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3165109 - Failed to open member selector dialog error when setting filters in chart in SAP Analytics Cloud

Symptom

  • Failed to open member selector dialog when selecting values in chart filters, input controls or story filters in SAP Analytics Cloud(SAC)
  • It works when setting table filters
  • The issue happens on some specific HANA Live models
  • In the console log, the error below shows:
    app.chunk.2404.20e146d2f72b02862f1d.js:2 2022-02-24 11:06:29.061800 Error Creating DataProvider - No valid info to create FilterSelector sap.fpa.ui.story.filter.InteractiveFilterItemFactory
    app.chunk.2404.20e146d2f72b02862f1d.js:2 2022-02-24 11:09:39.957699 No valid info to create FilterSelector - view:[XXXX][XXXX][XXXXXXXX:db.XXXXXXXCalculationViews::XXXXXXXXX] sap.fpa.ui.story.chartbuilder.chartBuilder.controller
 
 

Environment

  • SAP Analytics Cloud 2022

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Set a filter on a chart based on a HANA Live model.
  2. Try to open member selector dialog.
  3. Error "Failed to open member selector dialog" occurrs/

Cause

  • There is an additional colon in the HANA Calculation View name.
  • The colon characters are delimiters in SAC and are treated in a special way to parse the dataset ID. Thus having extra colon characters will threw off the detection mechanism. 

Resolution

Remove the colon from the HANA Calculation View name.

Keywords

KBA , LOD-ANA-DES-COR , SAC Core story functionality - widgets, geo, design, etc , Problem

Product

SAP Analytics Cloud 1.0