Enhancing your visualizations using Popups

[vrajgopal]

When building a corporate dashboard (Stories), creativity in visualizations is often restricted by established design standards and color schemes. Most corporate visualizations, whether they display the topline or bottom line, will look similar. There's not much room for creative expression, but SAP Analytics Cloud does offer some features that can add a WOW factor to your dashboards. Popups is one such feature which can be used to enhance visual appeal.

I have used the below use case as an example to show to use Popups.

Use Case:

Superstore Model

Requirement is to have the ability to drilldown/Analyze by clicking on a dimension

Steps

1- Open a blank canvas

2- Create a chart as below.

3- Rename the Chart in Outline

4- Add Popup

5- Designer panel – Enable header footer and change the buttons accordingly

6- Add a Chart in the Popup as below

7- Click on FX 1st Chart (Sales_Chart_Category), Select OnSelect and write the below code

8- Click on FX Popup_1 and write as below

9- Save the story and open it in view mode. Click on “Furniture” and below should happen

Now you can stop here, or you can give the user option to drill down further by adding another Popup.

Follow the steps below to add another Popup.

1- Repeat step 4,5,6

2- Click on FX Chart (Sub_Category) under Popup_1, Select OnSelect and write the below code

3- Click on FX Popup_2 and write as below

4- Save the story and open it in view mode. Click on any of subcategory dimension and below should happen

This should help add the visual appeal to the stories which we create. Hope this helps.

Let me know your thoughts.