Story Preferences and Details

Set your SAP Analytics Cloud story preferences to specify default formatting options in a story (such as the page size and background color). You can also set the story details to specify how to open the story.

Preferences: Applying Page Settings
  1. From the file menu select Start of the navigation path(Edit Story) Next navigation step PreferencesEnd of the navigation path.
  2. Select Page Settings.
  3. Select the default page settings for your story.

    The following page settings are available for Canvas Pages:

    Formatting Option

    Description

    Default Page Background

    Select a default background color for the pages in your story.

    Default Page Size

    Select On to set the default page size in your story. You can select a predetermined size from the list (Letter, Legal, Tabloid, A3, A4, B4, B5) or set a custom size by entering the page width and height in pixels.

    Note
    Before you can change the page size, you may need to rearrange tiles in your canvas to fit the new size.
    The following page settings are available for Responsive Pages:

    Formatting Option

    Description

    Default Page Properties

    Select a default background color and the grid spacing for the pages in your story.

    Default Lane Title Properties

    Select On to show the page title. You can also select the title style, font, size, color, and alignment.

  4. Select if you want to apply the new page settings to new pages, lanes, and tiles only or to all pages, lanes, and tiles currently in your story.
  5. Select OK.
Preferences: Applying Tile Settings
  1. From the file menu select Start of the navigation path(Edit Story) Next navigation step PreferencesEnd of the navigation path.
  2. Select Tile Settings.
  3. Select the default tile settings for your story. The following tile settings are available:

    Formatting Options

    Description

    Charts/Geo
    • Default Tile Background – select a default background color for the chart tiles in your story.

    • Default Text – select a default font and text color for the chart tiles in your story.

    • Default Color Palettes – select the default color palettes for charts and geomaps in your story.

    • Default Axis Line Color – select the default axis line color for charts in your story.

    Tables
    • Default Tile Background – select a default background color for the text tiles in your story.

    • Default Text – select a default font and text color for the following text in table tiles: All Text, Title, Subtitle.

    • Default Styling Template – select a styling template. For example, Standard, Report-Styling or Alternating Rows.

    • Default Threshold Style – select a default format for threshold values.
      • Symbol (default) – use the story-defined symbols and colors for the threshold ranges.
      • Color Values – the threshold colors are applied to the cell data.
      • Color Background – the threshold colors are applied to the cell background.
      • Color Background Without Values – the threshold colors are applied to the cell background and the values are hidden.
    Text
    • Default Tile Background – select a default background color for the text tiles in your story.

    • Default Text – select a default font and text color for the text tiles in your story.

    Shapes
    • Default Tile Background – select a default background color for the shape tiles in your story.

    Input Controls
    • Default Tile Background – select a default background color for the Input Control tiles in your story.

    • Default Text – select a default font and text color for the Input Control tiles in your story.

    Others
    • Default Tile Background – select a default background color for the other tiles in your story.

    • Default Text – select a default font and text color for the other tiles in your story.

  4. Select if you want to apply the new tile settings to new pages and tiles only or to all pages and tiles currently in your story.
  5. Select OK.
Story Details

There are some options that can be set for the entire story.

Translation: You can create a request to have a translation service translate the story descriptions. For more information on story translation, see Enabling a Story for Translation.

View Time Optimization:

The optimized view mode includes several usability improvements and it can also reduce story loading times in certain scenarios. For more information on this view mode, see Optimized View Mode Limitations.

To get the full benefit of optimized view mode, use SAP Analytics Cloud in a Google Chrome browser.

Viewer Settings: Stories usually open in Story View Mode but you can change it to open in Explorer instead.

However, Explorer mode is not available in the following circumstances:
  • Using the mobile application.

  • Using Mobile Safari in Embed mode.

  • Enable Explorer is not on for any chart or table.

Page Navigation: You can navigate story pages using a tab bar that shows each page as a tab, or using a drop list. The system administrator sets a default navigation option, but you can change it for your story.

Override Default Settings: allows you to change the default navigation option for your story pages.
  • Tab Bar: Show a separate tab for each story page.

  • Dropdown: A drop list of all your story pages.

Explorer Settings: Enable Explorer for all Charts and Tables overrides the state of any Enable Explorer settings that are already applied to charts and tables. However, it does not reset those settings. When you turn off the story-level setting, the charts and tables will go back to using the Enable Explorer setting.