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.

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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

Select (Main Menu) Browse Content Network.
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.
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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.
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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.
1. From the My Content page, select (Settings).
2. 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.
3. To block or allow imports from a specific system, select (Add System) and enter the system URL.
4. 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.
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.
If necessary, select the Terms and Conditions checkbox at the bottom of the Overview tab.
If you need to change any of the settings, select the Import Options tab.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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

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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.