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Software Development on the SAP HANA Platform

By : Mark Walker
Book Image

Software Development on the SAP HANA Platform

By: Mark Walker

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Software Development on the SAP HANA Platform
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Understanding the BODS main screen


When we run the Data Services Designer tool for the first time, we will be presented with the main screen, as shown in the following screenshot:

The screen layout is as follows:

  • At the top of the screen, the menu and button bar with buttons representing the main options are available according to the selected object in the tool.

  • On the left of the screen is the Project panel. This panel lists the contents of the current project (think of it as the equivalent of the Navigator panel in the SAP HANA Studio).

  • Underneath the Project panel we can see Local Object Library, which has at the bottom a series of tabs, listing the different object types available. These are as follows:

    • Projects: This lists the projects that exist in the BODS Repository, and allows you to create new projects.

    • Jobs: This lists jobs on the server. A BODS job defines which actions (data flows and/or work flows) need to be performed, and in which order.

    • Work Flows and Data Flows: A data flow...