Available Objects Panel in Optimized Design Experience

The Available Objects panel displays objects you can add to your chart in SAP Analytics Cloud's Optimized Design Experience.

The Available Objects panel allows you to see all measures, calculations, input controls, and dimensions of your data source. This panel provides an overview of all available objects to help you explore and decide on the objects you want to add to your chart.

Note

Currently, the Available Objects panel can only be used for charts.

Opening the Available Objects Panel

You can access the Available Objects panel in one of the following ways:

  • From the Builder panel, select Available Objects.

  • After choosing Add Measure or Add Dimension, select Open Available Objects.

Using the Available Objects Panel

You can easily add objects from the Available Objects panel to the Builder panel using drag-and-drop or the (quick action) menu. You can rename your object through its quick action menu.

You can also use the Available Objects panel to create measure input controls or dimension input controls.

To search for a particular object, you can use the search bar at the top of the panel.

You can also choose whether you want the Description, ID, or ID and Description to be displayed for all objects in your Available Objects panel. To configure this, you can select Start of the navigation path Next navigation step  Display OptionsEnd of the navigation path at the top of the panel.

Note

In the Builder panel, your added objects will show the description of the object in the chart by default.

You can resize the width of the panel as well.