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3517888 - Error "Something went wrong while converting the story to Optimized Design Experience" when converting stories to Optimized Design Experience in SAP Analytics Cloud

Symptom

  • When attempting to convert this classic story to optimized design, the following warning message is displayed:
    • "Something went wrong while converting the story to Optimized Design Experience. Invalid flexible granularity: Date.PATTERN_FISC_CALWEEK".

Environment

SAP Analytics Cloud 2024.15.6

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Log in to the SAC tenant;
  2. Access the story;
  3. From the tool bar select "Convert to Optimized story experience";
  4. Choose "Save" or "Save as" option; 
    >> Notice the error message: "Something went wrong while converting the story to Optimized Design Experience. Invalid flexible granularity: Date.PATTERN_FISC_CALWEEK"

Cause

  • The issue lies in the caching of the conversion mechanism. Some metadata required by conversion mechanism is missing. 
  • If the story contains hidden pages may this KBA can be used as the cause and resolution: KBA 3518474 - Error: "Something went wrong while converting the story to Optimized Design Experience" in SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC)

Resolution

Click on every single tab of the story before converting it. Clicking on every tab forces loading of all required metadata and conversion can complete successfully.

See Also

Keywords

SAC, Story, Convert, Optimized, ODE, Save, Warning, Error, Something went wrong, caching, metadata , KBA , LOD-ANA-DES , Story Design & Visualizations , LOD-ANA-TAB , Table , Problem

Product

SAP Analytics Cloud 1.0