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2789371 - How to show/hide Dynamic Reference Line automatically according to applied filters in SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC)

Symptom

How to show/hide Dynamic Reference Line automatically according to applied filters in SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC)

Environment

  • SAP Analytics Cloud

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Log on to SAC tenant.
  2. Create a story with Bar/Column chart on sample model [BestRunJuice_SampleModel].
  3. Select [Grass Margin] into Measures and [Product] into Dimensions.
  4. From action menu, select Add Reference Line.
  5. Choose Dynamic and then select [Gross Margin] as Measure.
    => One reference line will be added into the chart.
  6. Apply one filter (story filter or page filter or chart filter or filter by linked analysis) on another dimension like [Sales Manager] to the chart.
    => Check or uncheck values from the filter, but the reference line still appears in the chart.
    => How to show/hide Dynamic Reference Line automatically according to applied filters?
         for example, only showing the reference line when filtering with [Janet Bury] for [Sales Manager].

Resolution

Edit the reference line to add one Reference Line Filters on same dimension (i.e., [Sales Manager] = [Janet Bury]).

In this case, once the same filter (same dimension & same value including larger range or list) is applied to the chart, the reference will be shown. Otherwise, it will be hided.

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Keywords

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Product

SAP Analytics Cloud 1.0