Linked Analysis, Filters, & Input Controls

Jacob Stark & Sofiya Muzychko, SAP Analytics Cloud Product Management

April 2019

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 Agenda

§ Recent Linked Analysis, Filter, & Input Control Improvements

§ Demo: Building from scratch

§ Demo: A finished story

§ Q&A

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 Recent Enhancements

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Use Page Input Controls to Filter a Subset of Charts

Configure page input control to apply to

a subset of selected widgets, instead of
an entire page
• Ability to create more than 1 page input
control per dimension

• Ability to see which widgets are impacted

by which input control via the control
panel in both View and Edit modes

Example: Location Input Control to apply

to all widgets on the page, except for
Chart 1
Limitation: Smart Discovery not supported

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Drive Visualizations with Dimension Input Control

• Create an Consume a Dimension

Input Control to Drive your
Visualization (i.e. Chart, Table,
Geo Tooltip Chart, etc.)

• The Dimension Input Control will

Remember the Dimensions Drill
Level even when the Dimension is
Switched

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Dimension and Measure Input Controls for Table

Give more control to your story viewers by

delegating dimension and measure selection
for tables
• Create one measure or dimension input
control for both Table and charts

• Each input control drives a single column

or row

• Calculated dimensions are supported

Limitation: Cross Calculation are not supported

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Advanced Page and Story Filters

• Multiple dimension can be

filtered together using the
“AND or “OR” representation

• N-tuples of dimension
members can be included or
excluded in a selection.

• These filters can be applied

to stories and page based.
Widget level being planed in
future

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Measure Based Story and Page Filter

• Story designer can create a filter

based on a measure range

• Calculated and Restricted

measures can be used as a
measure based story or page filter

• Example: Only show information

for all Regions with Sales Revenue
over $200m

Limitation: Calculated and Date dimensions cannot be used as dimension context

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Dynamic Time Filter: Chart/Table Filters & Calc. Input Control

• Chart & Table Filters Expose the

Option to Switch the Time Filter by
Range from Fixed to Dynamic

• Create a Dynamic Time Calculation

Input Control to Control the Result
of a Calculation

Existing Dynamic Time Limitations:

• Functionality is Disabled if Fiscal
Year is Enabled
• Time is Based on System Time

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Dynamic Time Story & Page Filters Using System Time

• Create a Page/Story Filter using a

Dynamic Time Filter based on
System Time

• Quick Option to create a Dynamic

Filter on Current Year, Current
Month, etc.

• Option to modify the Last X

periods and Next X periods

• Improved Show/Hide Options

Limitation:
• Unavailable if Fiscal Year is
Enabled
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Apply your topic filters to all sub-topics in Digital Boardroom
Parent Topic Child Topic

Digital Boardroom is made more

efficient for designing and consumption
by applying topic filters to all sub-topics
allowing to stay in the filter context as
you navigate through the boardroom

Boardroom consumers can modify

filter selections at any level, and it
automatically propagates across all
topics

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Link prompts from multiple models to increase efficiency

• Being prompted only once for all

models
• Selecting values only once for all
models
• Supported on:
– HANA to HANA
– HANA to acquired (SAC)
– BW to BW*

Always see the right data by

prompting for variables on story
opening

* Linked Prompts Limitation: BW can only intersect; BW hierarchy name and node variables are not supported
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Sharing Private and Global Bookmarks
Enjoy the convenience of having the ability to
share your private bookmarks to other users Private
who also have access to the story! Bookmarks

As a user who have edit rights to the story

you can also create a global bookmark that
will be available to all users who can access
the story. You can select a default global
bookmark as you share a story to individuals
or teams.

For easier access to the story with the Global

bookmark applied, a direct link is available in Bookmarks

the sharing dialog.

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This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time
Bedtime Reading
Linked Analysis
Improved linked analysis for tables
Improved highlighting of linked analysis for table
Bookmarks
Private bookmarks of filters, input controls and prompts
Sharing private and global bookmarks
Bookmark personal explorer views
Prompts
Merge of variable prompts from multiple models
Exposing model prompts in the story filter bar
Geo Maps
Point of interest & distance/intersection filter improvements
Dimension filter support for geo visualizations
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Story and Page Filters
Story and page dynamic time filters based on Custom
Current Dates
Measure based story and page filter
Advanced page and story filters
Charts and Tables Input Controls
Dimension and measure input controls for tables
Drive visualizations with dimension input control
Numeric slider for calculation input control
Filter creation from selection on table cells
Dynamic time filter: Chart/table filters and calculation input
control
Designing Stories with Filters and Input Controls
Control side panel
Text wrap for tables and input controls
Dynamic text for chart and table filters
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 Hands-on Demo

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 Q&A

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 Thank you

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