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3282996 - Custom current date input control cannot be linked to dynamic date range filter applied to comment widget in SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC)

Symptom

  • Custom current date input control cannot be linked to dynamic date range filter applied to comment widget in SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC)
  • Same custom current date input control could be linked to other dynamic date range filter applied to chart/table

Environment

  • SAP Analytics Cloud, Enterprise Edition 2022.21.11 

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Log on to SAC tenant。
  2. Create a story based on sample model BestRunJuic_SampleModel.
  3. Add one Comment Widget.
  4. In Builder, add filter on Date (Range).
  5. In drop down list of Current Date option, click Create Current Date Input Control.
  6. Enter Name, change Granularity & Date, and then click OK.
    => The new custom current date is selected.
    => The range below it is also shown according to the defined custom current date.
  7. Click OK button.
    => The Date filter doesn't shown the range according to the defined custom current date.
    => The current date input control doesn't shown story filter bar.
    => Click the date filter on the comment widget again and found that Current Date option has been reset back to "System Date / Period."
    => This issue doesn't happen in chart/table.

Cause

  • This is not a support scenario for comment widget as of now

Resolution

  • SAC development team has been working on this as new feature development, which is planned on 2023 H2.
  • Workaround: use current date with story or page filter and comment widget works as expected.

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Keywords

SAP Cloud for Planning, sc4p, c4p, cforp, cloudforplanning, Cloud for Analytics, Cloud4Analytics, CloudforAnalytics, Cloud 4 Planning, BOC, SAPBusinessObjectsCloud, BusinessObjectsCloud, BOBJcloud, BOCloud., SAC, SAP AC, Cloud-Analytics, CloudAnalytics, SAPCloudAnalytics, Date, Current, Today, Now, Custom, System, Dynamic, Filter, Comment, Widget , KBA , LOD-ANA-DES , Story Design & Visualizations , Problem

Product

SAP Analytics Cloud 1.0