Tag: Web Report Studio

Putting back tabs in SAS WRS 4.3

In SAS Web Report Studio 4.3, users can set an option that will display navigational tabs for report sections, similar to the tabs that appeared in version 3.1. To set this property, make the following changes to the SAS Web Report Studio properties in SAS® Management Console. On the Plug-ins tab, select Application Management ► […]

Web Report Studio 4.3 Roles (and hiding the Edit Tab)

Doing some work to figure out how to remove the Edit tab for a user in WRS 4.3. Found this table of roles for WRS on the SAS Support site here: Predefined Roles and Capabilities for SAS Web Report Studio By the way the trick on the edit tab is to make sure PUBLIC doesnt […]

Dynamic Static Filters – Turbo boost!

Dynamic filters in Web Report Studio are awesome – no predefining static values and also in sync with the data.  But…. they can be a bit on the slow side. Clicking on the ‘Get Values’ button runs a select distinct query which will return the filter list. How long this takes is dependant on a […]

Letter to Web Report Studio Users about Mapping Features

Dear Web Report Studio Users,

Recently, the SAS Web Report Studio (WRS) design team has been re-evaluating the mapping features and functions offered to our customers in WRS. In order to ensure that we are meeting our customer’s mapping needs, we w…

Don’t waste time opening Web Report Studio reports with monthly/quarterly/yearly data!

SAS Web Report Studio 4.2 provides you an excellent interface to schedule reports to refresh, because why would you want the report to generate for every user every time they open the report when the data is only updating weekly/monthly/etc?

During yo…

Unable to Open Excel Files from SAS Web Report Studio

Was assisting an individual with an issue on the SAS Discussion Forum and we discovered why some users would not get the prompt to save/view excel content in excel rather than in the web browser.

Essentially, the file type options were different for t…

Speeding up Web Report Studio (9.1/3.1) by jumping in puddles

When SAS 9.2 was released one of the changes SAS made was to change the default setting for WRS from using a standard workspace server to a pooled workspace server. This was to improve performance as pooled workspace servers remove the requirement for sas executables (sas.exe) to start and stop for each query, and therefore […]