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2615387 - Fiscal year/period description cannot be changed in SAP Analytics Cloud

Symptom

It is not possible to change the description of a Fiscal year/period in SAP Analytics Cloud.

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Environment

SAP Analytics Cloud 

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Logon to SAC.
  2. Create a model and enable "Fiscal year" option.
  3. Create a Story based on the previously created model.
  4. Notice that only the "P" numbers appear for the Fiscal Year instead of the name of the months.
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Cause

This is a by design behavior.

Resolution

The feature is currently evaluated by development and product management.

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WORKAROUND

  • You can change the "Display as" option to "ID" instead of "Description" for the particular Fiscal year Time dimension. 
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  • In this case you will be able to see the exact months in numeric format instead of "P" numbers.
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See Also

 

Keywords

Cloud for Analytics, Cloud4Analytics, CloudforAnalytics, Cloud 4 Planning, BOC, SAPBusinessObjectsCloud, BusinessObjectsCloud, BOBJcloud, BOCloud., SAC, SAP AC, Cloud-Analytics, CloudAnalytics, SAPCloudAnalytics, Fiscal year, period, label, ID, Show, Display, Time, Dimension, Month , KBA , LOD-ANA , SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) , LOD-ANA-BI , Business Intelligence Functionality, Analytic Models , LOD-ANA-PL , Planning , LOD-ANA-BR , SAC Boardroom , LOD-ANA-PR , SAC Predictive , Problem

Product

SAP Analytics Cloud 1.0