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Monday, 30 November 2015

How to Extend HANA Live Views

In this blog I will describe how we
can extend HANA Live Views

I hope many of you are familiar

with HANA Live.
If you are not familiar with HANA
Live, then you can refer the below
blog:
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extend HANA Live Views.

Now SAP has created a new tool called SAP HANA Live Extension
Assistant.
Using this tool we can easily extend Reuse Views and Query Views.

Lets start with the Installation of Extension Tool:

First download HANA Content Tools from Service Marketplace and then
import Delivery Unit HCOHBATEXTN.tgz

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Once this Delivery Unit is installed, we can see the extn folder as shown in Labels
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It also generates a role sap.hba.tools.extn.roles::ExtensibilityDeveloper Search

and we will need to assign this role to the User to work with this tool.
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Now to complete the installation, Go to Help -> Install New Software and
click on Add button and enter the details as shown below:
The path would be
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It will create a new View with the same name as the Reuse View
Here we will select the package where we want Extended View to be
created.
All the fields that are present in the Reuse View are marked as Grey and
we cannot change them
On the left side, we get list of all the tables that are used in the View.
These tables only show those fields that are not used in the View
So we can select any field from the table and add it, lets say we want to
select SAKAN field from the table, so we will click on SAKAN field and then
Click on the + button on right side of the screen, this will add it to our view

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Then we will select Next... by default the Join type is Left Outer Join and
we cannot change it but we can change the Cardinality of the View

On the right side, it shows fields for Join. As the table SKA1 is already
used in this View, so it proposes fields for Join, we can either use these
fields or add our own fields by selecting + button as shown below

Then we will Validate and Activate the View

The Extended View copies the semantic properties of the Reuse View - if
Semantic Node in Reuse View is Projection then in Extended View also the
Semantic Node will be Projection

Below is the newly created view.

We can also observe one more thing that after installing Extension tool, the
Join Node and other Nodes are shown in a more elegant and colorful way

Now lets extend GLAccountInChartOfAccountsQuery Query View

R-Click on the View and select Extend View, then we will see the below
screen

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By default it takes the package in which we extended Reuse View earlier

It shows us those columns which are present in Query View but are not
selected in Output

We can also select our extended Reuse View and then its additional fields
are also available to be added to the output as shown below

Lets select both the fields and Validate and Activate the View

Both the Views are available inside ExtTest Package as shown below

Now Lets check out the Extended Query View and now we can see that
both our selected fields are present in the View

The tool has both its benefits and limitations:

Benefits:

It is a simple tool.
It is easier to extend an existing Query or Reuse View if we just want to
add additional Columns from the underlying Tables the View is already
using

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If we update HANA Live Views later on then out Extended View also get
updated

Limitations:

It has many limitations at present

We cannot extend Query Views with Unions and we can also not directly
extend Query Views in which Aggregation Node is present at levels other
than Top Node(Node before Semantic Node).
At present we can not add fields from other Tables(Tables that are not used
in a View) to an existing Reuse View, but hopefully this option will be
available in next version
We cannot create Calculated Columns or change Filter options

Source: scn.sap.com

Posted by Sabrina Pinto at 16:43:00

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