Lumira - Learn How-To Develop an Extension

Learn how to develop custom extension for Lumira - visualizations and data access connectors!

Learn how to develop by extensions type - Visualizations or Data Connectors

We have plenty of content that gets you going with developing your own extensions. Below you find the best resources, grouped extension type. Whenever you are stuck, make sure you check the official SAP Lumira Developer Guide.

And don't miss our Developer webinars - a great chance to connect with our experts!

Develop Visualization Extensions

PREREQUISITES

What you need to know before you begin

ABOUT THE VIZ PACKER PLUGIN FOR SAP WEB IDE

SAP recommends this environment for building new viz extensions. Web IDE has all the capabilities of the SDK, but supports developing in additional browsers, is easier to debug, beautifies your code, has code completion - and more good stuff! All future innovations will be in WebIDE exclusively. Here's some resources for more information:

DEVELOPING VIZ EXTENSIONS WITH THE SAP WEB IDE

There are some great resources to learn how to develop visualization extensions using SAP Web IDE:

• SAP Documentation: SAP Lumira / SAP Web IDE
• SAP Documentation: VizPacker Plugin
• Webinar: Adapting a D3 chart for Lumira with Web IDE
• Tutorial: Create the Hello World Extension
• Modifying an existing open sourced viz extension
• Using external resourced when building viz extensions
• Best Practices for Visualization Extensions

Two examples of Lumira Viz Extensions, migrated to Web IDE:

    Football Heatmap

    By Former Member | Migrated by @Annie Niangneihoi

MIGRATING YOUR SDK-BASED VIZ EXTENSION TO AN SAP WEB IDE-BASED EXTENSION

Learn how to migrate an existing SDK-based viz extension to one based on SAP Web IDE and compatible with the latest release of SAP Lumira!

NEW TO SAP WEB-IDE?

SAP Web IDE is the environment for building HTML5 apps, based on SAP's Hana Cloud Platform (HCP) and it comes with free developer accounts.

USING LUMIRA SDK

Really, we do recommend that you use Web IDE, not the SDK

You might want to maintain your SDK based extensions though, for which we of course still ship the SDK as part of the Lumira Desktop download. Here's some of the key enablement assets for the Lumira SDK:

    Official Documentation for SAP Lumira

    How to Develop a Custom Visualization Extension for SAP Lumira

ADDITIONAL INSPIRATION FOR GREAT LOOKING VISUALIZATIONS

Develop Data Access Extensions

USING SAP LUMIRA DATA ACCESS EXTENSION SDK

An Introduction to Creating Data Access Extensions for SAP Lumira

By Former Member

In this SAP Lumira Expert Series webinar replay, Former Member, will give you an introduction to developing data access extensions that bring data from third-party data sources directly into SAP Lumira. Starting with an overview of the new features of V2 Data Access Extension SDK, Vamsi’s presentation then shifts to a demonstration of how to build a Web API connector to import historical stock quotes data from Quandl.com into SAP Lumira directly. The session concludes by completing your extension by generating a custom logo.