If you’ve been following along in our Dr.Nim series, you have already seen Dr. Nim play nice with Apex, as well as seeing Dr. Nim getting struck by Lightning. I’m here to show you how Dr. Nim can even ride the Wave - play in Analytics - become Einstein!
For those that don’t know, Dr. Nim always has a habit of winning, no matter what you do! Sometimes it can feel that way building a dashboard for business users too. This post is going to delve into some of the more syntactical complicated aspects of Einstein Analytics with selection bindings and results binding.
Step 1: Show me the data! In order to build any type of dashboard or lens in Analytics, you have to have a dataset. In this example we use a dummy dataset because we are going to dynamically create rows on the fly within the different steps.
Here is the beginning part of the SAQL query that drives the “Coins” in the video. We load our dummy dataset and generate rows with default values and union them all together in the end. You can find a primer on SAQL here.
Step 2: Static Cling!
Static Steps are those steps in an Analytics Dashboard that are not tied to a dataset. In our example, they are the “turn button” groups.
Step 3: Stuck in a bind. With our coin data step and our static selector steps we are ready to have them join forces and have the static selection from the user bind itself to the coin data.