In this exercise, we will create a KPI tile to launch the same Story.
KPIs are used to identify and measure key metrics of a business. The different visualizations of KPI tiles help users quickly evaluate the performance of their business towards a goal, from the Fiori Launchpad itself.
The goal of this exercise will be to create a Numeric tile to display the Number of open purchase order items on the Fiori Launchpad tile and on clicking of the tile, the custom created Story should be launched.
Go to the Analytics Page in Fiori Launchpad. Under KPI Design group, launch the Manage KPIs and Reports application.
A list of Groups will be displayed.
Click on Create.
Enter title for the Group ‘DT_169_XXX Group’.(XXX should be replaced with your group number for eg for place number 25 it is 025)
Click on Save and Activate.
Go to KPIs section and click on Add button.
Enter the title as ‘DT_169_XXX Purchase Order KPI’.(XXX should be replaced with your group number for eg for place number 25 it is 025)
Scroll to the Data Source section and click on Define.
Search for your custom analytical query ‘YY1_PURCHASING_DT169_XXX’.(XXX should be replaced with your group number for eg for place number 25 it is 025)
Select the view, the oData service and Entity set will get automatically populated.
Click on OK.
Click on the Value help for Value Measure and select ‘Number of Open PO Items from..’.
The other fields can remain as they are.
Maintain the Threshold values as shown in the image below.
Click on Save and Activate.
You will be navigated to the Display KPI page.
Go back to the main page of Manage KPIs and Reports.
Switch to the Stories tab and search for your Story ‘DT169-XXX Purchasing Spend Dashboard’.(XXX should be replaced with your group number for eg for place number 25 it is 025)
Click on the row to navigate to your story details page and go to the Applications tab.
Click on Add Tile.
Select Numeric Tile and click on OK.
Change the title and subtitle according to your requirement.
Click on the value help for KPI name and search for the your KPI ‘DT_169_XXX Purchase Order KPI’.(XXX should be replaced with your group number for eg for place number 25 it is 025)
Add Semantic Object as ‘DT169_XXX_KPI’.(XXX should be replaced with your group number for eg for place number 25 it is 025)
Click on Save and Publish.
From the Custom Catalog Extensions application, publish your tile to ‘SAP_MM_BC_PO_MANAGE_PC’ , similar to the steps done in Exercise 2.4.
Repeat the steps in Exercise 2.5 to add the tile in the ‘Purchase Order Processing’ section. For reference: Exercise 2.5 - Accessing the application from Fiori Launchpad
You can now launch your SAC Story from a KPI tile that displays the value of the main measure (that is, the calculated measure Number of Open PO Items from.. created in the custom analytical query) in a Numeric format.
Go to the ‘Open Purchase Orders’ page of your story, and you will see that the Number of Open PO items displayed in your numeric point chart matches the data that was displayed on the Fiori Launchpad tile.
You've now created a custom KPI and used this KPI to create an application to launch embedded analytical story and published it as an application
Continue to - Exercise 5 - Considering Default Values in SAC Stories