System Variables in SAC

[vinayakgole]

Hi,

I have a requirement to create a url which should pass user information within the url. In Business Objects we have the @ variables and opendocument which can solve the purpose, however in SAC, even though I have the variables in dynamic text, there is no way to capture them into a url. Please advise if there is a way to create a url as such.

Thanks

Vinayak

[xjhacking · Accepted solution]

Hi Vinayak,

Maybe you can achieve this with a workaround where you include your "non-data" variables (user name, time etc.) in the dataset results and make it part of the selection variables?

Cheers,
Xavier

[vinayakgole · Accepted solution]

Thank you Xavier,

And that is what we did. We had to add all the variables to the dataset. The user variable came from SSO.

Regards

Vinayak

[mfoeken]

Hi Vinayak,

I guess the option to explore would be to create an Analytical Application and create the URL incorporating these variables as part of the string that can be used as a link. I don't see any options as part of the URL API or through the use of stories.

Kind regards,

Martijn van Foeken | Interdobs

[vinayakgole]

Thank you Martijn!!

[mfoeken]

Hi Vinayak,

Can you explain in a bit more detail what the use case is that you want to achieve? There is an URL API for SAP Analytics Cloud. You can find the link here: SAP Analytics Cloud URL API: Filter Parameters.

Kind regards,

Martijn van Foeken | Interdobs

[vinayakgole]

Thank you Martijn for your response.

I am trying to build something like point 11 in this document

https://blogs.sap.com/2014/05/03/open-document-lingo-hyperlink-through-the-whole-bi-platform-incl-de...

However, the url is linked to an external website where username, time and system are expected to be passed through parameters in the url and thus auto populated in the web page.

Please do let me know your thoughts

thanks

Vinayak

[deshmukh]

@vinayakgole We also have same requirement. Pls share solution if you achieved it.