Flow control and looping is a very important aspect for any programming language. To see how to index a particular value in the languages’ default data type, creating a lower triangle multiplication table looks like a good test, since it is a simp…
Watch and learn: Save time with Task Templates
In this SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office Tip, instructor Rob McAfee teaches how to save steps with Task Templates. Using Task Templates saves you time and ensures consistency when you are creating several similar reports and analysis. A Task Templat…
SAS and VBA (1) : cross tabulation and bar chart
No other tools can challenge Excel’s stance in the data analysis world. I didn’t spot many computers that are not installed with it, and I assume that everybody who faces a computer during work has to use it sometime. With the power of VBA, it is a…
The SAS Macro Language: Powerful as a Corvette!
I love the power of my Corvette and the power of the SAS macro language. That is why, for the past 12 months, when not driving my Corvette, I put my heart and soul into the challenging task of updating our SAS Macro Language 2 course, soliciting inpu…
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…