SACS31 : SAP Analytics Cloud: Advanced Story Design — Lesson 3: Linked Analysis, Scripting, Bookmarks, and Navigation

Learning Objectives

• Explain how Linked Analysis, Scripting, Bookmarks, and Navigation supports effective advanced analytics stories.
• Complete the workflow and produce a reviewable advanced interaction and navigation workbook.
• Evaluate the condition where a script applies a filter to the wrong data source after a bookmark is restored and select a supported response.

Detailed Topics

• linked analysis: business purpose, responsible roles, and SAP objects that establish the operating scope.
• optimized story scripting: configuration choices, master-data dependencies, and determination logic shaping the result.
• bookmarks: transaction flow, status behavior, integration effects, and reviewable operational evidence.
• guided navigation: control points, exception paths, testing needs, and release criteria protecting the outcome.

Instructor Demonstration

The guided walkthrough connects linked analysis, optimized story scripting, bookmarks, guided navigation to the intended business outcome and control evidence. Learners see the expected SAP behavior, what belongs in advanced interaction and navigation workbook, and how to respond when a script applies a filter to the wrong data source after a bookmark is restored.

Hands-On Exercise

Complete a controlled activity covering linked analysis, optimized story scripting, bookmarks, guided navigation and preserve the result in advanced interaction and navigation workbook.

1. Define the expected business outcome and the SAP objects that should produce it.
2. Perform the lesson scenario, retaining before-and-after evidence for every material decision.
3. Test the exception without altering unrelated settings or data, then explain the first failure point.
4. Apply proportionate remediation and complete a focused regression check before approval.

Scenario Analysis

• Which SAP object, rule, record, or process step most strongly influences Linked Analysis, Scripting, Bookmarks, and Navigation?
• What evidence separates configuration, data, authorization, integration, and timing causes in this scenario?
• How should the advanced interaction and navigation workbook be approved, retained, monitored, and updated after handover?

Troubleshooting Guidance

Start at the earliest point where expected behavior differs from the observed result. Review process sequence, relevant data, configuration, authorization, integration, and timing as separate hypotheses. Treat “a script applies a filter to the wrong data source after a bookmark is restored” as unconfirmed until settings, documents, logs, reports, and focused retesting support the cause.

Validation Checklist

• Required roles, structures, data, settings, and dependencies for Linked Analysis, Scripting, Bookmarks, and Navigation are present.
• The advanced interaction and navigation workbook links each conclusion to objective and reviewable SAP evidence.
• Normal processing, the stated exception, integration behavior, and access boundaries were tested.
• Corrections, retest criteria, ownership, monitoring, documentation, and operational handover are complete.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can apply Linked Analysis, Scripting, Bookmarks, and Navigation, explain the resulting SAP behavior, and defend the outcome through advanced interaction and navigation workbook.