Create a New Analytic Application

From the side navigation on the home screen, choose

(Analytic Applications). Go to the Applications tab and select Start of the navigation path

Create New Next navigation step

Application End of the navigation path

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When you open the home screen, initially the side navigation is displayed in a collapsed view. To expand the side navigation, select .

Choose whether you want to place the widget on the canvas or in a popup. If you want to place it in a popup, in Layout of Outline, select

(Add Popups).

Choose how you want to visualize your data in your analytic application, such as by chart or by table.

Select Insert (Table) from the toolbar to add a table based on an existing model.
A dialog will pop up that allows you to choose one. You can choose Select an Existing Model or SAP Datasphere Analytical Dataset based on where your data for use is located.

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For tables, you can choose No Model and add a data source later. The table will be displayed empty.

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Once you have chosen an existing model, it will be used as primary default model whenever you add a table or chart to the analytic application. You can change this data source by selecting (Change primary model) in the Builder panel.
Select Insert (Chart) from the toolbar to add a chart based on an existing model.

You can add more widgets, such as a container, dropdown, filter line, image, text and button, via  in the Insert menu.

The widgets will be added to the canvas and displayed in Outline with its default ID.

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You can move a widget up and down via dragging and dropping in the Outline panel. The widget listed higher will take precedence over the below ones on the canvas or the same popup.

(optional) You can change the default widget name and adjust it to your needs by double clicking the widget in the Outline panel or via its Styling panel.

The widget name's used in scripting.

(optional) You can change the styling of a widget in the Styling panel. To open the panel, select

(Edit Styling) from its

(More Actions) menu or select the widget and then Designer in the upper-right corner of the analytic application.

Add scripts to your widgets to implement custom-specific behavior in addition to basic user interaction at runtime:

In the Outline panel hover over a widget.
Select and then one of the supported events.

A new tab is automatically opened as the script editor, where you can write scripts for the widget.

You can also trigger scripting by selecting (Edit Scripts) in the (More Actions) menu of the widget.
Close the tab by selecting at the right of the tab name.

Select

(Save) to save your analytic application.

Select a location (for example, private, public, or workspace folder).
Provide a unique name for your analytic application and an optional description.

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Your analytic application name can include valid alphanumeric characters and underscores. Spaces can be included but not at the start or end of a name.

The analytic application will be saved in the location you selected. If you saved the analytic application to a public folder, it is visible to all users. If you saved the analytic application to a private folder, only you can see and edit it until you share it with other users. For more information, see Share Files or Folders.

Select Run Analytic Application in the upper right corner.

After creating the analytic application, you can run it to check how your scripts work for application users, for example.

The application will open in another web browser tab.

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You have to save any changes to your application first before seeing the latest version at runtime.

Create a New Analytic Application

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