One of my gripes with Web Report Studio is that it is not always obvious that a report contains more sections. When demonstrating a report with …
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When you need to add or link a stored process to your Web Report Studio report, you might be worried that it will not look the same. For instance – here’s a simple stored process that I created where I declare the style as Banker. [You can also use a SAS supplied …
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Here’s a few quick tips to use when creating information maps that are used with Web Report Studio. Tip #1: Order Data Items How They Are Displayed You may not always know how data items are used in the reports, but sometimes you do! For instance…
Is there a worse way to start your day than someone calling to tell you that your marvelous Web Report Studio report is not working? Yes, this means the world is being denied a viewing of your stunning visual design efforts about last quarter’s s…
With limited time and budget, you can still thoroughly test SAS reports built in SAS BI Dashboard and SAS Web Report Studio by considering how all the tools were used to build the end report. An understanding of the functionality within each part of th…
Last week I talked about how you could customize the style sheet for Web Report Studio. One reader, Kushal Ramani, a SAS consultant from Epoch Research India, suggested that I list some other items that you can easily change in Web Report Studio and SAS Portal. All of these changes require access to SAS Management Console – so if you don’t have that access you will need to work with your SAS site administration. Also I’m using SAS 9.3 – if you are using a previous version then your windows or these locations may be slightly different. Change the SAS Portal Banner Title You can make a small tweak to the SAS Information Delivery Portal to replace your organization’s name with the word “SAS Portal” as shown in the following figure. It’s actually a change so simple it should probably be a sin. You can find complete details in the SAS Usage Note 37734. Just open up SAS Management Console and do the following: In the Plug-ins tab, go to Application Management > Configuration Manager. Locate the Information Delivery Portal item in the list. Right-click Information Delivery Portal 4.3 and select Properties. From the Advanced tab, change the Portal.Banner.Title value […]
On a recent project, we needed to change the colors of the bars to match the customer’s website style. I had heard this was a daunting task requiring lots of white magic and prayer. Turns out what is difficult is if you want to completely re-do a style but it’s fairly simple if you just want to make a few changes. Changing the Style Color First my goal was to change the default colors on the bar chart. In the following example I used some crazy colors to ensure I knew it was working. Thus, red, green and yellow. Also notice I named my style Tricia and it was added to the Report Style menu. If you only want to change the bars for a single report, read this Chart Makeover post for a quick how-to. Update an Existing Style Note: Refer to the Customizing SAS Web Report Studio Report Styles in the SAS User Documentation for a more in-depth discussion. SAS provides a sample cascading style sheet (CSS) file that you can use as a basis for your new style design. CSS is a flat file that you can edit using Notepad or like application. [More on CSS here] The sample […]
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 […]