I'll try not to repeat what I wrote
here but yesterday's webcast provided more details. Replay is
here.
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The legal disclaimer applies that anything in the future is subject to change.
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For data discovery, now position analytics cloud
Reporting is unchanged
Discovery is still being worked on
SAP Analytics Cloud is the story use case
Application Design will be GA sometime this summer
SAP Lumira Designer
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Improve cross tab scrolling performance, for large datasets
Re-thought application start-up; a pain point – application start-up- why do they take so long to start up? Now should be fixed
Allow copy-paste in crosstab; previously had to use spreadsheet
Support for variants/datasources
New authoring component for online composition (1.6 comp and is now better)
Unrestricted nesting for composites
You can bookmark composites
Adding html formatting for comments
Chart enhancements - lifted 10K points on charts; caveat – still only display 10K, and what you can
Refresh offline/acquired data source
Scripting into the components
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2 kinds of variants
You can choose to have document variants – saved on BI platform – function on all data sources; almost like personalization
Other option – data source specific – query specific
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Long requested, at run-time, create a new column; simple calculations – not a full-on editor
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Introduce copy/paste support
Performance improvements as well
Add and remove totals via drag and drop
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Now nest composites within each other
Surface bookmarks – significant improvement
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Added for reference lines
Handle more than 10K means "the chart still displays when the 10K limit is reached, but with a warning that not all data can be displayed rather than simply refusing to display the chart." (David Stocker)
SAP Lumira Discovery
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Improve filters & linked analysis
Create multiple measure filters
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User can enable or disable filter propagation in the filter dialog of each dimension. This option will be enabled only for dimension that are linked. On enabling the filter propagation, user can now choose to show/hide the auto generated filters. On choosing to show the auto generated filters, these will be displayed in the filter bar with disabled state and user will not have an option to either edit or delete it.
In the source chart, user should be able to select all dimensions as scope for filtering target charts, based on selection in source chart. For "All Dimensions", the current set of dimensions will have to be considered. Ideally, any new dimension added to the source chart should get considered for element linking after it is added to chart.
User should be able to define multiple measure filters. Eg: Consider a viz with country ,city and sales revenue plotted in viz or cross tab. The operator between the measure filters is AND
A user should be able to 1) create a measure filter where sales revenue > 2000000 2) And the second measure filter where quantity sold in > 750000
User should be able to display totals for cross tab having measure filters. Totals should be supported in case of blended viz, calculated measures also. (Source: SAP)
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The size of the appendix page is A4, irrespective of the size of the rest of the PDF. The requirement is to set the appendix page same as the page size for rest of the pages. In case different pages in the PDF are set to different sizes (due to the pages of the story being of different sizes), the appendix page size should be same as the last page of the PDF (besides the appendix
User should be able to specify if he wants to add the crosstabs in the appendix while scheduling/broadcasting a document. All/None options for now.
Title of crosstabs should show in exported PDF. If a crosstab spans across pages, we should show the title on each page
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The Language support for designer and Discovery document for SAP BW Data source the behavior is consistent across all the Designer /Discovery/Lumira Add-on in case of View and Schedule of Documents
Support for different formats like Decimal Separator, Number of digits after decimal, Digit grouping symbol, Digit Grouping
Respect Language while Viewing or Scheduling the document based on the user’s PVL and Language configured in OLAP connection would override the user’s PVL. Support is only for BW Data Source (Source: SAP)
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If user wants to view the latest instance of the document on Double click then under Applications SAP Lumira, in the Lumira properties select smart view option as “View Latest Instance”
“View Latest instance” is set as Default
User should be able to specify if he wants to add the crosstabs/Filters in the appendix while scheduling/broadcasting a document by selecting the options. (Source: SAP)
Roadmap
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Plan to share velocity data sets to SAP Analytics Cloud
Open SAP Analytics Cloud datasets in on-prem application (can do this now in Analysis Office)
Use calc/restricted key figures at run time
Minor tricks for planning
Extension of self-service in designer apps
Question & Answer
Thank you David Stocker & Ashutosh Rastogi for this webcast. I missed last week's session. Are there any other sessions from last week that should be repeated as webcasts? Please comment below.