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 ...
Einstein Analytics is a powerful tool but as you might have noticed it doesn’t work like standard reporting. Because of the unique way data is stored in form of inverted indexing you can change data on the fly. So unlike other tools, including Salesforce standard report builder, you can in Einstein Analytics allow the user ...
Creating a dashboard is easy, but making it meaningful is much harder. This applies to any dashboard not just Einstein Analytics. Think about it, how many times have you looked at a dashboard you didn’t create yourself and ended up spending several minutes decoding what you were looking at? Is the pipeline for this month ...
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 ...
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 ...
If you like me have been building dashboard in Wave for awhile, then you probably would agree that best practice is limiting the usage of multiple datasets. One of the main reasons for this is that the natural faceting that makes widgets interact with each other will stop working. Traditionally you would have to add ...