SAP HANA SPS 07 Modeling Enhancements

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

November, 2013

SAP HANA SPS 07 - Modeling Enhancements

Overview
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
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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, …)

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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


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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


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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.


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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


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


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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

Calculation View

Analytic View

Attribute View

*replaces multidimensional

reporting flag
relevant mostly for calculation views


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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
– A calculation view of type Dimension is created

*replaces multidimensional reporting flag

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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

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Variable 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


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Variable 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


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Scenario 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 name

disabled full name
disabled description

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Analytic View Enhancements
Distinct Count Measures
• Distinct Counter (Counter) type measures, can be defined for
view columns (similar to calculation views)


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Data 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

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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


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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

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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 Hierarchies
o 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 hierarchies
o If a root node is added, this member has an empty name in the hierarchy.
It does have a caption “(all)”.


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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.


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

Old generated query code

 New option to open the SQLEditor


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SAP HANA SPS 07 - Calculation View enhancements

Calculation View Scenario Layout
Scenario Layout-ing capabilities
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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


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Calculation 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)


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Changing 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


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Column 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


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SAP HANA SPS 07 - Improved modeling experience

Creating 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)


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


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Dimension 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 are
o Setting Root Node values with mapped Input Parameters (Parent-Child Hierarchies)
o Using parameter in calculated columns,
used to build hierarchies.


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Star 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 input
Important Note: Star Join currently cannot regarded a replacement for Analytic View
capability, especially as it has not been optimized for aggregation performance yet.

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SAP HANA SPS 07 – Calculation View enhancements

Calculation 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

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


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Scripted Calculation Views
Target Column Creation

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


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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


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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


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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)


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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


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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


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SAP HANA SPS 07 – SAP HANA Studio Enhancements

Renaming and Grouping of SAP HANA Studio Objects

SAP HANA Studio
Eclipse Preferences

SAP HANA Studio
Eclipse Perspectives

SAP HANA Studio
Eclipse Views


SAP HANA Studio
Eclipse New-Dialog

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SAP HANA SPS 07 – Other Enhancements and New Capabilities

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


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Analytic 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


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Autodocumentation Enhancements
Autodocumentation Enhancements
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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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Thank you
Contact information
Christoph Morgen
SAP HANA Product Management
AskSAPHANA@sap.com
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