Sharing and Collaborating on Mobile

Share story, Digital Boardroom, and analytic application links, create discussions with colleagues, and manage your notifications in the mobile app.

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Note
Most of the information below does not apply to the Android app.
Annotate and Share with Others (iOS app only)

You can now add a drawing or text to a story, Boardroom presentation, or analytic application by selecting the annotations icon (). When you're done, share it with your colleagues.

Tap on the top toolbar and use these tools to mark up the page:
Tool Description
Use your finger to draw on the page; for example, to circle or highlight data points of interest. You can choose from a selection of different colors.
Use your finger to erase your drawings.
Add text using the iOS keyboard. Use your finger to tap and drag the text box to the location you want on the page. With the box selected, tap Edit to change your text or Delete to remove the text box.

Once you're done, tap to share your annotated page with others by email or other iOS options. You can also save it for later; for example, by using Add to Notes:

You can add to an existing note, or tap Save to create a note. Open your Notes app on your device to see your new note with the added image.

Share Links (iOS)
Links to stories, Digital Boardroom presentations, and analytic applications opened on a mobile device automatically launch the SAP Analytics Cloud mobile app and go directly to that content. For example, let's say you receive an email on your mobile device with a story link. To open the story directly:
  1. Tap the link in your email. Your mobile browser opens, prompting you to log on.
  2. Log on with your SAP Analytics Cloud credentials.
  3. Tap OK when promoted by the message Do you want to open with the Mobile App?.
  4. Tap Open when prompted by the message Open this page in "Analytics"?.
You can send links to a colleague from the mobile app by tapping in a story, presentation, or analytic application:

You can also copy the URL when viewing a story in the SAP Analytics Cloud web application by choosing Start of the navigation path Next navigation step Share StoryEnd of the navigation path.

Another way to share is to swipe left on an entry in the Home or Files tabs and tap on the Share option.

Accessing Content Shared using App Links on Android
You can access content on Android devices using App links sent through email or shared with you through the Share functionality in SAP Analytics Cloud.
Note
When using an Android device, you cannot access content when it is shared from the iOS app. Only links containing the following domains are currently supported:
  • *.sapbusinessobjects.cloud
  • *.sapanalytics.cloud

  1. Tap on the app link.

    You are prompted to choose which app you want to use to open the link. You can choose either the (Android)Analytics app, or any supported browsers.

  2. If you selected to use the Analytics app:
    • Please provide your password if the app is not launched.
    • After your credentials are confirmed, the shared content is displayed.
  3. If you opted to open the link using a listed browser, the shared content will display after the browser is launched.
Share Custom URL Scheme Links (iOS)

If you are a content designer or administrator, you can embed story, Digital Boardroom, and analytic application deep links into content that uses the SAP Analytics Cloud mobile app's custom URL scheme. The mobile app is opened directly from this link, without the extra confirmations and dialogs your users encounter with a normal browser link. The custom URL scheme for a story looks like this:

sap-analytics-cloud://<customerdomain>.<region>.<domain>/?type=story&id=<storyID>
Note
These links work only on an iOS mobile device.

For example: sap-analytics-cloud://mycompany.us1.sapanalytics.cloud/?type=story&id=DBF65A20A0FE24AE11F0B2BA75375J95

When you establish a deep link for the mobile app into other applications, these links can be used to pass prompt parameters, page indexes, and filters.

You can also open Digital Boardroom presentations directly by changing the type parameter to type https://help.sap.com/viewer/a4406994704e4af5a8559a640b496468/release/en-US/4818f7d4ffc241d6ac646e4974e7ba6c.html=presentation.

For analytic applications change the type parameter to appBuilding.

How to use to use deep links to pass parameters

The workflow below describes how to best implement deep links with the iOS mobile app.
  1. Establish the deep link.
    1. Open the story to which you want to pass parameter values.
    2. Tap on the Share icon and tap on Mail to send the link via email.
    3. Open your mail box to find the URL that will serve as the deep link.
  2. To pass your parameters, you need to identify the following:
    • Model ID
    • Parameter ID
    • Parameter Value
    Note
    Refer to the following SAP Analytics Cloud API documentation https://help.sap.com/viewer/a4406994704e4af5a8559a640b496468/release/en-US/4818f7d4ffc241d6ac646e4974e7ba6c.html for more information on how to find these values.
  3. Add all the requisite information to the URL according to the following format <TENANT>/type=story&id=<STORY_ID>?&tenantId=<TENANT_ID>&f01Model=<MODEL_ID>&f01Dim=<Dimension_ID>&f01Val=<Value>.

Collaborate with Colleagues (iOS)

Tap Collaboration to chat with colleagues in real-time.

Tap + to create a new discussion.
Link stories and add images located on your mobile device to provide more context to your discussion.
You can view and manage all discussions directly from your mobile device, including archiving and deleting discussions that are no longer active.
Note
Collaboration does not support the sharing of analytic applications.

Receive and Manage Notifications (iOS)

Tap Notifications to keep on top of your notifications on the go.

Launch a shared story by tapping the notification.

You can open shared stories, analytic applications, and invited discussions directly by tapping the appropriate notification. Additional notifications, such as when discussions have been archived, can also be read on your mobile device.

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