Create a Live Data Connection in SAP Analytics Cloud
- Understand the setup of SAP HANA Cloud Live Data Connection in SAP Analytics Cloud
Venkata Reddy P SOctober 10, 2021Prerequisites
- You have Set Up a BTP Account for Tutorials. Follow the instructions to get an account, and then to set up entitlements and service instances for the following BTP services.
- SAP Business Application Studio
- SAP Analytics Cloud trial
In this tutorial, you will learn about the creation of a Live Data Connection. The Live data Connection in SAP Analytics Cloud enables you to consume the calculation view created on top of SAP HANA Cloud as a data source to create visualizations.
- Step 1
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Navigate to SAP BTP trial and select the dev space and then choose the instances. Here you will get to see the application instances.
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Select the application that you have deployed in BAS.
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Click on the keys, to see the credentials to be used for establishing live connection in SAP Analytics Cloud.
Using the schema details one can create a generic credentials set (like reporting user) which can later be used in SAP Analytics Cloud.
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Go to SAP Analytics Cloud trial, click on connections then click on the + icon to create a live data connection setting.
Select connect to Live data then choose SAP HANA.
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Provide a name to HANA Live connection. Select the connection type as SAP HANA Cloud.
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Provide the hostname, language key, username, password details (The details are obtained from HANA application under deployed instances section of BTP trial) and click OK.
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This creates the HANA Live data connection setting.
Next step is to create a Live data model based on the calculation view you have created.
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