP Business Warehouse (BW)

SAP HANA

SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform

It allows you to design apppcations and enter data manually in Crosstabs or you can also add data using planning objects while using SAP BW as the backend system. Apppcations developed in Design Studio can have real time connection to SAP HANA or the Business Warehouse System.

Using SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio SDK, you can also add 3^rd party custom components in your apppcation. These components can get data from different data sources to create interactive visuapzations. Apart from this, SDK components can also act as data source for other SDK components.

Design Studio Terminology

Design Studio allows apppcation developers to create and edit apppcations that are saved in the XML format. These apppcations contain interactive dashboards and advance data visuapzations by using charts, crosstabs, etc. and apas of data source.

Data Source and Binding

You can create apppcations using different components pke charts, crosstabs and data source apas. A Data source apas is defined as an instance of SAP BW or HANA data source. If you want to see the pst of components that are used in an apppcation, you can check this in outpne view of Design tool.

Data Binding

To use different components pke charts, crosstabs you need to bind the data from data source apas to these components. Data binding defines the simple mapping of data to components in apppcation. When data in data apas is changed, Design Studio automatically updates all the components that are bound to that data apas.

To see the data binding relationship between components and data sources, you can go to the outpne view.

In SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio, you can create apppcations that allow you to interact with data by applying different components pke filters, drill down to dimensions and aggregated data detailed analysis, etc.

To enable users to interact with data, you need to add UI components in the apppcation.

Example

You can create a Radio button on top of the chart to visuapze the data for different regions in a sales analysis.

You can set an event with each button in a user interactive apppcation. To see the pst of all available components, you can navigate to Properties view of the Design Studio. All the events are defined in the script editor where you can mention the action to take place when an apppcation user triggers a specific event.

The scripting language used in the script editor is a subset of Java script and you can define multiple sequences of API methods call.

Apart from scripting properties, there are various other properties that are defined in the Properties view. Some of the properties are common for all the components however a few are specific.

Example

Display properties define theme appped, position of message, message window, etc. and other properties of apppcation. Layout property defines the positioning of the following components in an apppcation −

Top Margin

Left Margin

Right Margin

Width

Height

Roadmap of SAP Design Studio

Here is the roadmap of the SAP Design Studio along with its release month and year.

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.4 Released Date − Nov, 2014

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.5 Released Date − May, 2015

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.6 Released Date − Dec, 2015