It’s time for the fifth part of this Demystifying Bindings blog series and this binding type is one of the advanced possibilities in Einstein Analytics, I am talking about nested bindings. I am sure they are many variations of use cases where nested bindings are needed but in this blog, I will focus on using ...
In this blog series, we have already covered a lot of ground looking at the anatomy of a binding and the different data serialization functions available. So it’s time to look at some practical examples. A lot of people including myself find date bindings to be a little difficult as there are so many different ...
It’s time for more SAQL bindings in this third part of demystifying bindings. In the first part of this series, we looked at the anatomy of a binding and the second part looked at how to use bindings for filters in a SAQL query, however, there are more parts to a SAQL query, so we will be looking ...
In the first part of this blog series, we covered the anatomy of a binding by looking at each component. Now, to be honest, most bindings you will write, at least in the beginning, will be using the data serialization functions .asString() and .asObject(), as they cover the most common use cases and is all you need ...
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 ...
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 ...
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? ...
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 ...
The Summer17 Release of Salesforce Wave has given us some enhanced bindings as mentioned in my blog on the new release. I know, I will be enjoying this enhancement a lot. So I thought why not share how you could use the enhanced binding to filter dashboards based on the logged in user. I have created ...