Customizing Your Home Screen
Your Home screen is a place where you can access your recent stories and visualizations as tiles. You can also add useful reminders such as personal notes.
When you start SAP Analytics Cloud, the Home screen displays tile-like widgets to help you get started working on your analytics tasks.
Select one of the following options from the Get Started widget:
- Explore a sample story: Explore a feature-rich story to help familiarize you with key SAP Analytics Cloud capabilities.
- Create an account: Access your profile settings including contact details, display language preference, and a display name.
- Create your first story: Quickly launch the story creation process.
- Learn more in the help center: Access the SAP Analytics Cloud help topics, release notes, and instructional videos.
You can also display on the Home tiles for Featured Files and Recent Files. The Recent Files tile lists the most recent files you have viewed. You can use the tile filter to view specific file types (including stories, presentations, and analytic applications).
To add or remove a tile from the Home screen go, to and select or deselect the item you want to add or remove.
Administrators can make content easier for end users to access by adding the Featured Files tile to their Home screen.
- Go to the Files page: .
- Select the System icon from menu bar to the left of the file list.
- Search and select the file(s) you want to add to feature; select the Featured File icon from the toolbar.
You can customize the display background and the logo displayed on the Home screen.
- Go to Edit Home Screen dialog. to display the
- Select an option from Select Background list.
- To change the currently displayed logo, select an option from the
Select Logo list and choose
OK. NoteIf you want to brand your background with your company logo, select to access the file containing your custom logo.
- Go to New Note dialog. to display the
- Enter a title for the note and the text.
- Choose OK to create your note and pin it to the Home screen.
These tabs are available on the home screen:
- Today: This tab is the default tab. It contains the tiles and notes that you've pinned.
- Catalog: This is a single access point for content published for users within SAP Analytics Cloud. Each published item is displayed as a card. For more information see Catalog.
- Favorites: This tab lists the resources you have chosen to favorite.
- Shared With Me: This tab lists all the resources shared with you by other users.
The Catalog, Favorites, and Shared With Me tabs can be disabled by an Admin user or a user granted the required permissions.
You can choose which one of the tabs is displayed by default when you click
:- Go to Edit Home Screen dialog. to display the
- Select a tab from the Default Tab list.
Task | More Information |
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Edit a note | Choose | to edit the note text and title.
Navigate to a story | If the tile is part of a story, choose the | to open the source story. If you edit and save the story, the changes are reflected in the tile.
Delete a tile or note | Choose | to remove a tile or note from the Home screen.
View a tile in Full Screen mode | This option only applies to chart tiles. Choose (Full Screen) to expand the tile to the full size of the Home screen. Choose (Exit Full Screen) to return. |