The first part of my blog explained the installation of SAP Zen. Next, I planned to do something simple, just to get started and get familiar with Zen, the premium successor to BEx Web Application Designer (aka Analysis Edition for Application Design)
I followed David Stocker's tutorial on Zen and got this error with my first BEx Query:
So I moved on to another query and it worked fine.
I selected another query and for the most part followed the tutorial, with some exceptions I note below.
My first thought is how much I liked the WYSIWYG of SAP Zen – with BEx Web Application Designer (WAD), here is what the Designer saw when creating a WAD application:
Whereas designing with Zen, you do see the data as you design the application (WYSIWYG):
I was having trouble deploying to the iPad. Because I have an iPad 1 which does not have a camera for the QR scanner I thought this wasn’t possible.
Then I went to Tools -> Preferences on the menu and made this setting:
You need to have the “Allow external access to embedded Web server” clicked on so the iPad can access your web server.
Then you can deploy to your iPad.
I simply used the URL generated from the QR code and typed that in my iPad, and it worked. Here is how it looks:
In my next blog, I will continue with some more observations of what you should do and consider with SAP Zen.
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