While you can use SAP Analytics Cloud story design capabilities for the majority of your reporting, dashboard, and planning needs, you may need to work with developers in your IT organization to create more custom stories.
Stories can incorporate scripting so that developers can create a highly customized and interactive experience for story viewers. However, a story can also be scripted to have even less functionality than a standard SAP Analytics Cloud story, for example, removing all context menu options.
The broad range of customization options (from very static to highly interactive) possible through scripting options when editing a story.
Scripting Capabilities
The scripting language used for stories is a subset of JavaScript. The JavaScript Script Editor in the scripting environment is similar to other SAP editors. You can use Ctrl+Space to access available functions and data to speed up your script writing. In addition, the editor provides auto-complete and syntax check as you write.
Enhance a Story with Scripting
The following demonstration video will show you how you can use scripting to enhance your stories.
Extension Capabilities
Story design options are not limited to the defined set within the story builder. You can ask developers to create custom widgets and R widgets to add even more visualization options to your stories.
Additional Information
Creating extended stories is covered in more detail in the Acquiring Basic Scripting Skills to Extend Stories in SAP Analytics Cloud learning journey.
Creating R visualizations is covered more detail in the Create R Visualizations in SAP Analytics Cloud | SAP Learning learning journey.