Modeling Guide

Navigating the SAP Data Hub Modeling Tool

In the modeling tool for SAP Data Hub, you can choose from different types of panes and toolbars to perform your modeling operations.

The user interface layout of SAP Data Hub Modeling tool has the following panes and toolbars:
  • Editor toolbar: Use the editor pane to create and define the SAP Data Hub objects such as destinations, data sets, tasks, and task workflows.
  • Navigation pane: Use the navigation pane to browse and open projects and SAP Data Hub design-time objects.
  • Problems view: Use the problems view to know the status of various operations performed on the SAP Data Hub design-time objects. For example, activating an object. You can also navigate to the respective object from the problems view.
  • Console view: Use the console view, for example, to refer to logs that the system creates for any runtime errors. Unlike in the problems view, the information in console view is not restricted to just the SAP Data Hub design-time objects.
  • Workspace toolbar: Use this toolbar to perform operations such as creating a project, exporting, and importing a project, cloning projects from Git, searching projects and design-time objects, refreshing the navigation pane, and more.
  • Context-sensitive help: Use the context-sensitive help documentation when working with the SAP Data Hub Modeling tool. For example, if you are creating a data set, then with context-sensitive help, you can directly open the help information from the tool for creating data sets. The tool displays the help information in a new browser window. When you switch the context, the help content in the new window automatically updates based on the new context.
  • Global toolbar: Use this toolbar to perform operations such as saving changes to a design-time object, activating the project, and more.
  • Left sidebar: Use the left sidebar to switch between SAP Data Hub Modeling view and Preferences view. Use the Data Hub Modeling view to perform modeling operations such as creating a project, creating a destination, creating a data set, and more. Use the Preferences view to define user preferences for code check, code completion, code editor appearance, and more.