Enablement Material for SAP Analytics Cloud Calendar

This blog post collects enablement material to get you familiar with SAP Analyics Cloud’s calendar and its planning process orchestration capabilities! The collected content serves as an overarching entry point for educational purposes. Note, this blog post will be updated on a regular basis with latest material!

Scenarios & Use Cases

• ABC computer example (focus on business workflows)
• How to model an End to End planning process
• An Analytics Designer Integration in the context of HR planning

Feature Deep Dives

• Dependencies to organize your planning period!
• Integration of Data Locking into planning process
• Automatically create planning process via Wizard
• Analytics Designer Integration
• Multi-Level-Workflows, Multi-Level-Approval

Miscellaneous

• New Task Types & Best Practices
• Tips & Tricks #1 (multiple review rounds, delegate/substitute users, styles, refresh content)
• Tips & Tricks #2 (reopen closed tasks, conversion of process to task and vice versa, adjust due date via gantt view)

Webinars & Videos

• Planning Process Management with the SAP Analytics Cloud Calendar (registration required)
• Streamline your Planning Process via Analytics Designer

openSAP courses

• Planning with SAP Analytics Cloud (Week 3, Unit 1: Planning Calendar)
• Planning with SAP Analytics Cloud – Advanced Topics (Week 3 – Managing the Planning Process)

Interactive Tutorials

• Click-Through Tutorial (Create various task types)
• Click-Through Tutorial (Wizard & Bulk Edit)

Calendar product updates

• Road Map Explorer (registration required)
• 2022
  • QRC3
    • Multi-select of calendar events
    • Reopen data locking tasks
  • QRC2
    • Calendar dependencies
    • creation of events via wizard based on an existing process
  •  QRC1
    • Calendar notification enhancements (process)
    • Handling of many people (calendar designer panel)
• 2021
  • QRC4
    • Wizard enhancements
    • Set monthly recurring calendar events
    • Improvements w.r.t. declining events
    • Schedule Multi Actions via calendar
    • Add automatic calendar tasks to Parent Process
  • QRC3
    • Reopen closed calendar events
    • Addint Teams to calendar events
    • Recurrence based on minutes

Documentation

• Overall Help
• How to create and work with calendar tasks
• Calendar Event statuses
• Email Notifications
• Analytics Designer API Documentation