The script given above can be embedded within a component such as an Icon or a Toggle Button that allows end-users to switch on and switch off Authoring at runtime when required. The only way to make other containers ‘authorable’ is to use scripts, like we have done above. So far, we can only assign a Composite as an Authoring Area to the Authoring component using its properties. To enable authoring for the end users on this panel, the application designer must first ‘enable’ authoring using the following script: This Sales Details View consists of a panel with a Crosstab and a Table within. This can simply be done directly by the end-user (so long as the option has been enabled by the application designer when creating the application). With the ability to create components at runtime (available as of SAP Lumira Designer 2.1), and the newly introduced ‘Authoring’ feature in SAP Lumira Designer 2.2, end-users need not contact the Application Designers to do this kind of Ad-Hoc analysis on their dashboards anymore. Let us say that the user wants to see State and Region level Sales data in this view just for temporary analysis. Quick Ad-Hoc Analysis – A Use Case for AuthoringĬonsider the Sales Details view shown in the image below. This can be done using scripting, or through properties of the technical component itself. Once the technical component is in place, it comes down to the developer to define which area of the application the user can ‘author’ in – meaning, the area of the application that the user can move components around in. This is just the first step to setting up this feature. Setting your application up for AuthoringĬreate an instance of the ‘Authoring’ technical component by right clicking on the technical components section in the Outline tab and selecting menu option Create -> Authoring. We will be throwing more light on this on a more detailed blog on Authoring. However, this has a limitation, which is that the ‘Authored’ dashboard cannot always be saved.
While users can still ‘Author’ the dashboard based on other container components through scripting. using the properties of the Authoring technical component. Pre-requisites for AuthoringĬomposites in SAP Lumira Designer 2.2 are the only components which are supported as an area for authoring directly, i.e. In this blog, we’ll describe steps to set up a basic authoring feature in Designer applications. This, of course, is a feature that must be provided by the application designers, and this is done using a new Technical Component called ‘ Authoring’. As an extension, SAP Lumira Designer 2.2 now provides users the ability to create their own components, modify their size and position and save the state of their applications at runtime. SAP Lumira Designer 2.1 allowed users to create components at runtime. Lumira Designer has been adding features to enrich the self-service experience of its applications.
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