Working with stories

In this section you will find how to work with stories. For instance, you can understand how to create, duplicate and change settings for a story.

Creating new stories

Do the following:

1. Click to view the stories, from the app overview or sheet view.

2. Click or Create new story.

   A new story is created, with the title My new story.

3. Give your story a meaningful title and add a description, if you want.
4. Click outside the text area to save the title and description.

The new story is saved.

Editing stories

When you load data into an app you analyze the data to get new insights. You can present your new insights in a new story or in a edited version of an existing story. For more information, see Loading and managing data with Data Manager and Loading and transforming data with scripting.

A snapshot's state and selections will not be updated at a data reload. It will always reflect the data that existed at the point in time the snapshot was taken. However, live data sheets are not static and will be affected by a data reload.

You can replace a snapshot of a visualization on a slide by going to its source, in the app. The visualization will now have updated data. You can take a new snapshot to use in your story.

When you take a snapshot you can make an annotation for your snapshot. The annotation helps you distinguish between the different snapshots in the snapshot library when you build your story. The annotation is not visible when you play the story.

Changing the titles and descriptions of stories

You can change the title and description of your stories.

Note the following:

• To change the name or description of a story, the app must be in your personal cloud or group workspace.

Do the following:

1. In the app overview, click  Stories.
2. Do one of the following:
   • If you are in grid view, , click the story title followed by clicking .
   • If you are in list view, , click .
3. Edit Title and Description.
4. Click outside the text area.

The changes you made are saved.

Changing the thumbnails of stories

You can replace the default thumbnail of a story with another thumbnail, to make it easier to distinguish between stories in the app overview and in the story navigator. You can use one of the default images, or an image of your own.

The image you selected is now used as a thumbnail for the story, and is visible in the story navigator and in the app overview.

The following formats are supported: .png, .jpg, .jpeg, and .gif. You can upload images to the In app folder in the media library.

Duplicating stories

You can duplicate any story, regardless of whether it belongs to the app or if you created it yourself. The purpose of duplicating stories is to save time by reusing content, and to modify the duplicate to fit your needs.

A duplicated story contains the same content as the original story, and is linked to the same snapshots. The duplicated story will not be updated if the original story is updated. Duplicated stories appear under My stories in app overview and in the story navigator.

Duplicating a story from app overview

Do the following:

1. Click on the left-hand side to show the stories of the app.

2. Right-click a story.

   The shortcut menu opens.

3. Click Duplicate.

The new story is created. It is located under My stories.

Deleting stories

Do the following:

1. Click to view the stories, from the app overview.

2. Right-click the story you want to delete.

   The shortcut menu opens.

3. Click Delete.

4. Click Delete, to confirm that you want to delete the story.

The story is deleted from the app.