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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 (Enterprise) 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 
  5. Notice the warning 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. 

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, SAP Analytics Cloud, Story, Convert, Optimized, ODE, Save, Warning, Error, "Something went wrong". , KBA , LOD-ANA-DES , Story Design & Visualizations , LOD-ANA-TAB , Table , Problem

Product

SAP Analytics Cloud 1.0