AI-assisted Comments

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to add AI assisted comments in SAP Analytics Cloud.

Now let’s look at how we can add AI assisted comments in SAP Analytics Cloud. You can use the AI-assisted commenting feature to summarize data point comments. It’s also possible to rephrase the text using generative AI before adding a data point comment.

Data Point Comments

In addition to adding metadata comments to a widget, you can also comment on a specific data point in a table and in a comment widget. A comment on a data point is similar to commenting on a single cell in Microsoft Excel. Data point comments can be made only to planning models or an SAP BPC live model.

In order to add data point comments, you first must enable the Allow Data Point Comments option in the Properties section of the builder panel for the table.

Continuing in the story that we have already created, select the table widget.

In the Builder panel on th right-hand side, scroll to the bottom and locate the Properties section, then select Allow data point comments.

Add Data Point Comments and rephrase with AI

Once the table is enabled to allow data point comments, you can add one as follows:

Select a base data cell from the table where we will add a comment (for example Gross Margin for Africa), right-click the cell and then select Add Data Point Comment.

Enter your comment in the displayed dialog and select Add Comment to submit it. You can copy and paste the following comment text shown here:
Code Snippet
```
12
Gross Margin for Africa MU is one of the stronger performers. Invest further to overtake USA result. 
```

Note

The comment is posted as part of a thread, and a colored wedge shape is now displayed at the top right of the cell indicating that there is a Data Point Comment associated with the cell.

Repeat step 1 to add a second comment to the same data cell, right-click it and then select Add Data Point Comment.
This time we will use AI functionality to rephrase the comment. Copy and paste the comment text shown here, and then select the Rephrase button:
Code Snippet
```
12
 It is the second best performer overall in terms of Gross Margin.
```

The comment will be rephrased automatically, and a tagline will appear below confirming it was Created with AI. Select Add Comment to submit it.

Finally, let’s add another comment to a different cell. Right-click the cell Cost of Goods Sold for Africa and then select Add Data Point Comment.

Enter your comment in the displayed dialog and select Add Comment to submit it. You can copy and paste the following comment text shown here:
Code Snippet
```
12
Cost of goods sold is too high here. What can be done to improve this result?
```

Summarize Comments

We can use the AI-assisted commenting feature to Summarize Comments of Descendants that have been added in the table. We have added 3 comments so far, now let’s create a separate comments column to view and then summarize them under Net Income.

Right-click on the column header Africa, and select Add client calculation → Comment → Single.

You will see the comments that you submitted previously have been automatically added into the column (For Gross Margin you added two comments, so the most recent comment is displayed in the cell).

We are going to add a summary of these comments in the Net Income cell of the Comments column. Right-click on the Net Income cell in the Comment column, then select Summarize Comments of Descendants (English)

The cell will display Summarizing… while the AI is creating the summary.

After a few seconds the AI summary of the comments of the descendants of Net Income will be displayed in the cell.

You have now summarized your Data Point Comments using AI.

Select File and then the Save to save the Story.