Creating dashboards in Einstein Analytics is easy and it becomes yet easier with every release. But sometimes you want your users to have even more dynamic controls in the dashboards and this is when you start introducing more advanced functionality like bindings. If you are new to Einstein Analytics or even if you have been ...
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 is still to come – then it can cause a little conflict in your Dashboards when you try to customize it behind the scenes. One thing I ...
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? ...
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 ...
I don’t know how many customers and consultants that have asked: “can I get a dynamic target in my gauge chart?”. I even got the question asked today. My reply is always: “Sorry, this is not possible with standard Salesforce reports and dashboards”. But today I also thought: “I wonder if Wave could support this requirement?”, ...
Earlier I wrote a post about static steps and how they can give the dashboard viewer additional power in exploring data [read the post here]. I showed how to use static steps as a measure, grouping, filter, order and limit. However, all my examples used dimensions or of course measure, they did not use a ...
Sometimes you want to give your end users a little bit more flexibility when viewing Wave dashboards. This could be by allowing them to choose which grouping or measure to use in the graph. Static steps are a way for you to empower this flexibility. First, we need to create a lens we can put on ...
In Wave you can view your data on a world map; this is pretty cool if you want to see how your opportunities or cases are spreading across the world. However, it can quickly become be a lot of details if you work with opportunities or cases in the whole world. With a few tricks, you ...