Refresh specific data within a design studio application?

[Former Member]

Hi Community!

I want to create a button that allows a user to refresh specific data in a chart within the application. The underlying data is stored in an SAP HANA (without BW) and i access it via Business Objects Universe.....i have found the function ReloadData() in Design Studio, but this does not work.

I simply want to refresh data without refreshing the whole application in the browser.

how can this be done?

thanks for any help!

Matthias

[alexandre_dussac · Accepted solution]

Hi Matthias,

This might be due to the fact that universes with SAP HANA as underlying database is not supported.

See application designer guide.

DS_1.reloadData() works fine for me when I used direct connection to HANA.

Best,
Alex-

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Alex, thx a lot!

Matthias

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

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[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Alex,

Stuck with same issue:

We are building a Design Studio application with Universe as a Data Source.

The universe is created on top of SQL Server 2012.

When I use reloadData() function with the universe, I get the following message:

Can you suggest any workarounds how I can achieve this.

best Regards

Robin

[MustafaBensan · Accepted solution]

Hi Robin,

The reloadData method is currently only supported for BW and HANA connections.  The only workaround I can think of at the moment is to create a custom universe data source with a reload method, using the Design Studio 1.4 SDK.  However, I expect this would require a significant development effort so you would need to consider whether such an effort is justified by your use case.

Regards,

Mustafa.

[Former Member]

Just a suggestion ,

Have you tried passing a prompt/variable value to the universe ( just to refresh and bring new data).

If it works you can create a dummy prompt on a dimension and make it work like a refresh .

Thanks!