Copying and Pasting Widgets from Story to Analytic Application

You can copy one or several supported story widgets to an analytic application in the same browser page.

Context

You can only copy widgets from a story to an analytic application, but not the other way around, from an analytic application to a story.

The places where you can copy widgets to can be the canvas, pop up or a widget container such as a panel or a tab page. You can directly copy a chart or a table widget, or a chart or a table in the Smart Insight panel and the Examine panel to an analytic application.

After successfully copying the widget, the state of the widgets, for example the filter, hierarchy, ranking and sorting states and so on will look exactly like that in story, also all relevant settings such as the data binding, necessary variables and styling settings and the other properties will be kept.

Note

Unsupported widgets and features:

  • Some story widgets which are not yet supported in analytic application, such as value driver tree and input control won’t be pasted to the target analytic application.

  • Some story’s features which are not yet supported in analytic application, such as link analysis and dynamic image won’t be copied to the application.

Other limitations:

  • The status of some specific types of story filters, such as geo polygon filter and panning or zooming won't be copied to the application.

  • When copying grouped widgets, all widgets will be copied to the application. However, the grouping information won’t be copied.

  • Thresholds and colors assigned to a table or chart won't be copied to the application.

  • Chart or table with link dimensions won't be copied to the application.

  • Data cell level comments will be copied to the application. However, widget-based comments won't.

  • If a story table’s dynamic text is referenced to other resource outside the copying scope, the dynamic text won't be copied to the application.

  • Hyperlinks won’t be copied along with a widget if its type is not External Hyperlink.

Procedure

You can copy a widget either via Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V or follow the steps below:

  1. In the story, select the widget or a group of widgets you want to copy.
  2. Click the (More Actions) beside the widget, in the quick menu choose Copy.
  3. Exit the story and go to the analytic application you want to copy the widget to.
  4. Focus your mouse on the place where you want to copy the widget to, for example the canvas, popup or container widget.
  5. From the tool bar, click the button (Copy and Paste) and choose Paste.

    The widget will be pasted to the selected place.