Visualize Data from the Northwind Service

Add a new view to your SAPUI5 application by using an easy-ui5 sub-generator.

Open a new terminal session on root level of your project and execute:

yo easy-ui5 project newview

The routes are added to the uimodule/webapp/manifest.json file. The generator asks you whether you want to overwrite the manifest.json file, which is necessary in this case, so type yes when prompted.

As you can see in the log, the generator created a new view with its corresponding controller. It also modified the uimodule/webapp/manifest.json by adding a new route as well as a new target. You can see the pattern for the new Sales route is RouteSales. This is the piece that we will later attach to the URL of our application to reach this view.

The webapp/view/Sales.view.xml will hold the VizFrame that visualizes the data from the Northwind Service. Remove the entire content view and replace it with the below code.

 <mvc:View
  controllerName="tutorial.products.controller.Sales"
  displayBlock="true"
  xmlns="sap.m"
  xmlns:mvc="sap.ui.core.mvc"

  xmlns:layout="sap.ui.layout"
  xmlns:viz="sap.viz.ui5.controls"
  xmlns:viz.data="sap.viz.ui5.data"
  xmlns:viz.feeds="sap.viz.ui5.controls.common.feeds">

  <Page title="{i18n>title}" id="Sales" >
    <content>
      <layout:FixFlex id="chartFixFlex" minFlexSize="250">
        <layout:flexContent>
            <viz:Popover id="idPopOver" connect="idVizFrame"></viz:Popover>
            <viz:VizFrame
              id="idVizFrame"
              uiConfig="{applicationSet:'fiori'}"
              height="100%"
              width="100%"
              vizType="timeseries_line"
              vizProperties="{
                                title: {
                                    text: 'Sales by Years'
                                },
                                plotArea: {
                                  dataLabel: {
                                      visible: false
                                  },
                                  window: {
                                      start: 'firstDataPoint',
                                      end: 'lastDataPoint'
                                  }
                                }                                 
                              }" >
                <viz:dataset>
                    <viz.data:FlattenedDataset data="{/Summary_of_Sales_by_Years}">
                        <viz.data:dimensions>
                            <viz.data:DimensionDefinition
                              name="ShippedDate"
                              value="{ShippedDate}"
                              dataType="date"/>
                        </viz.data:dimensions>
                        <viz.data:measures>
                            <viz.data:MeasureDefinition
                              name="Subtotal"
                              value="{Subtotal}"/>
                        </viz.data:measures>
                    </viz.data:FlattenedDataset>
                </viz:dataset>
                <viz:feeds>
                    <viz.feeds:FeedItem
                      id="valueAxisFeed"
                      uid="valueAxis"
                      type="Measure"
                      values="Subtotal" />
                    <viz.feeds:FeedItem
                      id="timeAxisFeed"
                      uid="timeAxis"
                      type="Dimension"
                      values="ShippedDate" />
                </viz:feeds>
            </viz:VizFrame>
        </layout:flexContent>
      </layout:FixFlex>
    </content>
  </Page>
</mvc:View>

This new code uses additional SAPUI5 libraries that are referenced at the top of the file. These are necessary in order to use the layout and VizFrame related controls. If you look at the code closely, you will notice that it defines a new VizFrame of type timeseries_line. The dataset (FlattenedDataSet) is bound to the /Summary_of_Sales_by_Years entity of the Northwind OData Service. The dimension (DimensionDefinition) is ShippedDate, which represents time and is therefore of type date. The measure (MeasureDefinition) is the Subtotal of sales.

You can read more about VizFrames in the SAPUI5 API Reference and check out some samples in the SAPUI5 Samples. VizFrames even have their own documentation that lists all available properties, events, bindings, and scales.

In order to see the new view in your application in the browser, you have to navigate there manually using the pattern you already inspected in step 2. If your application is running in a Fiori Launchpad, attach &/RouteSales to the URL. If your application runs standalone, attach #/RouteSales to the URL. There is a difference between these two scenarios, because your application in the Fiori Launchpad already requires a hash (#) to navigate to it and there is only one hash allowed in a URL.

You might have noticed that you can hover over the single data points of the line chart and click them, but nothing happens yet. Insert the below onAfterRendering method into the Sales.controller.js to connect the VizFrame with the popover, which is already defined in the uimodule/webapp/view/Sales.view.xml (step 3).

sap.ui.define([
    "tutorial/products/controller/BaseController"
], function (Controller) {
    "use strict";

    return Controller.extend("tutorial.products.controller.Sales", {
        onAfterRendering: function () {
            const oVizFrame = this.oVizFrame = this.getView().byId("idVizFrame");
            const oPopOver = this.getView().byId("idPopOver");
            oPopOver.connect(oVizFrame.getVizUid());
        }
    });
});

After saving the file, your browser should automatically refresh the page. You can now click on any data point to get the popover with its exact data.