About Advanced Mode (Optimized Story Experience)

In Optimized Story Experience, if you’re a story developer, who is assigned to the Application Creator role, you can now turn on or off Advanced Mode as you like to have different views for building your story. Advanced Mode lets you add custom logic to your story with more widgets, functionalities and scripting capabilities.

Advanced Mode in Optimized Story Experience integrates features from SAP Analytics Cloud, analytics designer, where you can create customized interactions and add custom logic with a variety of widgets, functionalities and scripting capabilities.

Note

To use Advanced Mode, make sure that you've been assigned to the role Application Creator.

To switch on Advanced Mode, from View section in the toolbar, choose (Advanced Mode). To switch back, do in the same way. You're notified both when entering and exiting Advanced Mode.

In Advanced Mode, you can have the following additions, rather than creating your story in a self-service workflow with laid-out widgets and configured functionalities:

Widgets to which scripts can be assigned:
- Button
- Filters and controls: Checkbox Group, Dropdown, Filter Line, List Box, Radio Button Group, Range Slider, Slider, Switch
- Text inputs: Input Field, Text Area
- Containers: Flow Layout Panel, Page Book, Tab Strip
Popup

For more information, see Create Popups or Dialogs (Optimized Story Experience).
Scripting related elements and tools, such as:
- Script variable
- Script object
- Technical objects
- Script editor and APIs
- Info Panel
For more information, see Scripting (Optimized Story Experience and Analytics Designer).
Performance optimization tool, including best practices reference and script performance popup

For more information about script performance popup, see View Script Performance in a Popup.
CSS editor

For more information, see Customize Your Themes Using CSS (Optimized Story Experience).
Global settings, including global CSS class, loading indicator, schedule publication and save planning data reminder

For more information about loading indicator settings, see Define Busy Indicators and Use Related APIs.
Additional sandbox restrictions settings for Web Page, including allow-downloads and allow-popups
Enable mobile support for canvas pages in Story Details
View time visibility settings for widgets
Always initialize on startup for widgets

For more information, see Initialize Widgets on Startup (Optimized Story Experience).
Data refresh settings for charts and tables

For more information, see Use Pause Refresh Options and APIs.