SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.4 has been released at 26th November 2014. Here you can find collection of all release information which is available.
UPDATE 12th December 2014
- see for patch delivery information in the bottom of this blog
UPDATE / 10pm CET - All Parts / Add-Ons are available
- Support Packages are already available (for selective download)
- Installation Package also available - but this is required only if you want to have all parts as single download (4GB).
.Entry Point is the Product Availability Matrix with links to:.
- Essentials: PAM Additional Information (direct link)
- in this document you can find the supported systems for data sources, platform and functionality prerequisites.
- Documentation Site (direct link to Help Portal)
- at this site all relevant documentation documents are available:
- What's New
- summary of features delivered with this Design Studio release, see
- Installation, Configuration, Security and Administration Information
- Installation guides for BI Platform, NetWeaver and Client deployment, see
- Development Information
- All information for Software Development Kit (SDK) of Design Studio, also with package containing simple components build with SDK as examples, see
- Application Help
- contains documentation for application developers, see
- End-User Information and Additional Information
- Release Notes
- Release note for Initial Shipment (Note 1948049)
- this note will also be actualized as soon some important information needs to be published
- Release note for Support Package Schedule (Note 1760372)
- Link to Download Area:
Additional Information
Important help in case of support - notes which help you and SAP in support process
Sizing Note
Important Hints (release 1.4) in short:
- Client installers do not need any more SAP JRE installation (SAP JVM is delivered with Design Studio)
- Pay attention to platform dependent functionality (see PAM Additional Information PDF)
- Translation and Bookmarking on NW require new support packages (see notes)
- Translation on BIP is not supported in release 1.5
- Online Composition & Global Scripts are supported only on BIP platform (support on NW planned for SP01)
Known Issues and Solutions (from 1.3 release)
Design Studio BI Platform Add-On
Design Studio NetWeaver Add-On
Design Studio Client (documentation will follow)
- Installation does not start, currently the solution is to backup and remove 2 folders in user folder:
- folder: %USERPROFILE%\Analysis-config
- folder: %USERPROFILE%\Analysis-workspace
- Upgrade Issue from Design Studio 1.1 release with support package smaller than SP3 - solution is to uninstall the 1.1 release first and then make fresh install of 1.2 release.
Feel free to ask any questions related to technical aspects of this release - I will try to answer and actualize this site.
UPDATE 12th December 2014
* today there is a patch 1 for SP0 released, see SAP Note
Design Studio 1.4 Patch1, note 2105998.
- the correction delivered is related to issue in SDK infrastructure - sometimes SDK components were not updated when data has been changed in data source.
- CLIENT + BIP ADD-ON are released, NW ADD-ON is still in process, latest on Monday also NW ADD-ON will be visible.
UPDATE 26th January 2015
* the patch 2 is released, it addresses the issue described in SAP Note:
2108969 - Script APIs setFilter, getData and others don't work with JSON parameters and concatenated...
and thread: Error with some values while using setFilterExt
UPDATE 26th February 2015
* the Support Package 01 is released, it addresses issues described in SAP Note: Design Studio 1.4 SP1, note 2095397
* direct link to download: service.sap.com -> DS 1.4 SP1 downloads
