Several have asked me “how do we do the dynamic gauge post Summer18 release?”. Why? Well, when the gauge chart was released I wrote a blog on how to make the ranges dynamic; a great use case for actual vs. quota. On top of that, it was often a question I got when I worked with ...
You might have heard of ‘XMD’ working with Einstein Analytics. But do you know what it is? First of all, XMD stands for ‘Extended Metadata’ and it a set of instructions that defines how a user visually see your dataset. Meaning once you apply these instructions every lens or dashboard leveraging this dataset will see ...
So who doesn’t love conditional formatting? Amazing how such a “simple” feature can generate so much excitement. Summer 18 has been out for a few weeks now, so I assume as an Einstein Analytics user you have already played around with the functionality. Of course, it’s great that you can modify the colors in all your ...
Note! From Summer 19 filter logic is available without SAQL Filters are a great way to segment your data to get valuable insights, since having too broad a view do not help you understand the details of what is going on in your business. Einstein Analytics makes it easy for you to drill in and ...
A few releases ago Einstein Analytics introduced pages as a beta feature, however, in Summer 18 this will be generally available. This also means that we will be able to have up to 20 pages on a dashboard, where we during the beta period only had 5. You may be wondering why should you use ...
When building dashboard we tend to talk about data, metrics, and design, which I will say is key! But I am not afraid to admit that I have a couple of time started building dashboards and realized that when it came to testing out the dashboard with real data, well, it needed a few adjustments to ...
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 ...