hana sps07 modeling enhancements

What´s New? SAP HANA SPS 07Modeling Enhancements (Delta from SPS 06 to SPS 07)SAP HANA Product Management November, 2013

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SAP HANA SPS 07 - Modeling EnhancementsOverview

Unifying the SAP HANA Modeling Experience Enriching the model and enhancing the design capabilities

– Enhanced Semantic Properties Authoring– Improved Insight and overview in the model scenario

Enhancing Calculation Views capabilities

Modeling Productivity Enhancements Enhanced performance through background object loading Introducing Undo/Redo capabilities Propagation option for renamed and new columns New Join Properties dialog Enhanced Expression Editor (autocompletion, autoproposal, …)

Unified Editor Enhancements


SAP HANA SPS 07 - Unified Model Editor Enhancements

Semantic Node – New capabilities and enhancements

Semantic Node – Column List Enhanced Semantic Properties Authoring

– Enable semantics properties for attributes and measures– Edit calculated columns– Persist order of attributes and measures– Enhanced Where-used analysis for columns,

Input Parameters, Variables, …– Output column data type properties



Semantic Node Column List – Semantic Type

Semantic Type Properties Enable semantics properties for attributes and measures

– Geo-Types for use with reporting clients– Date-Types– Currency and Unit-Types

> incl. conversion specifications



Currency and Quantity Conversion

Client and Type parameterization via Attribute All parameters for currency and quantity conversion can be linked to

another view column many input parameters can be avoided.



Semantic Node – Where Used References

Where Used References Enhanced Where-used analysis now supports

– Columns, Calculated Columns, Input Parameters, Variables– Called from sematic or output-pane



Where Used Enhancement

Where Used Analysis Enhancement Direct opening of referenced objects in Model Where-Used List Refresh action to check for changed references


SAP HANA SPS 07 - Unified Model Editor Enhancements Semantic Node – New capabilities and enhancements

Semantic Node – Properties Area Default Client

– renamed values and enhanced calculation view support New Data Category property*

– Default “<empty>” | CUBE | DIMENSION Apply Privileges

– Select standard Analytic Privilege or SQL Analytic Privilege (for BW Models only with SPS 07)

Enhanced Default Schema selection dialog

*replaces multidimensional reporting flag relevant mostly for calculation views

Calculation View

Analytic View

Attribute View


SAP HANA SPS 07 - Unified Model Editor Enhancements Semantic Node – View Properties

New Data Category property* Default “<empty>”

– View is not enabled for multidimensional reporting, the input to the Semantics node is defaulted with a projection node

CUBE – Enabled for multidimensional reporting, the input to the Semantics node is

defaulted with an Aggregation node (or Calculation View Star Join-node)

DIMENSION– View is not enabled for multidimensional reporting, the input to the

Semantics node is defaulted with a projection node– A calculation view of type Dimension is created

*replaces multidimensional reporting flag


SAP HANA SPS 07 - Unified Model Editor Enhancements General Dialog Enhancements

Less clicks for column selection dialogs Direct Click to add Add button directly appends list Delete via delete key or delete button

Easier and clearer Join dialogs Enhanced join setting control dialog

alternative to using properties window


SAP HANA SPS 07 - Unified Model Editor EnhancementsVariable and Input Parameter Enhancements

Variable & Parameter Creation Enhancements External views, tables supported for value help dialog

– In the UI you can either specify an attribute only (like today) or you specify a view / table and an attribute/column. In the latter case the value help lists all attributes/columns of the view/table.

Variable Mapping from incoming views


SAP HANA SPS 07 - Unified Model Editor EnhancementsVariable and Input Parameter Enhancements

Input Parameter Creation Enhancements.

Input Type specification – Unit of Measure is now supported– Description and Short Description as value help

for currency default value


SAP HANA SPS 07 - Unified Model Editor EnhancementsScenario Node Details

Choose to show column names and description.

• Column type icon indicator shown

• As default shortened Technical Name and Description is shown

• Context Menu to change display– Enable/Disable to show complete Name

(full technical name)– Enable/Disable show description

default enabled full namedisabled full name

disabled description


SAP HANA SPS 07 - Unified Model Editor EnhancementsAnalytic View Enhancements

Distinct Count Measures

• Distinct Counter (Counter) type measures, can be defined for view columns (similar to calculation views)


SAP HANA SPS 07 - Unified Model Editor EnhancementsData Foundation Filter Enhancements

Filter Expression Enhancements “Contains” is now supported as filter operator

Input Parameter Support for Filter on Data Foundation IP references can now also be used (typed in) or selected

from value help dialog* for filters on data foundation in Analytic and Attribute Views

*Not in Attribute view Data Foundation


SAP HANA SPS 07 - Unified Model Editor Enhancements Expression Editor Enhancements

Expression Editor Enhancements Enhanced Expression Editor for Calculated Columns and Filter

expression, use CRTL+SPACE for– Autoproposal for columns, function sceletons and function

arguments, Input Parameters, …– Autocompletiton– Highlighting– Expression validation, highlighting wrong arguments, checking

for correct data types

Also for variable and input parameter default expression dialog


SAP HANA SPS 07 - Unified Model Editor Enhancements Multidimensional Reporting Clients Navigation Flags

Navigational Behavior Flags for Multidimensional Reporting Clients SPS 07 new Behavior and Property “Drill Down Enablement”*

Both these flags have been combined into a single property "Drill Down Enablement" with the following possible values.

– <blank>: Not available for drill down operations and no additional flat hierarchy is generated. – Drill Down : Attribute appears as a separate dimension in the client tools and it is available

for drill down operation. – Drill Down with Hierarchy : The attribute is enabled for drill down and an additional flat

hierarchy is generated for attribute. In that hierarchy all the distinct attribute values make up the first and only level of the hierarchy. The hierarchy enables the attribute for drill down in MDX based tools.

*Replaces and combines properties "Drill down enabled" and "Hierarchy Active“

Also refer to 1934485 - Release Note for SAP HANA Modeler SPS 07

https://css.wdf.sap.corp/sap/support/notes/1934485







SAP HANA SPS 07 - Unified Model Editor Enhancements Hierarchy Advanced Capabilities

Hierarchy Design Advanced Options (revisited) Add a Root Node

– Add an All member to the Hierarchy. – Default it is set On for level hierarchies and Off for parent-child hierarchies.

The user can now optionally turn it On or Off on either hierarchy– Note for Level Hierarchieso All member in a level hierarchy that has the name “(all)”.o With no all member, there are multiple root members at level 0.

The default member becomes the first member at level 0.

– Note for a parent-child hierarchieso If a root node is added, this member has an empty name in the hierarchy.

It does have a caption “(all)”.


SAP HANA SPS 07 - Unified Model Editor Enhancements Hierarchy Advanced Capabilities

Hierarchy Design Advanced Options(revisited) User defined default member

– Default Hierarchy member can be specified to a user-defined setting.– The entry must be a fully qualified valid member unique name of the

hierarchy, else you get an error and the hierarchy cannot be instantiated. o The default member can be anywhere in the hierarchy – it just has to be a valid

member.o The entry field is plain text and is not checked or verified by the modeler.

Note: a user defined default member is implicitly used for the aggregations (when dimensions is not explicitly referenced in the query context) and appears as the default member on the slicer.


SAP HANA SPS 07 - Unified Model Editor EnhancementsData Preview

Data Preview in SAP HANA Studio Optimized query generation (analysis preview), with much better performance!

New option to open the SQLEditor

New generated query code

Old generated query code

Calculation View Enhancements


SAP HANA SPS 07 - Calculation View enhancementsCalculation View Scenario Layout

Scenario Layout-ing capabilities Zoom Auto-Layout Resizing of Nodes (also for ATVs, ANVs) State is saved and persisted (resized nodes and

elapse/collapse state) Alternative Flyout Tool-Palette


SAP HANA SPS 07 - Calculation View enhancementsCalculation View Scenario Insight

Scenario Overview enhancements Calculation View Modeling enhancement

– Improved Insight and overview in to the model by indicating join type, cardinality and filters indicators in scenario panel

– Filter expression (mouse over)


SAP HANA SPS 07 - Calculation View enhancementsChanging Calculation Views

Insertion of Nodes Better refactoring of calculation views via insertion / re-connection of nodes without loosing semantic information Connections between nodes can be deleted and new nodes inserted, while the definition of the subsequent nodes are kept

and automatically remapped, when connection to the inserted node is defined The rearrangement of nodes capabilities have been enhanced to support drop of new nodes on top of object references

within existing nodes


SAP HANA SPS 07 - Calculation View enhancementsColumn Changes Propagation

Propagation of Columns Changes Renamed column names from lower nodes

can be propagated the changed name up to the sematic node

New columns added to lower nodes can be propagated up to the sematic node

Conflict Handling


SAP HANA SPS 07 - Improved modeling experienceCreating Calculation Views

Calculation View authoring Overview Start with preselecting the calculation view data category,

which defaults the top output-node (can be switched later)– CUBE (aggregation-node)– DIMENSION (projection-node)

For data category CUBE and Star Join selected– New StarJoin-based calculation view scenario is modeled

(details see following slides)


SAP HANA SPS 07 - Calculation View enhancementsDimension Calculation Views

Dimension-Type Calculation View View is not enabled for multidimensional reporting, the input to the

Semantics node is defaulted with a projection node A calculation view of type Dimension is created Key Attributes and Hierarchies can be specified Dynamic Input Structures using mapped parameters are supported,

of which dynamic Hierarchy structures can be composed

Usage Scenario Star-Join Calculation Views

(details see following slides)


SAP HANA SPS 07 - Calculation View enhancementsDimension Calculation Views and Advanced Hierarchies Scenarios

Usage of Parameters in Hierarchies Not supported for Attribute View Hierarchies. Supported only for Calculation Views (Data Category “Dimension”)

– The calculation view defining the hierarchy maybe composed of an underlying view using parameters, these must be passed and mapped to the calculation view.

– With SPS 07 parts of the hierarchy definition itself can be made dependent on parameters. Most important use cases areo Setting Root Node values with mapped Input Parameters (Parent-Child Hierarchies)o Using parameter in calculated columns,

used to build hierarchies.


SAP HANA SPS 07 - Calculation View enhancementsStar Join Calculation Views

Enhancing Calculation Views with Star Join capabilities Joining fact input data flows with multiple dimension views in a single node

– Fact Input flow can be any custom calculation flow of nodes– Other, only Calculation Views of Data Category Dimension are allowed as input

Dimension Properties– All DIM-View Attributes are automatically part of the StarJoin (incl. Hierarchies) – DIM-Views are added as shared (referenced) dimensions, changes to dimension

views are immediately available– Local hierarchies can also be defined

Measures, like Counters use the dimension reference, hence can reference to attributes hidden from the output

UseCase Make use of special Calculation View Dimension capabilities

(e.g. parameterized Hierarchies) or multiple fact-table inputImportant Note: Star Join currently cannot regarded a replacement for Analytic View capability, especially as it has not been optimized for aggregation performance yet.


SAP HANA SPS 07 – Calculation View enhancementsCalculation View Properties

Session Client Property Previous to SPS 07 for calculation views the default client property wasn’t

honored correctly by the calculation– Session Client or a Fixed Client values were treated as Cross Client (Dynamic)– Note embedded conversion settings honored the default client values

With SPS 07 default client settings are honored correctly for calculation views

– For compatibility reasons, opening pre-SPS 07 calculation views are initially set to cross-client and must be explicitly set and saved as Session Client.

– Note take especially care with default client behavior and conversion settings

Also refer to 1934485 - Release Note for SAP HANA Modeler SPS 07








SAP HANA SPS 07 – Calculation View enhancementsMisc. Enhancements

Other Calculation View enhancements New Icons used for Aggregation-Node, Input Parameter, Counter Restricted measure are now supported


SAP HANA SPS 07 – Calculation View enhancementsScripted Calculation Views

Target Column Creation

• Copy/paste in output structure is now supported- Incl. multiple selection + move

- delete

Other Enhancements


SAP HANA SPS 07 - Modeling Productivity and Developer Enhancements Open Model Performance

Better Model opening performance Loading of referenced resources

occurs in background Yellow decorators are shown

while loading


SAP HANA SPS 07 – Modeling Productivity and Developer Enhancements Developer Productivity

Developer Productivity Enhancements Support for Undo/Redo from the Eclipse Toolbar for View-Editor Actions

– Undo-Tool from the Eclipse Toolbar, – Redo-Tool from the Eclipse Toolbar

Model copy/paste, original name is proposed as new name Paste is enabled on objects type folder in package


SAP HANA SPS 07 – Modeling Productivity and Developer Enhancements New Validation Rules

Consolidated Model Validation Rules

• Validation Rules are evaluated, when saving and activating models

• Validation rules have been rewritten– Almost 20 dropped – Now part of 14 combined rules– Used with SAP HANA Modeler - and

SAP HANA Development-Perspective (Team Provider)


SAP HANA SPS 07 - Unified Model Editor Enhancements SQLEditor Use

• SAP HANA System Toolbar- Is now always enabled (not only when catalog tree is used)

- Access to SQLEditor-Icon is enabled when working in the content tree


SAP HANA SPS 07 – SAP HANA Studio

LogOff Behavior

Logon/LogOff Behavior SAP HANA Studio LogOff for SAP HANA connections can be explicitly set

– Global settings– Active LogOff from system connection

Logon-Dialog at connection initialization


SAP HANA SPS 07 – SAP HANA Studio Enhancements

Renaming and Grouping of SAP HANA Studio Objects

SAP HANA Studio Eclipse Views

SAP HANA Studio Eclipse Perspectives

SAP HANA Studio Eclipse New-Dialog

SAP HANA Studio Eclipse Preferences


SAP HANA SPS 07 – Other Enhancements and New CapabilitiesDecision Table Editor

Integrated Decision Table Editor Aligns with the SAP HANA Model Editor Enabled also in the SAP HANA Development perspective


SAP HANA SPS 07 – Other Enhancements and New CapabilitiesAnalytic Privilege Validity

Analytic Privileges introduce new Validity Attributes

• Validity Attribute– Can be a/multiple time spans– If time span is not true, then no data is returned– Inclusion check for selected dates


SAP HANA SPS 07 – Other Enhancements and New CapabilitiesAutodocumentation Enhancements

Autodocumentation Enhancements Adopting new validation rules New structure, Renamed sections and Order Icons used to visually identify objects Additional information

– General section: Fields like “Default Client”, ….– Label Column, Unit and Currency Column information– Column mapping details in Calculation Views– Filters on Columns

– Default Value expression


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