Week 2: Story Creation

Unit 1: Story Fundamentals

Story fundamentals
Overview

An SAP Analytics Cloud story is a presentation-style document that uses charts, visualizations,
text, images, and pictograms to describe data. It helps you to analyze data and make confident
decisions faster with AI-driven insights.

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Story fundamentals
New story

You can start creating your story by adding a new page. The type of pages available are:

Responsive Page Canvas Page Grid Page

▪ Responsive pages allow ▪ Canvas pages allow you to ▪ Grid pages allow you to add
you to create layouts that create a dashboard in a data to an empty grid, or
automatically resize and personalized format. They add a table based on an
reflow when viewed on also give you the option to existing model.
different sized screens. overlap different objects.

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Story fundamentals
Toolbar layout

Once you create or open a story, you can add and edit pages, sections, and elements as you like.

The story toolbar has:

▪ File
▪ Insert
▪ Data
▪ Tools
▪ Format
▪ Display

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Story fundamentals
Builder panel

▪ The Builder panel located under the Designer tab is

where you can create your visualizations.
▪ It allows you to choose different types of
visualizations and add filters to the selected widget.
▪ The selected widget will dynamically update
depending on the visualization that you are trying to
create using the Builder panel.

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Story fundamentals
Styling panel

▪ The Styling panel located under the Designer tab

displays styling options available for the selected tile
type.
▪ It gives you the option to choose from different
background colors, font styles, borders, and so on for
the selected widget.
▪ The Styling panel helps make the dashboard
attractive and easy to understand for business users.

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Story fundamentals
Collaboration

Commenting Discussion

▪ Users can also collaborate by commenting on ▪ SAC allows users to collaborate with their
specific visualizations in the story. SAC allows colleagues on stories through a Discussions
users to tag their colleagues and like each panel. Users can invite participants and discuss
other’s comments for better interaction. the story through this messaging space.
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Story fundamentals
Sharing a story

There are two ways to share a story from the File tab:

▪ You can share a story with your colleagues by ▪ You can also export the story in
adding them as a user to your dashboard and PDF, PowerPoint, or Google Slides.
granting them View/Edit Access.
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Story fundamentals
Save

After designing your story, you can save the story from the File tab. The File tab gives you multiple
options to save your story:
▪ Save: Save your progress in the current story.
▪ Save As: Create a copy of your story under a new name in a selected file location.
▪ Save As Template: Convert your story into a template and use it to create new stories in the future.

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Story fundamentals
Edit and View mode

▪ Edit Mode: This is a design-time mode for story designers to make changes to the story. Edit mode is
available only if you have edit rights to the story.
▪ View Mode: This is a runtime mode for business users to view and interact with the story. Story designers
can swap between these two modes to design and preview their story.

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Story fundamentals
Help

The Help button in the top right corner

provides you with helpful resources such as:

▪ Quickstart: Takes you to the getting started page

of the user community to help you learn the
basics of SAP Analytics Cloud.
▪ Help: Provides you with help tailored to where
you are in the product.
▪ Videos: Gives you access to the SAC video
library to help you learn visually.
▪ Additional links at the bottom take you to the
user community, product ideas, and more.

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Story fundamentals
Demo

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Story fundamentals
Resources

Help Documentation: Data Visualization and Stories

Videos: Analytics Training Videos, Video: Share Stories (sap.com)

User Community: Stories, Reporting, and Data Exploration

User Community: Ask Questions

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These materials are provided by SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company for informational purposes only, without representation or
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and SAP SE’s or its affiliated companies’ strategy and possible future developments, products, and/or platforms, directions, and
functionality are all subject to change and may be changed by SAP SE or its affiliated companies at any time for any reason
without notice. The information in this document is not a commitment, promise, or legal obligation to deliver any material, code, or
functionality. All forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ
materially from expectations. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, and they
should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions.
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trademarks of SAP SE (or an SAP affiliate company) in Germany and other countries. All other product and service names
mentioned are the trademarks of their respective companies.
See www.sap.com/trademark for additional trademark information and notices.
Week 2: Story Creation
Unit 2: Visualizations
Visualizations
Widgets

When designing stories there are a number of widgets you can add. Some commonly used widgets
are:
▪ Charts
▪ Tables
▪ Input Controls
▪ Geo Maps
▪ Images
▪ Shapes
▪ Text

These widgets can be found on the Insert tab in the toolbar menu.
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Visualizations
Charts

In SAP Analytics Cloud, we support various visualizations

to analyze your data. Some commonly used charts are:
▪ Bar/Column Chart
▪ Stacked Bar/Column Chart
▪ Waterfall Chart
▪ Line Chart
▪ Numeric Point Chart
▪ Time Series Chart
▪ Pie/Donut Chart
▪ Scatterplot

Story designers can also add custom charts supported with R

library by choosing R Visualization from the Insert tab.

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Visualizations
Add-ons

There are several add-ons available in the action menu (context menu). Clicking the More Actions
menu allows you access to:
▪ Sort
▪ Linked Analysis
▪ Threshold
▪ Reference Line
▪ CGR
▪ Cross Calculation
▪ Hyperlink
▪ Variance

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Visualizations
Demo

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Visualizations
Resources

Help Documentation: Data Visualization and Stories

Videos: Analytics Training Videos

User Community: Stories, Reporting, and Data Exploration

User Community: Ask Questions

Blogs: Getting Started with Interactive Stories in SAP Analytics Cloud

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Events: TechEd 2021 (sap.com)

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These materials are provided by SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company for informational purposes only, without representation or
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The only warranties for SAP or SAP affiliate company products and services are those that are set forth in the express warranty
statements accompanying such products and services, if any. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional
warranty.
In particular, SAP SE or its affiliated companies have no obligation to pursue any course of business outlined in this document or
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and SAP SE’s or its affiliated companies’ strategy and possible future developments, products, and/or platforms, directions, and
functionality are all subject to change and may be changed by SAP SE or its affiliated companies at any time for any reason
without notice. The information in this document is not a commitment, promise, or legal obligation to deliver any material, code, or
functionality. All forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ
materially from expectations. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, and they
should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions.
SAP and other SAP products and services mentioned herein as well as their respective logos are trademarks or registered
trademarks of SAP SE (or an SAP affiliate company) in Germany and other countries. All other product and service names
mentioned are the trademarks of their respective companies.
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Week 2: Story Creation
Unit 3: Tables
Tables
Table widget

Tables in SAP Analytics Cloud are cross tables and can be used in stories to view and analyze
data. The table features and options depend on the table’s data model type (for example, planning,
analytic, or other model types).

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Tables
Builder

Use the Builder to select the measures and dimensions

to include in the rows and columns of your table
▪ By default, the table is a cross-table
▪ You can add multiple measures and multiple dimensions to
your table by using the different axes:
– Rows axis
– Columns axis
▪ The Account object is the container for all your measures:
– Expand it to choose the measures to be used
▪ The Builder also allows you to create local filters on your
table

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Tables
Styling

Use the styling tools to enhance the table presentation.

▪ Change the default font applied
▪ Template can be used to modify the layout of the rows and columns:
– Report Styling
– Alternating Rows
▪ Row height can be specified to control the information density:
– “Super condensed” (height = 20 pixels)
– “Condensed” (height = 24 pixels)
– “Default” (height = 32 pixels)
– “Cosy” (height = 44 pixels)
– “Custom”: specify the height manually

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Calculations

You can create custom calculations for your tables.

▪ The calculation types supported are:
– Aggregations, calculated or restricted measures
– Value-based dimensions
– Difference from, and so on
▪ The Calculation Editor is used to create the
calculations that can be added to your tables.
▪ You apply the calculations either to the Account or to
the Cross Calculations dimension.
▪ Calculations can use input controls.
– Input controls provide variable input for a calculation,
allowing viewers to influence the result

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Tables
Advanced formatting and analysis

Story designers can also:

• Add thresholds to tables and choose how to display the threshold values
• Create linked analysis to create filters and choose which widgets will be updated by the table

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Tables
Demo

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Tables
Resources

Help Documentation: Tables

Videos: Analytics Training Videos

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User Community: Ask Questions

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The information contained herein may be changed without prior notice. Some software products marketed by SAP SE and its
distributors contain proprietary software components of other software vendors. National product specifications may vary.
These materials are provided by SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company for informational purposes only, without representation or
warranty of any kind, and SAP or its affiliated companies shall not be liable for errors or omissions with respect to the materials.
The only warranties for SAP or SAP affiliate company products and services are those that are set forth in the express warranty
statements accompanying such products and services, if any. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional
warranty.
In particular, SAP SE or its affiliated companies have no obligation to pursue any course of business outlined in this document or
any related presentation, or to develop or release any functionality mentioned therein. This document, or any related presentation,
and SAP SE’s or its affiliated companies’ strategy and possible future developments, products, and/or platforms, directions, and
functionality are all subject to change and may be changed by SAP SE or its affiliated companies at any time for any reason
without notice. The information in this document is not a commitment, promise, or legal obligation to deliver any material, code, or
functionality. All forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ
materially from expectations. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, and they
should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions.
SAP and other SAP products and services mentioned herein as well as their respective logos are trademarks or registered
trademarks of SAP SE (or an SAP affiliate company) in Germany and other countries. All other product and service names
mentioned are the trademarks of their respective companies.
See www.sap.com/trademark for additional trademark information and notices.
Week 2: Story Creation
Unit 4: Geospatial Analysis
Geospatial analysis
Overview

In SAP Analytics Cloud, the geo map visualization includes a number of geo map layers that can be
tailored to meet the expectations of the user.

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Geospatial analysis
Geo enrichment

The first step is to import coordinate data or area

data, and enrich it in the modeler.

Geospatial dimensions can be created with:

▪ Latitude and Longitude
Area name in English
▪ Country, Region, Sub-Region
▪ Country level is mandatory
ISO codes
▪ ISO3 and ISO2 codes
▪ Country level is mandatory

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Geospatial analysis
Map layers

The most commonly used geo layers are:

▪ Bubble Layer: Shows each location as a bubble.

Using color and size for the bubble allows us to see
correlation between different measures.
▪ Choropleth Layer: Shows the shape of a geo
location and allows drilling from aggregated levels
such as country into smaller areas such as regions
▪ Heat Map Layer: Allows to show the concentration
of geographical locations.

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Geospatial analysis
Base layer

SAP Analytics Cloud offers different basemap types to

serve as the map background for your data.

Some examples are:

▪ Streets
▪ Satellite
▪ Light Gray
▪ Dark Gray
▪ Transparent Dark Gray

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Geospatial analysis
Demo

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Geospatial analysis
Resources

Help Documentation: Geo Maps, How to Geo Enrich the Model - SAP Help Portal

Help Portal: Search Results – SAP Help Portal

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Webinar: Enrich Your Stories with Geospatial Analysis (on24.com)

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These materials are provided by SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company for informational purposes only, without representation or
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and SAP SE’s or its affiliated companies’ strategy and possible future developments, products, and/or platforms, directions, and
functionality are all subject to change and may be changed by SAP SE or its affiliated companies at any time for any reason
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functionality. All forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ
materially from expectations. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, and they
should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions.
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Week 2: Story Creation
Unit 5: Report Design
Report design
Overview

A report in SAP Analytics Cloud is a paginated-style document that uses tables, charts,
visualizations, text, images, and pictograms to describe data. Tables in reports can span multiple
pages.

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Report design
New report

You can start creating your report by adding a new page. The type of page available for this
use-case is:
Canvas Page

▪ Canvas pages allow you to

create a dashboard or a report
in a personalized format. They
also give you the option to
overlap different objects.

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Report design
Page header and footer

Once you create a report, you can specify the format

of your page
▪ Select a fixed page size
– Sizes at your disposal are: Custom; Letter; A3; A4; etc.
▪ Choose to display or not:
– Page header
– Page footer
▪ Apply a margin for your page:
– The margin can be Normal, Narrow, or Wide

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Report design
Enable pagination

Add your first table into your page and activate the
pagination at VIEW time.
▪ Activate the option “Auto-size And Page Table Vertically”:
– Display all the rows of a table
– Generate multiples pages if the table doesn’t fit on one
page
– Enable navigation between the pages
▪ Repeat table header on pages:
– Conserve the context of the table information by
repeating, or not, the table header on the pages
▪ Relative positioning for elements:
– Avoid information (widgets) to be overlapped by the
auto-resize of the table
– Apply to all widgets placed after the table

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Report design
Sections

Sections behave like a group of widgets that can

be repeated along the elements of a dimension
▪ Add a section widget into your page
▪ Three modes at your disposal:
– “Carrousel” to navigate between the section instances
– Display one instance at a time per page (pagination)
– Or, display multiple instances on pages (pagination)

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Report design
Demo

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Report design
Resources

Help Documentation: Reporting Layout

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These materials are provided by SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company for informational purposes only, without representation or
warranty of any kind, and SAP or its affiliated companies shall not be liable for errors or omissions with respect to the materials.
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and SAP SE’s or its affiliated companies’ strategy and possible future developments, products, and/or platforms, directions, and
functionality are all subject to change and may be changed by SAP SE or its affiliated companies at any time for any reason
without notice. The information in this document is not a commitment, promise, or legal obligation to deliver any material, code, or
functionality. All forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ
materially from expectations. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, and they
should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions.
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trademarks of SAP SE (or an SAP affiliate company) in Germany and other countries. All other product and service names
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Week 2: Story Creation
Unit 6: Linked Analysis and Input Controls
Linked analysis and input controls
Filters

Users can create various story,

page, and widget filters, which helps
them to focus on a specific set of
data.

When viewing a story, users can

change story and page filter values
as well as how the values are
displayed in the filters.

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Linked analysis and input controls
Filter hierarchy

Story Filter Page Filter Widget Filter

▪ The story filter allows you to ▪ The page filter is the ▪ Users can filter a widget by
apply filters for all charts and same as a story filter, selecting members directly on
tables in a story that are based but applies to just one the widget or through the
on the same model. page in a story. Builder panel. Widget filters
apply only to the data displayed
in that widget.
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Linked analysis and input controls
Dimension-based filter

Users can create a story, page, or widget

filter based on a dimension.

As a story designer, these options can be

applied to a dimension-based filter:
• If it is dynamic or fixed
• If it can be edited by viewers
• If it has single or multi select

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Linked analysis and input controls
Measure-based filter

Story and page filters can be based on a measure and its specified range of values. When creating
a measure-based filter, users need to specify one or more dimensions for aggregation context.

For example:
• You need to show data only for regions with $100 million or more in sales revenue
• You can create a measure-based filter on the Sales Revenue measure with Region as
aggregation context.

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Linked analysis and input controls
Advanced filtering

Advanced filtering lets you create story and

page filters based on multiple dimensions by
defining a set of logical conditions.
▪ The dimensions used in advanced filtering can
be filtered using AND or OR conditions. These
conditions can be set to include or exclude the
data that satisfies the filter conditions.
▪ For example, you can create a filter which
includes either the region China and sales
manager Janet Bury or the region North
America and sales manager Gary Dumin.

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Linked analysis and input controls
Measure/dimension input control

Measure and dimension input controls

can make charts and tables dynamic by
allowing users to choose the measures or
dimensions displayed at view time.

Users can then dynamically change the

data displayed in a chart or table by
changing the values of the input control.

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Linked analysis and input controls
Linked analysis

Story designers can create a linked analysis to create filters and choose which charts will be
updated by it. It is a convenient function for linking widgets to control the filtering of one element by
another.

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Linked analysis and input controls
Linked analysis configuration

Story designers can set up linked analysis per

widget (e.g. charts, table, or page input controls).
Designers can enable linked analysis by clicking
the More Actions menu in the widget.

When setting up linked analysis on a widget,

designers can choose which widgets it affects:
▪ Only this Widget
▪ All Widgets in the Story
▪ All Widgets on the Page
▪ Only Selected Widgets

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Linked analysis and input controls
Bookmarks

Bookmarks can give viewers quick and easy

access to frequently used scenarios. There are
two types of bookmarks you can create:
▪ Personal Bookmarks: This type of bookmark is
only visible to you. You can share private
bookmarks with other users who also have access
to the story.
▪ Global Bookmarks: This type of bookmark is
visible to anyone who has view rights on the story.

Today, bookmarks can capture story & page

filters, input controls, charts, tables, and geo
filters.

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Linked analysis and input controls
Demo

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Linked analysis and input controls
Resources

Help Documentation: Linked Analysis

Help Documentation: Input Controls

Help Portal: Measure-based Filters

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and SAP SE’s or its affiliated companies’ strategy and possible future developments, products, and/or platforms, directions, and
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without notice. The information in this document is not a commitment, promise, or legal obligation to deliver any material, code, or
functionality. All forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ
materially from expectations. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, and they
should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions.
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mentioned are the trademarks of their respective companies.
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Week 2: Story Creation
Unit 7: Design Best Practices
Design best practices
Introduction

There are a few things to keep in mind when

creating stories that will help SAP Analytics
Cloud work at its best. Here are a few examples:
▪ Use responsive pages
▪ Choose the right template
▪ Design using styling preferences
▪ Leverage dynamic input controls
▪ Use dynamic text token
▪ Check device preview

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Design best practices
Performance optimization tips

Story designers will be guided with tips during

the dashboard creation process to ensure the
story is created following the best practices for
performance.

The designer will be notified mostly when:

▪ The story contains too many pages​ Expanded Page Filter
▪ The story page contains too many process-heavy
widgets
▪ High Cardinality dimension page filter is expanded
▪ Auto Top N can be applied to the widgets
▪ The image being uploaded exceeds the
recommended limit

Too Many Pages Process-Heavy Widgets

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Optimized view mode
Regular View Mode Optimized View Mode

Optimized view mode includes several

performance and usability improvements and
can also reduce story loading times. Some
common features are:
▪ View time undo/redo
▪ Ghost loading indicator
▪ Tooltip improvements
▪ Input control hierarchy improvements
▪ Collapsed input controls & story filters
discoverability
▪ Information & configuration options in a single
menu

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Demo

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Resources

Help Documentation: Data Visualization and Stories

Videos: Analytics Training Videos

User Community: Stories, Reporting, and Data Exploration

User Community: Ask a Question

Blogs: Best Practices for Performance | SAP Blogs,

Experience Performance and Usability Improvements with
SAP Analytics Cloud Stories | SAP Blogs

Webinars: Tips & Tricks for Optimizing Story Performance

in SAP Analytics Cloud, Best Practices for Designing Your
SAP Analytics Cloud Stories

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