Are you a new Salesforce Wave developer, or an intermediate user who wants to learn more? Do you love the rich visualizations of the Wave platform, but sometimes struggle to get your data represented just the way you want it? Need help handling time series data and showing changes through time? Join us to learn how to use custom SAQL and XMD to supercharge your dashboards with Wave.

1. Amplifying Wave - Tips & Tricks
Shaki Krishnamoorthy
Manager GS/BI Architect
skrishnamoorthy@appirio.com
@shakimoorthy
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​ Dave Dixon
​ BI Architect
​ ddixon@appirio.com
​ @DoubleDeltaOK
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2. Introductions
Shaki Krishnamoorthy David Dixon

3. ❖ Experience the power of Wave
❖ Learn
❖ Have fun
Goals for today’s session

4. ● What does J.S.O.N. stand for
● How we use it
● Tools to use to modify JSON
➢ Chrome JSON Editor
➢ Sublime
➢ Notepad++
Metadata JSON Overview
“Schema” of Dashboard

5. Scenarios:
➢ Need to change display name
➢ Want to format measure to 2 decimal points
➢ Hide dimensions
➢ Access external links from dashboard
Make your widgets shine
Using “XMD” - Extended Metadata

6. Scenarios:
● Too many similar charts
● Switch between bottom and top 10 in a
widget
● Switch between different dimensions in
single widget
Dynamically changing Dimensions
Using Toggling & Static Step

7. ● What is SAQL/PigQL?
● Why use it ?
● Viewing lens PigQL
PigQL And Custom SAQL

8. • Displaying Month over Month
values with a single column
• Displaying bucketed measures
in a single chart widget
Custom SAQL - Scenarios

9. Community and Blogs
● Salesforce Community
http://www.salesforce.com/analytics-cloud/
resources/
● Salesforce University & Training Videos
• Green belt training
• Brown belt training
● JSON Reference Guide
https://resources.docs.salesforce.com/sfdc/pdf/
bi_dev_guide_json.pdf
● Appirio Blog
http://appirio.com/insights/blogs/
Resources on Analytics Cloud
www.appirio.com

10. Knowledge is having the right answer.
Intelligence is asking the right question

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12. Thank you
Shaki Krishnamoorthy
Manager GS/BI Architect
skrishnamoorthy@appirio.com
@shakimoorthy
​
​ Dave Dixon
​ BI Architect
​ ddixon@appirio.com
​ @DoubleDeltaOK​ http://appirio.com/insights/blogs/