Custom value presentation
For characteristics and hierarchies from SAP BW, you can select how to display the characteristic in Spotfire. A characteristic in SAP BW can have many types of metadata, such as attributes and technical names.
In this dialog, you can define a custom value presentation for a SAP BW characteristic or hierarchy. You can combine available technical names and attributes to your liking, and customize the presentation with other characters.
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Available technical names and attributes | Lists all the available attributes and technical names for the characteristic or hierarchy. |
| Name | The name of the attribute or technical name. |
| Identifier | The identifier used to reference the attribute or technical name in the Value presentation expression. |
| Insert | Click to insert the selected attribute or technical
name in the Value presentation expression. Note that you can also quickly insert attributes or technical names in the expression by double-clicking items in the list. |
| Value presentation expression |
The expression
describing the custom value presentation.
You reference attributes and technical names with their respective Identifier string. You can enter other characters in the expression, for example as separators to make the values display the way you want. Example In the example in the
image, we are creating a custom value presentation for a
characteristic with currency information. We want to display the
characteristic with the technical name Key and the attribute The technical
name The expression looks
like this:
The expression results
in a custom value presentation where values in the currency
characteristic are displayed like this:
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