Enable Optimized Story Experience

The optimized story experience enables content within an SAP Analytics Cloud story to load faster.

Note

Before using the optimized story experience with SAP BW, please verify that you have applied the applicable upgrades and patches. For more information, see Backwards Compatibility Guidance for Using Optimized Story Experience with SAP BW.

There are two ways to enable the optimized design experience:

With either approach you can use the classic view mode or enable the optimized view mode. (See How to Enable the Optimized View Mode.)

How to Enable Optimized Design Experience – Convert an Existing Story

Note

The conversion to the Optimized Design Experience is permanent and any unsupported features will be permanently lost.

You have two options for converting your story to the optimized design experience:

  • Convert: converts the story to use the optimized design experience.

    Allows you to continue to use the same story ID.

  • Convert + Save As: Clones your story and then converts the cloned version.

    Your original story keeps its story ID and the cloned vesion has a new story ID.

  1. In SAP Analytics Cloud, open an existing story.

  2. Switch to Edit mode.

  3. From the File menu, select Start of the navigation pathSave Next navigation step Convert to Optimized Design ExperienceEnd of the navigation path.

    Note

    The dialog that appears shows the features that will be permanently lost (unsupported or deprecated features) or the blocking features that will prevent you from converting your story.

  4. Choose the conversion option.

    Convert Convert + Save As
    • A message appears notifying you that the story is being converted.

    • After conversion is successful, a message appears and the design experience story starts to load.

    Note

    If your story has a recurring publication scheduled before the conversion, when you view or edit this publication in Calendar after the conversion, the file settings and story view selection are still from Classic View Mode. Therefore, we recommend deleting the scheduled publication and rescheduling one after the conversion.

    1. Provide a name for your optimized story, or accept the default suggested name.

    2. Select OK.

    The story is cloned, and a message appears when the cloned story is converted.

How to Enable Optimized Design Experience – Create a New Story

  1. From the SAP Analytics Cloud Home screen, select Stories.

  2. Select either a Responsive or Canvas page.

  3. In the Select Design Mode Type dialog, select Optimized Design Experience, and then click Create.

The Optimized Design Experience dashboard opens, and you can start adding visualizations.

How to Enable Optimized View Mode

Remember

Optimized view mode is not enabled by default, and you need to go into each story separately to enable this view mode.

  1. In SAP Analytics Cloud, open an existing story.

  2. Switch to Edit mode.

  3. From the File menu, do one of the following actions.

    • Use the Save menu: select Start of the navigation path(Save) Next navigation step Enable Optimized View ModeEnd of the navigation path.

    • Use the Story Details:
      1. Select Start of the navigation path(Edit Story) Next navigation step Story DetailsEnd of the navigation path.

      2. In the View Time Optimization section, select Enable optimized mode.

      3. To save your changes, select Save.

  4. To save your story, from the file menu select Start of the navigation path (Save) Next navigation step SaveEnd of the navigation path.

You'll see a dialog notifying you that the story is being optimized. If the optimization is successful, you are notified that the story has been saved.

However, if the story can't be optimized, or if some items can't be included, a warning message is displayed explaining the details. Review the details in the warning and, if possible, resolve the issues.

Note

After you enable or disable Optimized View Mode for a story that’s already been scheduled for a recurring publication, in Calendar the file settings and story view selection for this publication are still from the previous mode. In such cases, we recommend deleting the scheduled publication and rescheduling one after the conversion.