Getting Started with Optimized Story Experience

Use a combination of SAP Analytics Cloud story and SAP Analytics Cloud, analytics designer features to build a story.

Optimized Story Experience Highlights

Optimized Story Experience integrates elements of both story pages and analytics designer scripting capabilities.

Feature	Description	More Information
Assets panel and Outline panel	Quickly build out your dashboard by dragging widgets from the Assets and managing them on the Outline panel.	Create a New Story (Optimized Story Experience) Manage Your Widgets (Optimized Story Experience)
Responsive layout	Use responsive pages and define responsive rules to design stories that can adapt to different screen sizes.	Design Responsive Layout (Optimized Story Experience)
Theming improvements	Creating themes is now more intuitive with widget previews, letting you see the design changes before you commit to them. We’ve also improved the contrast on the default color palettes.	Configure Preferences and Use Themes (Optimized Story Experience)
CSS capabilities	Story developers can define CSS classes for either the whole story or any widget, page or popup, which brings more flexibility and granularity to the styling in the story.	Customize Your Themes Using CSS (Optimized Story Experience)
Linked Widgets Diagram	View and manage widget relationships on Linked Widgets Diagram after creating linked analyses, cascading effects or filter lines in your story, for example.	Work with Linked Widgets Diagram (Optimized Story Experience)
Toolbar updates	The restructured story toolbar better reflects the more commonly-used actions. For example, the View menu now lets you show or hide the Assets/Outline panel, Designer (Builder/Styling) panel, and the filter panel.	Navigate Within Stories (Optimized Story Experience)
View time toolbar customization	Customize the toolbar so that specific quick access functions and submenu functions are displayed to the story viewers.	Customize View Time Toolbar for Your Story (Optimized Story Experience)
Filter panel	Display your story filters in a vertical format. This will make it easier to view hierarchies and to see long lists of members.	Change the Filter Bar Orientation (Optimized Story Experience) Edit Filter Bar Settings (Optimized Story Experience)
Data Change Insights	Enable and subscribe to top N data change insights in the story to keep informed of data changes of specific charts on a regular basis.	Subscribe to and View Data Change Insights Enable Data Change Insights and Use Related APIs
Custom Widget	Use custom widgets, which extend the functionalities of SAP Analytics Cloud and complement the existing set of widgets according to your needs.	Use Custom Widgets (Optimized Story Experience)