Setting Up A Basic Story

An SAP Analytics Cloud Story is the primary medium for data reporting and analysis. It's often referred to as a report or a dashboard, because it can consist of detailed tables, highly visual charts, interactive elements, or even a combination of these options.

To create your first story, please navigate to the main menu or directly to the corresponding folder and select the create button (+) in the upper navigation bar. Select Story to create a story used for building your individual SAP Analytics Cloud analyses.

When creating SAP Analytics Cloud stories, you have different page types from which to choose at the beginning. Create a story by selecting one of these layout options.

• Responsive: Required for viewing on mobile devices; dynamically changes layout depending on the viewer's monitor/screen size.
• Canvas: A fixed page size that does not change, no matter the size of the viewer's monitor size.
• Grid: A table-only page that's available only in the Classic Design Experience and will not be available in the Optimized Design Experience.

When you create a story, you're prompted to choose Classic Design Experience or Optimized Design Experience mode.

SAP encourages you to use the Optimized Design Experience mode. The Optimized Design Experience includes many usability and performance improvements and is the prerequisite for future story enhancements. There is a set of features that may not be available at this time as SAP continues to enhance the Optimized Design Experience mode; however, these and other new features are being added with each quarterly release and will be made available only in the Optimized Story Experience. Furthermore, it will be the new default experience in future releases.

The Classic Design Experience is still available and provides access to features developed before Q2 2022. New functionalities such as dynamic pictures are not covered in Classic Design Mode. For this reason, we'll focus on the Optimized Design Experience mode in the course, as this will be the only mode available in the future and, as mentioned, some advanced features are already only available in this mode.

When opening your SAP Analytics Cloud story, you'll be able to use different access modes: Edit Mode and View Mode. You can view your story by choosing View in the top-right corner. If the story doesn't contain scripting elements, you can choose to view it in the current browser tab or in a new one via the View Story In option. If it does contain scripting elements, you can only view the story in a new tab. In the Edit mode, you can create and make changes in your story.