Bookmark Analytic Applications

You can create, view and manage bookmark, which enables you to capture and save the current state of an analytic application.

Bookmark Current State

When viewing an analytic application, you may want to come back to a specific view of the data without having to spend time resetting all the widget states in the application. In this case, you can save the current state as a bookmark via clicking the save button on the application, for example.

In an analytic application, you can bookmark the changes of a widget itself and the display of the data in it, including but not limited to the following:

width and height of all widgets
whether a widget or components in a widget is visible or not
dimensions and measures added to or removed from a chart or table
hierarchy level of the data in a chart or table
sorting, ranking, filtering, drilling of data in a chart or table
show/hide of a grid, header, title, subtitle, unbooked members, total values in a table
items added to or removed from a dropdown, radio button group or checkbox group
selected key in a dropdown, radio button group or checkbox group
hyperlinks set for an image or shape
texts applied to a text widget or text changes in an input field
max value, min value and current value of a slider and range slider

Note

You cannot bookmark translated contents except for the bookmark name.

Note

You cannot bookmark changes you make to the non-primitive type script variables (types other than string, boolean, integer and number).

Note

For any new bookmark versions created after wave 2019.19, the Unrestricted Drilling option in date range for time dimension settings will take effect. However, this won't apply to the old bookmark versions created before this wave.

If you import an analytic application from a .tgz File with the option Drop Objects selected and the analytic application already exists on your system, both the analytic application and its bookmarks are overwritten and its data is updated.

Manage Bookmarks

To manage your bookmarks, select (Analytic Applications) from the side navigation, and in the start page go to the Bookmarks tab. Select a bookmark, and then follow these steps to edit, share and delete a bookmark as needed:

Select (Edit) to change the name and type (Personal or Global) of the bookmark.
Select (Share) to share the personal bookmark with other application users or teams.
For how to modify sharing settings, you can refer to Share Files or Folders.
Note

When you share an analytic application with other users, only global bookmarks will be shared. Personal bookmarks won't be included.
Select (Delete) to delete a bookmark that you no longer need.

To use a valid bookmark, select the bookmark and open it in the view mode.

Note

A bookmark is valid only when its version is consistent with the current version of the bookmark set scripting object. If not, the bookmark is invalid and cannot be opened.

To search for a specific bookmark, enter the bookmark name in the search box. To narrow down the filter scope, choose Valid Bookmarks, Invalid Bookmarks or All Bookmarks from the dropdown list to the left of the search box.

To view all bookmarks of a specific analytic application, go to (Files) to find the application. When you mouse over the application, select (More actions) to the right of it and choose Browse Bookmarks.