Extending a SAP HANA Live view Example

Applies to:
SAP HANA Live apps

Summary
This document provides an example of how to extend a SAP HANA Live view. It also covers creating an
OData service for the extended view and incorporating it into a newly-created KPI.

Author:
Marcus Behrens

Company:
SAP

Created on: 05 November 2014

Author Bio
Product Manager, AI PO Mobile & Cross Product Services

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Pre-requisites ...................................................................................................................................................... 3
Procedure ........................................................................................................................................................... 3
Related Content ................................................................................................................................................ 29
Copyright........................................................................................................................................................... 30

Pre-requisites
1. SAP HANA Live content has been installed and configured on the HANA system
2. You have a user/password with developer privileges
3. You are able to use Smart Business framework

Procedure
1. Add your HANA system, user, and passwords in SAP HANA Studio.
2. Create a new package as follows:

3. Add a new calculation view to this package.

4. To do this, copy from one provided in Hana Live:

5. Explore the view and add a new calculated column for Aggregation.

6. In the new column use a formula to calculate the new value, for example.

7. Then save and activate the new view. Try out the new view by looking at test data:

8. In this example, the calculated column looks like this.

9. To be able to create an OData service definition file on the SAP HANA server, you first need to
create a repository workspace:

10. Then you create a new XS Project in the Project Explorer.

11. Give the project a name.

12. Share your project in the repository package you created earlier.

13. This should pull the new view into your project.

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14. Create a new XS OData file.

15. In the Repositories view, look for the OData file that came with the SAP HANA Live content.

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16. Copy the specific content needed for the new calculation view into your new xsodata file, and then
change the entries to match your package and query names.

17. Create a new .xs access file based on the basic template.

18. Lastly create a new app description file but use only a pair of curly braces.

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19. Save all the changes. Then, from the Team command, commit and activate the whole project.

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20. Your OData service is now live and ready to use. Now open SAP Fiori Launchpad for your user, start
the KPI workspace, and bring up the SAP-delivered KPI in order to duplicate it.

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21. Here you can create a new KPI, based on the SAP-delivered one, to incorporate the new service and
measure. Search for and find the HANA Live content you have just created, and then create a KPI.

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22. To check what metadata and data your OData service provided, use the OData Service above and
the URL of the app. Concatenate them to see the results.

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23. Save and activate the KPI, and then create an evaluation for it.

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24. You can, for example, define your own targets for this evaluation.

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25. Save and activate the evaluation. Now create a tile and activate it.

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26. Now go back into the KPI Workspace to create a drill-down configuration.

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27. Select Configure.

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28. Press the Plus icon (+) to add a new chart. Do this first.

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29. Select at least one measure (this really depends on your requirements) and one dimension.

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30. Select the chart type that fits your needs.

31. Provide a view id and and a title the end user will see, and save the chart.

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32. Now go to the Tile Catalog and add the new tile to your home page.

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33. Now you can launch the tile.

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34. This brings up the drill down.

35. This concludes the example.

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Related Content
How to Enhance SAP HANA Live
How to create your own query views based on HANA Live
SAP Fiori UX - Extensibility

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