In this case coolest swag does equal coolest tool

Angela Hall
Angela Hall|April 24, 2012

One of the biggest hits of the demo hall at SAS Global Forum was the cute Koala bear swag from MetaCoda.com. Everyone wanted to stop by the booth and pick one up for their badge. Driving people to your booth is the first step, but then you must have cool [...]

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Limit the number of drill-through to detail records available from OLAP cubes

Angela Hall
Angela Hall|November 9, 2011

Drill-through to detail is the ability to right click within a cell of a web report or OLAP viewer and request the detail source records that make up that specific cell’s measure. The maximum number of records, by default, is set to 300,000. Feasibly the report user could download all [...]

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Revisiting the starting file location for Enterprise Guide

Angela Hall
Angela Hall|October 27, 2011

Years ago and a seemingly far galaxy away, I wrote about how to modify 9.1.3 to start Enterprise Guide users in a different location for the File folder. By default, the user only can access their personal SAS Temporary File. Why change this? I would prefer to use a central [...]

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Promoting SAS BI Dashboard content

Angela Hall
Angela Hall|October 25, 2011

If you are unable to export BI Dashboard Content the BI Dashboard Logical types was not installed on the system running SAS Management Console. Update this by following these steps Run the software install from the SAS Depot (mine is located at C:\SAS Software Depot\setup.exe) Select ‘Install Additional Software’ Then [...]

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Become super-efficient at starting & stopping services via scripting

Angela Hall
Angela Hall|October 21, 2011

Which would you rather do? Click stop (or start) over and over, while waiting in between the services to make sure everything is up and running … OR … click one button and go have lunch? Honestly I prefer the lunch option. (And for administrators, the quickest option is always [...]

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Increasing the web timeout intervals

Angela Hall
Angela Hall|September 14, 2011

I’ve been spending my weekends developing a SAS Publishing book proposal. (For those interested, it involves learning how to fully leverage SAS Stored Processes as a beginning programmer.) Creating examples and jumping between coding, testing and then writing about everything, I have had a heck of a time with my [...]

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Accessing BI web applications from Windows 7

Angela Hall
Angela Hall|August 24, 2011

According to the SAS Documentation http://support.sas.com/resources/thirdpartysupport/v92m3/browsers.html Windows 7 machines should use Internet Explorer 8. Unfortunately Microsoft will no longer allow installations of IE 8 on Windows 7 machines. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/internet-explorer/downloads/ie-8 I was able to get all the web applications to work on Google Chrome however the BI Dashboard appears but not all [...]

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New 9.3 Framework Data Server

Angela Hall
Angela Hall|August 22, 2011

Just got some time to begin playing with the 9.3 Enterprise Business Intelligence installation on my SAS laptop. As I was testing out the web applications, SASWebDoc opened but I couldn’t get to the SAS login screen up to access the SAS Stored Process web application. First I started perusing my [...]

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Advantages abound by centralizing all of those logs

Angela Hall
Angela Hall|August 15, 2011

In order to support a SAS Server Architecture, administrators must know where all the log files from the various SAS Business Intelligence services are located. By default, each service that generates a log will create it within the services’ own configuration folder structure. For example, the metadata server log is [...]

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Right Mouse Clicking in Stored Process and Portal Web Apps

Angela Hall
Angela Hall|April 19, 2011

In 9.2, the right-mouse click functionality is not available by default. To switch back to this (which for STP developers in a DEV environment is essential to our productivity), SAS has provided the following note: http://support.sas.com/kb/39/292.html As you can see, out-of-the-box, all SAS STP developers will need to do is [...]

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