Importing from the Content Network
The Content Network can help you share content across systems, get content for your
line of business, or find sample templates, stories, and presentations.
Prerequisites
To import from the content network, you must have permissions to read and maintain
Lifecycle data. The Admin and BI Admin standard application roles contain these
permissions.
Context
The Content Network provides access to public sample content and business content, as
well as any content that has been privately shared with your system.
Note
The user who imports the package becomes the owner of it. However, the user
must have read permissions on the relevant object types to access the
package content.
Use of the sample content and business content is optional. You can browse the
content and choose packages to add to your system from within the application. For
detailed documentation on all business package content, see the SAP Analytics Cloud Content Documentation.
The Overview page of a content package
Procedure
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Select .
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Choose the type of content that you want to add:
- My Content: Any packages that have been privately
shared with your system from another system.
- Samples: A collection of technical samples for
stories and SAP Digital Boardroom presentations as well as
templates to easily create your own layouts.
- 3rd Party Content: End-to-end business scenarios
for various industries and lines of business, created by SAP partners. This
content can include models, stories, and SAP Digital
Boardroom presentations, and it comes ready to run with sample
data or live data connections. Some third party content is paid content. You
can open these packages in the Content Network to see the content
description and a link to the SAP App Center to purchase the
content. These links will lead you outside SAP Analytics Cloud.
- SAP Business Content: Industry and line of
business content created by SAP, including models, stories, SAP
Digital Boardroom presentations, analytic applications, and
smart predict scenarios.
A list of available packages is displayed. You can filter the list of
pre-defined packages based on
Industries and
Lines of Business.
Note
This filter is available
for
Samples,
3rd Party Business
Content, and
Business
Content.
Any package that you have already imported to
your system shows a check mark in the
Imported
column.
Note
If you're importing from the My Content area and
you don't see the package you want, take a look at the security
settings.
- From the My Content page, select
(Settings).
- Set the Allow all the systems to share
content switch.
With the switch off, you'll only
see content shared by the systems that you add to the table
below. When you switch it on, you can block specific systems
using the table.
- To block or allow imports from a specific system, select (Add
System) and enter the system URL.
- Select OK, and then refresh the page to see
an updated list of packages.
If you still don't see the package, make sure that your system is on the
same version or a later version than the system that you exported from.
If not, the package won't appear until your system is updated.
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Select the package that you want to add to your system.
An overview of the content appears. To get a quick summary of the import
settings and whether any existing content on your system will be
overwritten, take a look at the Import Overview
table.
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If necessary, select the Terms and Conditions checkbox
at the bottom of the Overview tab.
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If you need to change any of the settings, select the Import
Options tab.
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Under Import Schedule, select one of the following
options to specify what happens when the package is updated in the content
network:
- None: No updates are made on your system. This
option is automatically selected for packages that cannot be updated in the
content network.
- Notify for new content: You receive a
notification and can choose whether to import the new version of the package
to your system.
- Automatically update new content: The updated
package is automatically imported to your system.
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Select an option for the Overwrite Preferences.
If an object selected for import does not exist on your system, the object
will be created and its data will be imported. For objects that already
exist in your system, the
Overwrite Preferences
determine whether to update the object and its data.
Note
If objects or data
on your system will be overwritten by the import, a warning appears in
the import window, and next to the relevant objects in the
Content list. If you have made changes or
enhancements to your sample content, follow the instructions in the
Next Steps section to avoid losing your
work.
- Don’t overwrite objects or data:
This setting
prevents any existing objects in your system from being overwritten or
updated with new data. You are notified if any of the objects selected
for import already exist in your system.
For example, you can
choose this setting if you have replaced the data in an imported model
with your own data, and want to avoid overwriting this
data.
- Overwrite data only:
If you have made changes
to the structure of an imported model and want to avoid losing those
changes, choose this setting.
Data is imported into each object,
but the objects themselves are not updated.
The
Privacy and Data Access
Control settings for models, as well as the permission
settings for users and roles, remain unchanged.
- Overwrite objects and data:
Objects on your
system can be overwritten and their data can be updated.
For
example, you may choose this option if you are not using any of the
content for business tasks.
Select Including
permissions to update the Privacy
and Data Access Control settings for models and
dimensions. The corresponding permissions assigned to each role are also
updated.
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In the Content list, choose which objects to import, and
whether to include the data for each imported dimension and model.
You can select and deselect individual objects, or types of objects (for
example, Models or
Stories).
The Impacted Object column shows warnings for objects
that will overwrite content on your system.
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Select Import.
The import process begins. You receive a notification when the process is
complete, or if an error occurs.
If you selected Don’t overwrite objects or data or
Overwrite data only, a notification will let you
know if any of the content wasn’t imported to avoid overwriting existing
content.
To view the log of updates and imports for a package, select the package in
the content network and choose
(History).
Next Steps
Note
Because imported content in your system can be deleted and replaced if the
package is imported again with certain Overwrite
Preferences, you’ll want to consider how to maintain the
content. This is particularly important if you’re using business content in
a production system. See Maintaining Business Content for details.