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

The following diagram displays the Available Objects panel features in Optimized Design Experience.

Available Objects Panel Legend
Key	Feature Description
1	Closes the Available Objects panel.
2	You can 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 Display Options 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.
3	To search for a particular object, you can use the search bar at the top of the panel.
4	This section contains available accounts () or measures (). This section contains a subsection for account/measure input controls and a subsection for accounts. This section also shows a Calculations subsection if any calculations are added. Tip 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.
5	You can resize the width of the panel by dragging the left edge of the Available Objects panel.
6	This section contains available dimensions. This section contains a subsection for dimension input controls and a subsection for dimensions. This section also shows a Calculated Dimensions subsection if any calculated dimensions are added. In the diagram above, the dimensions section contains the following types of dimensions: – Versions dimension – Date dimension – Generic dimension – Hierarchical dimension Tip 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.