SAP Analytics Cloud uses a subset of JavaScript for scripting within its Analytic Applications feature. This allows developers to create highly interactive and customized dashboards by defining the behavior of widgets, responding to user events (like clicks), and manipulating data sources dynamically. The scripting editor within the Analytic Application designer provides tools like code completion and syntax checking based on this JavaScript-derived language to enhance developer productivity.

A. Python: Python integration in SAP Analytics Cloud is primarily for running predictive scenarios and certain data preparation tasks, not for front-end UI scripting in stories.

B. Wrangling Expression Language: This language is used exclusively within the data preparation (wrangling) phase in the Modeler to define data transformation formulas.

C. ABAP: ABAP is the proprietary backend programming language for SAP's on-premise and cloud ERP systems (e.g., S/4HANA), not for the SAP Analytics Cloud front-end.

1. SAP Help Portal

SAP Analytics Cloud

Analytic Application Designer

"Scripting": "The script language that you use in the analytic application designer is a subset of JavaScript. The language is typed

which means that the system checks at design time whether an API call is valid for a specific object." This document explicitly identifies the language used.

2. SAP Help Portal

SAP Analytics Cloud

Analytic Application Designer

API Reference

"Introduction": The API reference guide details the objects

methods

and properties available for scripting. The syntax and structure presented (e.g.

Chart1.setVisible(false);

var selections = Table1.getSelections();) are fundamentally based on JavaScript conventions.

3. SAP Community Wiki

"Analytic Applications in SAP Analytics Cloud": "Analytic Applications are built using a JavaScript-based scripting language that allows for full control over the application's behavior and user interface." This resource confirms the use of JavaScript for creating these applications.