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Learning SAP Analytics Cloud

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Learning SAP Analytics Cloud

Overview of this book

The book starts with the basics of SAP Analytics Cloud (formerly known as SAP BusinessObjects Cloud) and exposes almost every significant feature a beginner needs to master. Packed with illustrations and short, essential, to-the-point descriptions, the book provides a unique learning experience. Your journey of exploration starts with a basic introduction to the SAP Analytics Cloud platform. You will then learn about different segments of the product, such as Models, Stories, Digital Boardroom, and so on. Then, you are introduced to the product's interface: the Home screen, the main menu, and more. Then comes the hands-on aspect of the book, which starts with model creation. Next, you learn how to utilize a model to prepare different types of stories(reports) with the help of charts, tables, Geo Maps, and more. In the final chapters of this book, you will learn about Digital Boardroom, Collaboration, and Administration.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Story and page filters

As mentioned earlier, you add filters to your stories and pages to restrict the scope of your analysis result. In SAP Analytics Cloud, you can create two types of filters: story filters and page filters.

If you want to apply filters to all charts in a story, use the story filter. The page filter, as the name implies, can be applied to just one page in a story. These filters can be created after adding at least one chart to a story.

If you have related page filters in the same story or page, they have a cascading effect. For example, if you have states and cities filters on a page and you switch the states filter from All to Oregon, the cities filter refreshes to show only cities in the state of Oregon. All other cities are hidden.

In addition to these filters, you can add filters to individual dimensions that appear on your charts. You added such a filter...