Find and Access Content in the Catalog

Your organization may have hundreds or thousands of saved stories. Content creators probably carefully created some of those stories, but some others might contain outdated information, or be the result of users experimenting with various features. How can you tell which stories you should be using?

Find them in the Catalog!

The Catalog is a single access point for content published to users and teams within SAP Analytics Cloud. Your organization's content creators can publish the stories that they'd like you to use to the Catalog, which is one of the tabs on your Home page. Because a special permission is needed to publish content to the Catalog, you'll know that the Catalog content has been vetted by a content creator.

Various options are available to quickly find specific cards:

• Use the provided sort options to display the content as best suits your interest.

  

• Use the Search field to find a specific card. You can search for a resource name, description, tags, User ID, and Display names.
• Filter the Catalog content based on predefined categories or specific values within categories. See the next section for details.

When a lot of content has been published to the Catalog, it can be difficult to find specific content. To help you hide content you're not interested in, use the filtering feature.

Filters are defined by your administrator. For example, your administrator might set up a Country filter. When users publish content to the Catalog, they can apply country filters that are relevant to the content.

Example: In the image below, several items have been published to the Catalog:

The users who published the salaries dataset and sample story (the upper two cards) applied the country filters Nauru and Tuvalu.

When you look in the Catalog to discover content, if you're only interested in content related to Nauru and Tuvalu, you would select those two countries in the Filter panel, and then only those two items would appear in your Catalog view:

Notice that the applied filters appear in the Filter panel, and also beside the Filter button. You can remove filters by clicking , or by deselecting them in the panel. You can clear all of the filters by clicking Clear Filters at the bottom of the panel.

You can also filter the content based on the published content types listed above.

For more information about how filters are predefined, see Enable Content Discoverability with the Analytics Catalog.

When someone publishes content to the Catalog, they can choose whether or not to grant Read access. If they do grant Read access, you can open the content by selecting the Catalog card, or selecting Open on the card.

If they don't grant Read access, you'll need to request access to the content by selecting Request on the card. See the next section Request access to content published to the catalog for details.

For cards that you have read access to, you can either open the card's underlying content (for example, a story or dataset), or view the card details:

• Select Open to view the underlying content. If the card contains secondary links, for example links to related websites, choose whether to open the main content link (which is shown first) or one of the secondary links.
• Select the card to show the detailed information about the content, such as links to related websites, and any filters that have been applied.

  If you have the appropriate rights, you can select Edit to modify any of the details.

  Note

  Changing the name or description of a catalog card created from a story will also change the name or description of the underlying story.

Select on the card if you want to add it to your favorites. This content can be now viewed and accessed under your Favorites tab if it is enabled.