Create Calculation View in SAP HANA Cloud

1. Login to your BTP trial subaccount, navigate to subscriptions and select SAP Business Application Studio.

   

   This will open the dev spaces.

2. Click Create Dev Space.

   

3. Select SAP HANA Native Application for the Dev Space type and specify a name.

   We have provided the name as HANADevSpace.

   

4. Click Create Dev Space.

   In a minute, the Dev Space will get created. You need to start the Dev Space, which will by default be in stopped state.

   

   After starting, the state of the Dev Space changes to Running.

   

1. Click on the Dev Space name to launch SAP Business Application Studio.

   

   After launching SAP Business Application Studio, you need to log in to Cloud Foundry.

2. To log in, click View > find command and enter CF. From the available options, select Login to Cloud Foundry.

   

3. Specify your Cloud Foundry endpoint.

   

4. Enter your e-mail address.

   

5. Select the space from the CF Subaccount. This will set the CF Organization and Space for the application we are building

   

6. A confirmation message will be shown at the bottom of the screen.

   

You will start the creation of the project now.

1. Select File > Project from Template, which shows the list of available templates to create applications using BAS.

   

2. For this scenario, select SAP HANA Database project and then click Start.

   

3. Specify a name to the project

   

4. Leave the basic properties as is (for example, module name is db).

   

5. Leave the namespace and schema fields empty. Check ‘Yes’ for the binding the database module to a Cloud Foundry service instance property.

   

6. Leave default values for HDI Container service and then click Finish.

   

   The SAP HANA database project generation will start.

   

   Now you will be able to see the project in the Explorer section of SAP Business Application Studio.

   

1. Click View > find command, type HANA and then select the option Create SAP HANA Database Artifact.

   

2. Select the source folder in the project to create the artifact and choose the artifact type as Table (hdbtable).

   Name the table customers.

   

3. Include the following code for the table definition:

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   COLUMN TABLE "customers"(custid integer, custname varchar(40), custcountry varchar(3), custregion varchar(4));

   

4. Click

   

   button on the top-right corner to deploy the table.

   

5. Similarly, you can create another table called sales by simply right-clicking the source folder and selecting the option new file.

   Enter the name sales.hdbtable.

   

6. Add the following definition to the sales.hdbtable file.

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   COLUMN TABLE "sales" ( sid integer, pid varchar(5), sdate date, samt integer, custid integer )

7. Click

   

   button on the top-right corner to deploy the sales table.

1. Click the SAP HANA projects in explorer, then click the database explorer

   

   icon.

   

   This opens SAP HANA Database Explorer in a new window where you can see the details of the HDI container.

   

2. Select the tables folder in the HDI Container to see the customers and sales tables that you created.

   

3. Click the customers table. This shows the table definition.

   

4. Click open data and then click

   

   to insert a few sample records into the table.

   

5. Follow similar steps to insert a few sample records into the sales table.

   

Now you can go back to the project in SAP Business Application Studio to create a CUBE calculation view.

1. Select the source folder in the project to create the calculation view and choose the artifact type as Calculation View.

   Then, specify for the name customerwisesales, and then click Create.

   

2. Open the file customerwisesales.hdbcalculationview.

   

3. Add a Join node into the canvas.

   

4. Click the following icon:

   

   Search for customers and sales tables and add them to the join node.

   

   After adding both the tables, the join node looks like the following.

   

5. Double-click the join node.

   

6. Drag the CUSTID field of the customers table onto the CUSTID field of the sales table. This will add a join condition between the tables.

   

7. Navigate to the mapping tab of the join node and map the fields from both customers and sales into output columns.

   

8. Link the join node to the aggregation node by using the following button:

   

   It looks like this.

   

9. Double-click the aggregation node. Move all the columns from the join node to the output columns.

   

10. Double-click the semantics node in the calculation view. Select CUSTID and SID fields and mark them as attributes.

    

11. Maintain all the other semantics as needed.

12. Click the

    

    button to deploy the calculation view.

    

13. Navigate to the database explorer. Select the HDI container and choose column view. This shows the calculation view.

    

14. Select the calculation view and click Open Data. This presents the data from the calculation view.

    

15. You can go to the Analysis tab to view the data in the form of graphs, charts and other elements.

    Here the country wise sales is shown in a donut chart.