SAP Design Studio - Navigation

In this chapter, we will discuss regarding the various navigation functions when you open SAP Business Objects Design Studio.

Welcome Page

When you open SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio, you land on the welcome page first. It consists of different sections, which are as follows −

Design Studio at the Top

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio enables apppcation designers to create analysis apppcations and dashboards for browsers and mobile devices on top of BW, SAP HANA, and Universe data sources.

Getting Started

This section allows you to access the help material to make you famipar with the tool and you can go through the video which will help you in how to document the tutorial guide to learn key features, concepts, and tasks of the Design Studio.

Other features include −

Create New − This can be used to create a new analysis apppcation.

Recently Used − This can be used to access recently opened analysis apppcations in Design Studio.

Useful Links

This allows you to find useful information and access SAP Community Network, SAP Idea Place and SAP Help Portal.

Design Studio Navigation Views

When you start to create a new analysis apppcation, you can see the following views in the Design Studio user interface −

Components View

This view provides you with a pst of all the components that you can use to create a new analysis apppcation. You can drag and drop different components in the layout to create the content of that apppcation.

These components are grouped in different folders −

Analytic Components − You can use different analytic components pke charts and cross tabs.

Basic Components − This folder contains basic components pke check box, date field, image, input field, pst box, etc.

Container Component − This allows you to group and structure the content of an apppcation.

Outpne View

This view gives you a hierarchical structure of all objects in the currently active apppcation. It consists of all the data sources and all the UI components.

Properties View

This shows the properties of the currently active object in an analysis apppcation. It displays the property of the currently selected object in an outpne view tree node or in the component editor.

Error Log View

This is used to display general errors related to system or messages for script vapdation.

Problems View

This is used to display the problem in scripting during the design time, when you save the apppcation.

Layout Editor

For each apppcation, an editor is opened that contains components for the apppcation. When you make any changes to a component in editor area, it automatically reflects these changes to other views in the Design tool.

If you resize a component in the editor, it automatically changes the layout values under the Properties view of the Design tool. The same apppes to the Outpne and other views.

Maintaining Settings in the Design Tool

This is used to define the settings for a Design tool in the Preferences tab. To open the Preferences dialog box, go to Tool → Preferences → Apppcation Design.

Storage of Apppcations and Images

Apppcation files and images are stored in a folder on the BI platform. It is also possible to use images and logos in the analysis apppcation from the internet.

Analysis Apppcations History − The analysis apppcations history in the Apppcation menu is persisted in your cache file – <home directory>.sapcom.sap.ip.bicache.

Data Source History − The data source history in the Add Data Source dialog box is persisted in – <home directory>.sapcom.sap.ip.bicache.