Enhancing Generic Navigation Widgets with Scripting

In SAP Analytics Cloud, you can add scripting to checkboxes, radio buttons, dropdowns, and list boxes. All of these generic navigation widgets are used in a similar way.

Watch this short video to find out more about enhancing stories by adding scripting to generic navigation widgets.

In summary, there are two steps to enhance a generic navigation widget with scripting:

1. Define the items for the widget in the Builder panel. It can be defined in three different ways:
   1. Manually, using direct input
   2. Dynamically, using scripting
   3. Dynamically, using property binding
2. Define the action that should be executed in the widget’s onSelect script

In this lesson, we will focus on manually defining the items using direct input. We will create a dropdown that will allow report viewers to easily select monthly or quarterly data in a time series chart.