Create a New Story

Create a new SAP Analytics Cloud story in a few steps. Use a story to describe your data with charts, tables, text, images, and more.

Context

A story is a document that uses charts, visualizations, images, and other objects to describe and analyze data. You can share your stories with other users and grant permissions for these stories. When you share your stories, users with view permissions can analyze the data by navigating within the stories.

Procedure

From the side navigation, select Stories.

Tip

You can create a story from the Files page by selecting Create Story.

Choose how you want to start your story:

Option	Description
Add a Responsive page	Responsive pages allow you to create layouts that automatically resize and reflow when viewed on different screen sizes. Responsive pages can be added to Digital Boardroom agendas and dashboards.
Add a Canvas page	Use one or more canvas pages to explore and present your data. Lay out charts, tables, geo maps, images, and other objects. Use the Designer panel to format and manipulate the data in your canvas elements.
Add a Grid page	Grid pages allow you to add data to an empty grid, or you can add a table based on an existing model.
From a Smart Discovery	Use Smart Discovery to clearly define the context of the business question you want to ask your data. For more information, see Smart Discovery.
Use Templates	You can apply formatting to your story by using a template, which provides predefined layouts and placeholders for objects to help you build a story. For more information, see Create and Use Story Templates.

For more information on the story pages, see Story Pages.

Note

You can add data at a later stage from the Data view. To switch to this view, select Data in the Story/Data control.

Select to use the classic or optimized design experience.
Continue refining your story, adding pages as necessary.
Add data to your story: from the toolbar, select Data, or on a Canvas page you can select Add Data from the page.
Import data from an Excel or CSV (comma-separated-values) file, a data source, or an existing dataset or model.

For information on adding data, see the following topics:
Save your story.
1. Select a location (for example, a private, public, or workspace folder).
2. Provide a unique name for your story and an optional description.
  
  Note
  Your story name can include valid alphanumeric characters and underscores. Spaces can be included but not at the start or end of a name.

Results

The story is saved in the location you selected. If you saved the story to a public folder, it is visible to all users. If you saved the story 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.

By default the story is opened in view mode. In Files you can also directly open it in edit mode by selecting Open in Story Edit Mode from its (More Actions) menu.