Providing Feedback Using Discussions and Comments

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to provide feedback.

Access and Contribute to Discussions

You can use the Discussion feature to easily collaborate with teams and users.

To create a discussion, select the Collaboration icon. Choose one or more people with whom you wish to collaborate and then start a conversation. You can message, add attachments, and even link to other stories using the plus icon at the bottom of the assistant.

Examples of the discussion feature

In the following video, we will explore the basic functionality of the Discussion feature in SAP Analytics Cloud.

Add Comments

Commenting is a great way to offer feedback on specific elements in a story. Select the element on which you wish to comment, choose the comment icon, and enter your message. Comments can be addressed to specific team members by tagging them with the @ symbol.

Comments can be made on a story page, a data point, or a widget and can be exported to a file from the story.

A comment on a chart

Watch this video to learn more about the Comments feature.

Note

Your comments can be up to 10,000 characters long, excluding comments on dimensions (comments on dimension have a limit of 255 characters). SAP Analytics Cloud keeps track of the commenting history.

SAP Analytics Cloud, AI-assisted commenting

If enabled, AI-assisted commenting is available to help you summarize comments on table data cells and within a comment widget, extracting key information and insights. This applies to both individual comments and comment threads. Within tables, you can even summarize comments of descendants of a parent node.

AI-assisted commenting also allows you to rephrase your text before adding a comment on a data cell or in a comment widget, ensuring the message you try to convey is clear and effective.

More information can be found on the SAP Help Portal Use AI-Assisted Commenting for Data Point Comments and Use AI-Assisted Features of Comment Widget in Stories documents.

Provide Feedback Using Discussion and Comments

Business Scenario: You are part of an international team responsible for analyzing the information in a story. You need to communicate with your team members regarding the story and information in it, and you decide to use SAP Analytics Cloud's discussion and comments functionality.

Task Flow: In this practice exercise, you will:

  • Add a comment on a widget in the story.
  • Add a comment on a page in the story.
  • Turn off comment mode.
  • Use the discussion functionality to provide feedback to a team.