Note: it is now possible to bind to columnMap, check out more in this blog. You can still set columnMap to null as described in this blog. With Salesforce’s Spring 18 release they introduced a new parameter in the Dashboard JSON called columnMap. While Salesforce has good reasons to introduce this – more on this ...
Lately, I have had a lot of discussions with different organizations on how to get most out of Einstein Analytics. I mean a report is a report and a dashboard is a dashboard or is it? Why should you use Einstein Analytics and are you getting the most out of it? To address the first ...
People that know me… and maybe read my blog… would know that I work a lot with Pardot and Einstein Analytics. So the joined solution is definitely interesting. I’ve been looking into this project since it was launched and this month I attended the Pardot Partner Summit, where this solution was discussed. I am very ...
The past few months I’ve been wondering if it’s time to upgrade my MacBook Air from 2010 and I’m leaning towards a “yes”. So in the holiday break, I’ve been trying to organize and backup my documents and pictures. In the process, I found some training material from my very first Einstein Analytics (back then ...
As most of you know I am a fan of Einstein Analytics’ compare tables, which is why this is not the first blog on the topic. In all honesty they really are powerful as you do not need to know SAQL or touch JSON in order to utilize their power; there are even out of ...
A lot of us love the donut chart in Einstein Analytics; it’s almost a pie chart but not really. The good thing about the donut chart is that it automatically shows the total in the middle, which for many is quite useful! But what about when your measure is an average and not a sum? ...
I love when my clients inspire me to write blogs. I mean they have real challenges and questions that other companies might very well also have, so why not write down the solutions for more people’s benefit. This time I was asked, “how do I compare year to date (YTD) with the same period last ...
In April I did a blog on how to use date fields in static steps showing how to create filters and groupings [read the blog post]. Though the blog is still relevant I had several people comment that it didn’t work. I did a little debugging and it turns out that Einstein Analytics is a ...
Do you have dashboards that are not tied to a specific timeframe? Or is your imports to Einstein Analytics not done on a daily basis? How do your users know what time period they are looking at data from? Well, I have a way for you to easily portray this to your users using two ...
When you start with Einstein Analytics the first time is spent learning how lenses and dashboards work and how to explore your data further maybe even how to get your data sets into Einstein Analytics. But there are more to the tool than just pretty graphs that facet with each other. Soon you will get ...