If you aren’t paying close attention to the messages in Web Report Studio, you may run into some puzzling issues. The messages that SAS produces may not be obvious enough if you are expecting a different behavior, thus making troubleshooting a bit difficult. Gotcha 1: Why Won’t My Changes Save? This reminder comes from Shri Sastry. She had asked a co-worker to make a simple change to a Web Report Studio and she noticed the change still was not made days later. Shri inquired and the co-worker told her she had made the change several times but the application would not save the changes. This sounded odd and frustrating! She observed the change being made and this is how the Gotcha was discovered! When using an application like MS Excel or MS Word, when you exit the application a sanity check window appears asking if you want to keep the changes. However, the Web Report Studio sanity check explains you are discarding the changes. So – read closely or fail victim to the GOTCHA! To save the changes to the report, use the File > Save menu choice or click the Save icon. Gotcha 2: Why Can’t I Create or Remove […]
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You’ve taken a SAS class – now what?
Have you ever taken a SAS class, but left wanting more? There’s a place to continue learning outside the classroom. You may remember hearing about Extended Learning pages while in class or while reading your post-course thank-you email. That email …
Performance-enhancing SAS notes
With the London 2012 Olympics around the corner, there are sure to be reports or rumors of performance-enhancing drug use among some athletes. It turns out that using manufactured chemicals to give yourself an edge is frowned upon in the athletic community. However, as a SAS user you should avail […]
Is There Any Better Way? Publishing Process For CDISC Standards
1. The Pain I read from Lex Jansen (@LexJansen) that CDISC SDTM v1.3 and SDTMIG v3.1.3 were newly released. It’s pretty nice since CDISC SDTM was supposed to be released semiannually in the new publishing cycle. We can see the team put great efforts on this new version, but frankly speaking, this delivery (the […]
Behind the scenes with SAS Visual Analytics
If you’ve heard anything from SAS in recent months, then you’ve heard about high-performance analytics and the new SAS Visual Analytics offering. SAS has taken the high-performance analytics message around the world in a series of recent “road shows”. From the start, this project has enjoyed a different development process […]
SAS User Groups: Inspiring Visit to SAS UK Professional Conference
Each conference I attend, I walk away with a dozen ideas for the blog posts, SAS programs, and future papers and presentations. The SAS UK Professional Forum was no different. Plus I learned how to really speak English from the British – you should be glad they got me “sorted” and now I’m in the right “bit”. SAS BI Book was Key to BI Content Exam The first day of the conference is dedicated to taking the SAS Certification exams. It was nice because SAS had created study groups several months earlier and used a team approach for taking the exam. So all the folks interested in the SAS BI exams were placed in a group and encouraged to study together. On the day of the exam, the SAS team offered some last-minute tips and encouragement. Here’s a picture of the folks who took the SAS BI Content and Admin exams. These three fellows were some of the ones who made sure I knew that the Building Business Intelligence with SAS book was helpful. Thanks Chris Dillion (@CMDillon) for supplying the study group with the book. Paul Dutton passed the exam in 12 minutes. He said his key was reading the […]
Example 9.38: dynamite plots, revisited
Dynamite plots are a somewhat pejorative term for a graphical display where the height of a bar indicates the mean, and the vertical line on top of it represents the standard deviation (or standard error). These displays are commonly found in many scie…
Listing the data sets in a library within your custom task
A SAS Professionals attendee and Twitter follower named Marco asks for help: ..struggling to find a method with custom tasks in EG to be able to list the datasets in a library, can you help please? Sure, no problem. This is easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy. First, make sure that you have a reference […]