Category: SAS

SAS Portal and BI Dashboard: Customizing the Tabs

You can customize the SAS Portal and SAS BI Dashboard Web Browser titles in just a few moments. Here’s another branding trick that Kushal Ramani sent to me.  He also sent some these branding tricks for Web Report Studio and SAS Portal.  For this example, you are updating the tab associated with the tool.  I used the word “Fancy” in all of these so I could easily see the changes. Updating the JSP Files Note: I’m using JBoss installed on a Windows7 server with my SAS BI 9.3 installation. All of my paths are based on that environment.  Contact SAS Technical Support if you need help locating the files associated with other environments. To make changes to the browser tab, you need to update the associated JavaServer Pages (JSP) files that are found in the JBoss directory.  For this example, let’s change the SAS BI Dashboard tab.  We will change the one that appears when the BI Dashboard appears and not the one use when you are editing the dashboard.  If you do not have access to the server, you may need to enlist your SAS Administrator’s help.  Also – this does change it for everyone.    Stop the Web […]

Adding pop-up graphs to your SAS/GRAPHs

By now, most of you probably already know how to add drill downs and hover text to your SAS graphs.  But did you know you can add pop-up images and graphs? Here are a couple of examples … In this first example, when you hover your mouse over each s…

NOTE: Prompts, Beyond the Basics With Enterprise Guide

There’s an enormous number of capabilities in Enterprise Guide (EG). I’m not just referring to the wide range of tasks for data manipulation and data analysis, nor the fact that you can type your SAS code or you can drag and drop tasks to make a flow d…

SAS Custom Tasks: Wrap your variable names appropriately

The following is an excerpt from my forthcoming book: Creating Custom Tasks for SAS Enterprise Guide using Microsoft .NET. If your custom task generates a SAS program, the chances are pretty high that your program will reference one or more variables within a SAS data set. Despite our best efforts, […]

Example 10.3: Enhanced scatterplot with marginal histograms

Back in example 8.41 we showed how to make a graphic combining a scatterplot with histograms of each variable. A commenter suggested we change the R graphic to allow post-hoc plotting of, for example, lowess lines. In addition, there are further refi…

Behind the scenes: Statistical Business Analysis certification exam

Ever wonder how the SAS Global Certification team comes up with a new exam?  Well I’m about to take you behind the scenes of our latest certification – SAS Certified Statistical Business Analyst Using SAS 9: Regression and Modeling Credential. Wit…

Statistical Notes (5): Confidence Intervals for Difference Between Independent Binomial Proportions Using SAS

A guy notices a bunch of targets scattered over a barn wall, and in the center of each, in the "bulls-eye," is a bullet hole. "Wow," he says to the farmer, "that’s pretty good shooting. How’d you do it?" "Oh," says the farmer, "it was easy. I painted the targets after I shot the holes." […]