Create Popups and Dialogs

As an application designer, you can use popups and dialogs to design interactive analytic applications and dashboards.

Context

A popup helps application users quickly enter information, perform configurations or make selections. You can also use it to display more specific data for a selected item displayed on the canvas of the application. Because the popup acts as a container, you can put any other widgets into it, such as table, button, or checkbox.

You can also turn the popup into a dialog, which has the look and feel consistent with other dialogs in SAP Analytics Cloud.

Procedure

  1. In the Outline panel, select right to Popups to create a new popup.

    You can see that an empty popup opens with the default name Popup_1.

  2. If you want to turn the popup into a dialog, in the Builder panel of the popup, select Enable header & footer. Otherwise, skip to step 5.
  3. Optional: You can change the title and configure buttons for the dialog.
  4. Select Apply.
  5. Add widgets to the popup or dialog, such as dropdown boxes, tables or charts.

    For dialogs, you can only add widgets to areas other than the header and footer.

    Note

    If no widgets are added, even if you save the analytic application with the empty popup or dialog, application users won't see it when triggering it at application runtime.

  6. Edit the styling of the popup in the Styling panel. For example, you can change its height and width.
  7. In the Outline panel select to the right of the popup or a widget in the popup to add scripts to it.
    The script editor opens in a new tab.
  8. To return to the popup itself or canvas, select in the tab and choose your popup or canvas.
  9. To delete the popup, choose next to it in the Outline panel and then (Delete).
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