SAP Analytics Cloud is a powerful frontend and offers multiple options to share stories with consumers.
When consumption is growing it is also very important that new developments are deployed smoothly for end users.
Especially in a landscape with one tenant, acting as development system, quality system and productive system this could be a challenge.
becomes a common feature, that would also be a ‘nice to have’ in SAP Analytics Cloud Applications. This blog describes how to switch themes in an SAP Analytics Cloud Application and what you should be aware of while developing.
In this blog I want to focus on the usage of the BAdI for “Refining Input Help in Variable Screen” in context of SAP Analytics Cloud to enable special context-based filtering. In our example I would like to restrict the time and another dimension to values I choose randomly.
When working with a single SAP Analytics Cloud tenant version should be handled carefully. Especially handling of shared URLs including storyIds could lead to unintentionally negative impacts for end users. Keeping the URL/storyid and be able to develop without pressure is in my opinion very helpful for developers and consumers of a story.