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3533353 - BW Authorization affects SAC Story behavior of Composites widgets

Symptom

There is a difference in behavior of Standard widgets vs. Composite widgets.

For Standard widgets if a user does not have authorization to access BW query then the relevant widget is not rendered , but the whole story loads. <means the User just does not see the component he/she is not entitled to see.

For SAC story with Composite widgets, if a user does not have authorization to access at least one BW query, then the whole story does not load  

Environment

SAP ANALYTICS CLOUD

Reproducing the Issue

1. Login with a User that has full BW Authorizations

2. Create a Standard story with two widgets - one connected to BW Query A and another to  BW Query B

3. Create similar Composite widgets for  BW Query A and  BW Query B

4. Create a Story with Composite widgets created in step 3

5. Observe the User sees the Standard Story the same way as Composite Story

6. Login with a User that does not have authorization to access Query A

7. User able to open the Standard Story and just does not see the widget with missing authorization

8. The Composite story created in step 4 is not loading at all.

Cause

It was a Product limitation

Resolution

The fix released in the following versions: 2024.21, 2025.01 

Keywords

KBA , LOD-ANA-DES , Story Design & Visualizations , Problem

Product

SAP Analytics Cloud 1.0