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2600941 - How to add more chart types to Lumira Discovery - Visualization Extensions

Symptom

  • Want to use a chart style that is not included in Lumira Discovery by default
  • Don't see a desired type of visualization when adding a chart

Environment

  • SAP Lumira Discovery 2.0
  • SAP Lumira Discovery 2.1

Resolution

  1. Copy your visualization extension (for example, sap.viz.ext.helloworld.zip) to the machine with Discovery
  2. Start Discovery
  3. Go to File, then choose Extensions
  4. Extension Manager will pop up. In the top right of Extension Manager, select Install
  5. Navigate to the folder containing the extension, then select it and choose Open
  6. Close the Extension Manager then close Discovery. 
  7. Open Discovery again, and the extension will now be usable under the "Extensions" chart type

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See Also

  • Installing the visualization extension to SAP BusinessObjects Lumira Discovery - Blog Post
  • There are approximately 50+ viz extensions open sourced and available for download from GitHub

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Product

SAP Lumira, desktop edition 1.0