Getting started with the SAP Lumira SDK

SAP Lumira can become a very powerful tool with custom visualizations or custom data sources. It allows you to develop custom visualizations with the SAP VizPacker visualization utility as well as create data access extension to access out-of-the box data sources. The development of this new extension is not so easy and requires knowledge of some of the following technologies:

• JavaScript

  Tip

  A good tutorial on JavaScript is available at: http://www.w3schools.com/js/default.asp.

• HTML5

  Tip

  A good tutorial on HTML5 is available at http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp.

• jQuery

• CSS

  Tip

  A good tutorial on CSS is available at http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp.

• D3 (Data-Driven Documents)

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  Lots of custom visualization is based on the open source data visualization library. There are some useful books on D3.js at https://www.packtpub.com/web-development/data-visualization-d3js-cookbook and https://www.packtpub.com/web-development/data-visualization-d3js.

• The...