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Document History

Caution

Before you start the implementation, make sure you have the latest version of this document. You can find the

latest version at the following location:: service.sap.com/erp-inst SAP Business Suite Applications SAP Real

Estate Cockpit .

The following table provides an overview of the most important document changes.Die folgende Tabelle enthält

eine Übersicht der wichtigsten Änderungen des Dokuments.

Table 1Version Date Description

1.0 2014-01-20 This is the initial version of the SAP Real Estate Cockpit Administrator's Guide 1.0 SPS 00.

1.1 2015-01-26 The 'Download and Installation of Product Versions' chapter has been updated as follows:

SAP Enterprise Dashboard is mentioned as a prerequisite.

1.2 2015-03-13 The 'URLs for Accessing the SAP Real Estate Cockpit and Configurator' chapter has been

added to the 'Installation of SAP Real Estate Cockpit' section.

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Content

1 Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

1.1 SAP Real Estate Cockpit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

1.2 About this Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

2 Setup of SAP Real Estate Cockpit System Landscape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

2.1 Technical System Landscape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

2.2 Browser Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

2.3 SAP HANA Live Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

2.4 Pre-Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

3 Installation of SAP Real Estate Cockpit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

3.1 Installation Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

3.2 Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

3.3 Download and Installation of Product Versions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

3.4 Post-Installation Steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

3.5 Communication Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

3.6 UI Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

3.7 Users and Roles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

3.8 Users and Roles in SAP Real Estate Cockpit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

3.9 URLs for Accessing the SAP Real Estate Cockpit and Configurator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

3.10 Users and Roles in SAP HANA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

4 Configuration of SAP Real Estate Cockpit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

4.1 Configuring Remote Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

4.2 Configuring Data Sets Based on SAP HANA Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

4.3 Configuring Data Sets Based on OData Collections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

4.4 Configuring Semantics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

4.5 Configuring Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

4.6 Configuring Hierarchies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

4.7 Configuring Map Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

5 Operations Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21


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1 Getting Started

1.1 SAP Real Estate Cockpit

SAP Real Estate Cockpit enables corporate customers with large real estate portfolios to efficiently manage their

portfolios and to allow all responsible entities to realize building-related cost-saving potential, resulting in better

strategic and operative decisions.

1.2 About this Document

This document is the single source of information for the implementation and configuration of the SAP Real Estate

Cockpit.

It contains implementation information as well as security, operation, and configuration information, and is

divided into the following sections:

● System Landscape

● Installation

● Configuration

● Operations

● Security

Related Information

For more information about implementation topics not covered in this guide, see the following content on SAP

Service Marketplace or SAP Help portal:

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Content Location

Information about SAP Real Estate Cockpit service.sap.com/erp-inst SAP Real Estate Cockpit

Information about SAP HANA hana.sap.com and service.sap.com/hana

Information about SAP Hana Live help.sap.com/hba

Technical Operations Manual for SAP HANA help.sap.com/hana_appliance

Information about SAP Smart Business help.sap.com/ssb

Further Useful Links

The following table lists further useful links:

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Content Location


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Information about creating incidents (formerly known as

error messages)

support.sap.com/kb-incidents.html

SAP Notes search service.sap.com/notes

SAP Software Distribution Center (software download and

ordering of software)

support.sap.com/swdc

Note

You can find the most current version of this document on SAP Service Marketplace at service.sap.com/erp-

inst SAP Real Estate Cockpit .

We strongly recommend that you use the document available there. The guide will be updated according to

updates of the software.

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2 Setup of SAP Real Estate Cockpit SystemLandscape

2.1 Technical System Landscape

The figure below provides an overview of the minimal system landscape for the SAP Real Estate Cockpit:

Figure 1

2.2 Browser Requirements

To run SAP Real Estate Cockpit, a browser supporting HTML5 is required.

You can use one of the following browsers:

● Google Chrome (recommended)

Stable release: 39.0.2171.71 (released on November 25, 2014)

● Mozilla Firefox

Stable release: 33.1.1 (released on November 14, 2014)

● Safari

Stable release: 8.0 for OS X v10.10 Yosemite (released on October 16, 2014)


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2.3 SAP HANA Live Components

SAP Real Estate Cockpit is powered by SAP HANA and uses the following SAP HANA components:● SAP HANA

SAP HANA is an in-memory database platform that you can use to analyze large volumes of data in real-time.

● SAP HANA Extended Application Services (SAP HANA XS)

SAP HANA Extended Application Services (SAP HANA XS) is a lightweight application server in SAP HANA.

● Virtual Data Model (VDM)

A Virtual Data Model (VDM) is a data provider and a generic interface to the SAP HANA database. This

interface consists of query views that are used to analyse key performance indicators (KPIs). The VDM is a

structured representation of SAP HANA database views used in the SAP HANA analytics framework for SAP

Business Suite, and is deployed with SAP HANA Live for SAP Business Suite.

You can use the VDMs provided by SAP or use them as templates. You can use, for example, the VDMs forSAP for Flexible Real Estate Management or for SAP ERP. For more information, see help.sap.com/hba

Application Help .

2.4 Pre-Installation

Certificates for Single Sign-On

For single sign-on (SSO) using logon tickets, you require an SSL server certificate for each of the components

between which you want to use SSO

SAP HANA XS Engine

For more information, see the SAP HANA Security Guide at help.sap.com/hana_platform Security

Information SAP HANA Authentication and Single Sign-On .

Roles and Authorizations

You have to decide how to set up the roles and authorizations for the SAP Real Estate Cockpit users.

Operating System Access for SAP HANA Database server

To configure HTTPS and SSO in the SAP HANA database, the administrator requires privileges to access SAPHANA on the operating system level.

For more information, see the SAP HANA Administrator's Guide at SAP Help Portal at help.sap.com/

hana_platform System Administration and Maintenance Operating System User adm

Data Replication

Required if you use SAP HANA in a side-by-side scenario alongside any database that contains the SAP Business

Suite data.

Ensure that data replication between the database that contains the SAP Business Suite data and SAP HANA is

configured.

For more information, see the SAP HANA Live Administrator's Guide at help.sap.com/hba Installation, Security,

Configuration, and Operations Replicate Data and Creating and Configuring Remote Systems [page 15].

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3 Installation of SAP Real Estate Cockpit

This section describes the installation steps for SAP Real Estate Cockpit.

3.1 Installation Options

Internet-facing deployment requires additional security measures like network filter and reverse proxy. In

addition, the use of external oData services requires the SAP HANA server to be able to reach external HTTP(S)

destinations.

More Information

For more information, see the following sections of the SAP HANA Security Guide on SAP Help Portal at

help.sap.com/hana_platform Security Information SAP HANA Security Guide :

● SAP HANA Network and Communication Security

● Security for Other SAP HANA Platform Components SAP HANA Extended Application Services (SAP

HANA XS)

● SAP HANA Security Reference Information Security Configuration Checklist

3.2 Prerequisites

The following components are required for SAP Real Estate Cockpit:

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Software Component Minimum Release Required Required or Optional More Information

SAP HANA SAP HANA Server: SAPHANA 1.0 SPS 09 revision

number 90

Required See the documentation forSAP HANA Platform at

help.sap.com/hana_platform

Installation and Upgrade

Information SAP HANA

Server Installation and

Update Guide

SAP HANA Live SAP HANA Server: SAP

HANA Live for SAP Business

Suite SPS 09 revision

number 90

Required for data access

through VDM, for example,

RE-FX data

See the documentation for

SAP HANA Live on Business

Suite at help.sap.com/hba

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Information Administrator’s

Guide

3.3 Download and Installation of Product Versions

We recommend using Maintenance Optimizer in SAP Solution Manager to install and update product versions.

SAP Solution Manager calculates the required software components that have to be deployed on each server.

This allows you to deploy several product versions at once.

Alternatively, you can download the required files directly from SAP Service Marketplace and deploy them

manually. This allows you to deploy only single product versions.

For more information about Maintenance Optimizer, see SAP Help Portal at help.sap.com/solutionmanager71 Application Help SAP Library SAP Solution Manager Maintenance Management

Maintenance Optimizer .

Before you install SAP Real Estate Cockpit, you must install SAP Enterprise Dashboard first (software component

ENTERPRISE DASHBOARD CORE 100).

For SAP Real Estate Cockpit, the following installation information is relevant:

● Software component SAP REAL ESTATE COCKPIT 100

● Software delivery units HCO_EAD_CORE and HCO_EAD_REC

Procedure

Note

For product versions on the SAP HANA server: Your SAP HANA database has to be registered in the System

Landscape Directory (SLD).

For more information about how to register in SLD, see SAP Help Portal at help.sap.com/hana_platform

Installation and Upgrade Information SAP HANA Update Guides .

SAP Solution Manager

You can install and update product versions with SAP Solution Manager as follows:

1. In SAP Solution Manager, run transaction lmdb. On the Product Systems tab, select your product system and

choose Display.

2. In the navigation tree, click on the top node (Product System).

3. On the Maintenance Transactions tab, under Maintenance Optimizer Transactions, choose Create

Transaction.

4. Under Choose File Selection Mode, choose Calculate Files Automatically and then choose Continue.

5. On the Operations tab, under Update Options, select the Maintenance change option and choose Continue.

6. For product versions on the SAP HANA server: If you are not yet running the latest support package stack for

SAP HANA, set it as your target stack under Select Target and choose Continue. This will update your SAP

HANA database to the latest support package stack.

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For product versions on the ABAP server: If you are not yet running the relevant support package stack for

SAP NetWeaver, set it as your target stack under Select Target and choose Continue. This will update your

ABAP server to the chosen support package stack.

7. Confirm the Major Target by choosing Continue.

8. Select all product versions that you want to install.

9. Confirm and add them to the download basket. If not all dependencies as given in the respective tables are

automatically resolved, you must select them manually.

10. Confirm the download basket by choosing Continue.

11. On the Stack Files tab, download the system-specific stack XML file:

○ In the SAP HANA system, for SAP Application Lifecycle Manager (ALM)

○ In the ABAP system, for the Software Update Manager (SUM)

12. Save and close the Maintenance Optimizer windows.

13. Download the calculated files using SAP Download Manager from SAP Service Marketplace. Make the

downloaded files and XML files available on your systems, which need to be updated.

14. Depending on the product versions that you want to install or update, do the following:

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Step For Product Versions on the SAP

HANA Server

For Product Versions on the ABAP

Server

1 As a SYSTEM user in the SAP HANA

studio, right-click on the server node

in the navigation pane, and select

Lifecycle Management.

Start the SUM on the ABAP server.

2 Under Update SAP HANA System,select Apply Support Package Stack.

Connect from your local PC viabrowser.

A java web start application starts.

3 Choose Manually downloaded content,

then browse to find the content that

you downloaded in step 7 and run the

installation and update procedure.

Configure the SUM, especially point to

the downloaded xml file and execute

the installation and update procedure

on your system.

SAP Service Marketplace

Note

For product versions on the SAP HANA server: You must have updated your SAP HANA platform to the latest

support package stack.

You can download the product versions from the SAP Service Marketplace as follows:

1. Open the software download center at support.sap.com/swdc.

2. Choose Search for Software Downloads Click here .

3. Enter the technical name of the software component.

4. Download the component.

5. Repeat steps 2 to 4 for each required component.

After downloading the components, you can start the installation and update manually. Ensure that the

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3.4 Post-Installation Steps

Some steps are required in SAP HANA Studio after importing the software delivery units.

Prerequisites

You have imported the software delivery units HCO_EAD_CORE and HCO_EAD_REC.

Procedure

1. Assign the rolesap.ead.rec.roles::Deployer to the user who is responsible for the deployment

procedure. This role is only used for deployment purposes.

2. With this role, open an SQL console in SAP HANA Studio and execute the following command:

Call "SAP_EAD"."sap.ead.rec.db.procedures::DEPLOY"

3. Once you have completed this step, ensure that all SAP Real Estate Cockpit users are assigned one of the

following roles:

○ sap.ead.rec.roles::SystemAdmin

○ sap.ead.rec.roles::Admin

○ sap.ead.rec.roles::Modeller

○ sap.ead.rec.roles::Composer

○ sap.ead.rec.roles::Consumer

3.5 Communication Channels

You establish communication between the SAP HANA database and the SAP Real Estate Cockpit UI using the

HTTPS protocol.

For information about setting up communication encryption for SAP HANA, see the SAP Help Portal at

help.sap.com/hana_platform Security Information SAP HANA Security Guide SAP HANA Network and

Communication Security Securing Data Communication .

3.6 UI Integration

You can navigate to external systems from the SAP Real Estate Cockpit, for example, SAP Lumira, SAP Screen

Personas, and SAP business applications.

Prerequisites

You have defined the relevant URLs in the SAP Real Estate Cockpit Configurator.

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More Information

● For more information about setting up SAP Lumira, see help.sap.com/lumira Installation and Upgrade

Information SAP Lumira Server Installation Guide .● For more information about SAP screen personas, see help.sap.com/personas.

3.7 Users and Roles

SAP Business Suite User Synchronization

If you use SAP Real Estate Cockpit in combination with SAP Business Suite data (VDMs), you must ensure that

the users are synchronized, as the generation of analytic privileges is based on SAP ERP authorizations.

If you use SAP Fiori, SAP HANA, and SAP Smart Business in parallel, harmonized users apply.For more information, see the SAP Smart Business Administrator's Guide on SAP Help Portal at

help.sap.com/ssb App Implementation for Analytical Apps Configuring Access for SAP HANA Data .

User Management

For more information about user management in SAP HANA, see the SAP HANA Administration Guide System

Administration and Maintenance Information Security Administration Managing SAP HANA Users .

Creating Analytic Privileges

For more information about user synchronization, see the SAP Smart Business Administrator's Guide on SAP

Help Portal at help.sap.com/ssb App Implementation for Analytical Apps Configuring Access to SAP HANA

Data Creating Analytic Privileges .

3.8 Users and Roles in SAP Real Estate Cockpit

Application Privileges

To access the different applications, the following application privileges are required:

● sap.ead.rec.roles:Admin or sap.ead.rec.roles:Modeller, to access both the Cockpit and the

Configurator

● sap.ead.rec.roles::Composer or sap.ead.rec.roles::Consumer, to access the Cockpit

Roles

The following roles are available in SAP Real Estate Cockpit:

● sap.ead.rec.roles::Systemadmin

With this role, you can access both the Cockpit and the Configurator. It allows you to add systems to use with

the OData connector.

● sap.ead.rec.roles::Admin

With this role, you can access both the Cockpit and the Configurator. It allows you to perform system

administrator tasks and modelling. You can, for example edit semantics and dashboards. It doesn’t allow

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● sap.ead.rec.roles::Modeller

With this role, you can access both the Cockpit and the Configurator. It allows you to create and edit data

sets and semantics, including parameters, key figures, components, and anything you need to configure

tiles, including all composer rights.

● sap.ead.rec.roles::Composer

This role allows you to create, edit, and delete dashboards.

● sap.ead.rec.roles::Consumer

This role allows you to view all dashboards you’re allowed to view. You can be granted authorizations by a

Composer, a Modeler, or an Administrator.

3.9 URLs for Accessing the SAP Real Estate Cockpit and

Configurator

You can access the SAP Real Estate Cockpit UI and the SAP Real Estate Cockpit Configurator using the following

URLs:

● :/sap/ead/rec/cockpit

● :/sap/ead/rec/conf

3.10 Users and Roles in SAP HANA

For more information about user synchronization, see the SAP HANA Administration Guide on SAP Help Portal at

help.sap.com/hana_platform System Administration and Maintenance Information Managing SAP HANA

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4 Configuration of SAP Real Estate Cockpit

This section describes the configuration steps for SAP Real Estate Cockpit in the SAP Real Estate Cockpit

Configurator.

For more information about the required privileges and roles, see Users and Roles in SAP Real Estate

Cockpit [page 13].

4.1 Configuring Remote Systems

You can create remote systems as data sources in SAP Real Estate Cockpit. Once you have created them, you

must configure them in the Administrator's panel in the SAP HANA system.

Note

Remote systems aren't related to the systems you can link to in the semantic configuration. These systems are

only linked to allow you to view data in, for example, business systems.

Procedure

1. Click Systems.

2. Click Add.

3. On the popup that is displayed, enter the required information.

4. Click Apply.

5. Click Accept.

Result

An *.httpdest file is created under sap.ead.core.public_xsjs.destination.systems.

4.2 Configuring Data Sets Based on SAP HANA Views

You can create data sets based on SAP HANA views to retrieve data.

Procedure

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2. Enter a description.

3. Click HANA View.

4. Select the relevant SAP HANA view.

5. Click Apply.

6. Click Accept.

4.3 Configuring Data Sets Based on OData Collections

You can create data sets as Web services to retrieve data from OData services.

Prerequisites

● You have created an OData service in the system that can be accessed from the SAP Real Estate Cockpit

system.

● You have configured the system in which the OData service is available in the SAP Real Estate Cockpit

system.

● You have configured credentials and proxy settings for the .xhttpdest file on the XS Admin page.

Procedure

1. Click Data Sets.


3. Click OData.

4. Select the system in which the OData service is available.

5. Either select the OData service or define a new one.

6. Select the relevant collection.

7. Click Apply.

8. Click Accept.

4.4 Configuring Semantics

Semantics allow you to represent data from a business point of view.

Prerequisites

You have created the relevant data set. For more information, see Creating Data Sets [page 15].

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Procedure

1. Click Semantic.

2. Click Add.

3. Click Edit to configure the semantic: the Semantic Configuration menu is displayed.

4. Click Apply, then Accept.

Example

To get an overview of the room reservations for a range of buildings of your real estate portfolio, you can create a

semantic with the following components:

●

Key figures:Duration in hours

● Dimensions:

Building name and room size

To get an overview of the gross rent and gross charges for a range of buildings of your real estate portfolio, you

can create a semantic with the following components:

● Key figures:

Gross rent and gross charges

● Dimension:

Building nameIn addition, you can configure links to external systems for information purposes, for example, business

applications.

4.5 Configuring Filters

SAP Real Estate Cockpit components can be filtered on the dashboard in different ways. With filters, you can

influence the parameters, dimensions, and hierarchies of a semantic. Each filter is associated with a filter type

that allows you to filter components from different semantics on one dashboard at the same time.

The display of filter options on a dashboard is determined as follows:

● All dashboard components are retrieved

● All semantic components are retrieved

● All filterable parameters, filterable dimensions, and filterable hierarchies of the semantics are retrieved

● All possible values of the filterable parameters and filterable dimensions are retrieved

● All values by filter type are grouped and displayed as filters on the dashboard

Filter Types

Filterable parameters, filterable dimensions, and filterable hierarchies are always associated with a filter type. For

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Filter Type Category Description Selectable for

Value Used for distinct values. Fordimensions, it is visualized through a

multi-selection list (checkboxes), for

parameters through a single-selection

list (radio buttons).

Parameters and dimensions

Range Used for (continuous) numerical values

and visualized through a slider.


Date Used for dates. SAP Real Estate Cockpit

provides a time frame visualization.


Hierarchy Used for hierarchies, visualized through

a tree.

Parameters and hierarchies

Unit Used for units and currencies,

visualization is currently identical to the

one for values.

Parameters and hierarchies

The main purpose of a filter type is to allow tiles from different semantics to be filtered by the same filter in SAP

Real Estate Cockpit. For example, both semantic A and semantic B might have a building, but specified in different

fields, BID and BuildingID, for example. Normally this would show up as two filters on the UI, but if they share

the same set of IDs, they can be combined by mapping them to the same filter type "Building". The user will only

see this filter type as a filter, but when he sets a value for the filter, in the background, both semantics receive the

value in their respective fields through the mapping between the field and the filter type.

Filterable Parameters

For each parameter of a semantic, you can select whether it is filterable and you can associate it with a filter type.

For parameters, all filter types are available.

If no user-specific filters are set, the default values of the parameters are used to retrieve data from the SAP

HANA view or OData service of the semantic. For parameters that are not filterable or without user-specific filters,

the default values are used.

Filterable Dimensions

For each dimension of a semantic, you can select whether it is filterable and you can associate it with a filter type.For dimensions, all filter types except the hierarchy type are available.

If a user-specific filter is set, the retrieved data is filtered by the filter value or filter values, the selection returns

only data where the specified dimension has these filter values.

Filterable Hierarchies

For each hierarchy of a semantic, you can select whether it is filterable and you can associate it with a filter type.

For hierarchies, only the hierarchy filter type is available.

If a user-specific filter is set, only the data items that are part of the selected part of the hierarchy are retrieved.

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4.6 Configuring Hierarchies

You can use hierarchies to display structured data.If the selected hierarchy element is not used as a parameter but the hierarchy has been defined in the semantic, a

SELECT statement is created. This statement is based on a join between the data view, for example, a VDM query

view, and the hierarchy view. From the hierarchy view the items below the selected element are retrieved,

including the selected one. The data view should return only the leafs, for example, buildings.

If the selected hierarchy element is used as a parameter and the hierarchy has been defined in the semantic, a

SELECT statement is created. This statement is based on a join between the data view and the hierarchy view.

From the hierarchy view, the items below the selected element are retrieved, including the selected one. The data

view should only return the leafs, for example, buildings.

If the selected hierarchy element is used as a parameter but no hierarchy has been defined in the semantic, a

SELECT statement is created. This statement selects the data from the data view. The data view may return data

on every level, including pre-aggregated values.

Note

Please note that only geographical hierarchies are supported. In the SAP Real Estate Cockpit, the hierarchy

filter values are only displayed if the dashboard contains a component from a semantic for which the hierarchy

has been defined.

Procedure

1. Select a semantic.2. Click Add to create a new hierarchy or select an existing one.


4. Select a hierarchy view. Ensure that the hierarchy view is compatible with the SAP HANA view that you use

for the data set on which the semantic is based.

5. Enter a key and a reference to map the hierarchy and the SAP HANA view. The key identifies the objects in

the hierarchy, whereas the reference is the field in the semantic.

6. You can use readable texts to identify the elements of a hierarchy, as hierarchies use technical IDs.

7. You can use hierarchies as filters on the SAP Real Estate Cockpit user interface. To enable this, set the Filter

option to Filterable. In addition, you must specify a filter type.

4.7 Configuring Map Layers

Map layers are used on the geographical map on the SAP Real Estate Cockpit UI to filter the data displayed on the

map. You can use either marker layers or bubble layers.

Prerequisites

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● You have configured the relevant semantic and data set.

Procedure

1. Select a semantic.

2. Click Edit.

3. In the Semantic Configuration menu, choose Map Layers.

4. Click Add.


6. Specify the folder in which you want to save the layer.

7. Select either the Marker or the Bubble layer type. You can change the color and size of markers and bubbles

by clicking them.

8. Select the geo coordinates for the longitude and latitude.

9. Specify what you want to measure and what to you want to have displayed on the map.

10. You can use the default marker or bubble and define additional settings, such as fly-out properties, tooltips,

and links to external systems. Fly- out properties are displayed on the popup when you click the marker.

11. Click Apply, then Accept.

Example

Building capacity marker that displays the available workspace for each building on the map.

Energy consumption bubble that displays the energy consumption for each building on the map.

More Information

Using Maps [external document]

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Table 7

Example Description

Angle brackets indicate that you replace these words or characters with appropriate entries

to make entries in the system, for example, “Enter your ”.

Example Example Arrows separating the parts of a navigation path, for example, menu options

Example Emphasized words or expressions

Example Words or characters that you enter in the system exactly as they appear in the

documentation

www.sap.com Textual cross-references to an internet address

/example Quicklinks added to the internet address of a homepage to enable quick access to specific

content on the Web

123456 Hyperlink to an SAP Note, for example, SAP Note 123456

Example ● Words or characters quoted from the screen. These include field labels, screen titles,

pushbutton labels, menu names, and menu options.

● Cross-references to other documentation or published works

Example ●

Output on the screen following a user action, for example, messages● Source code or syntax quoted directly from a program

● File and directory names and their paths, names of variables and parameters, and

names of installation, upgrade, and database tools

EXAMPLE Technical names of system objects. These include report names, program names,

transaction codes, database table names, and key concepts of a programming language

when they are surrounded by body text, for example, SELECT and INCLUDE

EXAMPLE Keys on the keyboard

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