Angela offers tips on using the SAS Business Intelligence solutions. She manages a team of SAS Fraud Framework implementers within the SAS Solutions On-Demand organization. Angela also has co-written two books, 'Building BI using SAS, Content Development Examples' & 'The 50 Keys to Learning SAS Stored Processes'.
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 would like to invite you to participate in a
There are times when I'm looking for the right color to highlight an item or otherwise make output beautiful. As a result, I am always struggling to find good colors to use in my output. SAS Support to the rescue. They have created a program that displays the 256 colors
As Chris Hemedinger has written in several of his blog posts, SAS Enterprise Guide 4.3 has many more formatting options. I particularily enjoyed the 'CTRL-i' option to reformat SAS code with indents and carriage returns to make my programs even more readable. The 'CTRL-e' and 'CTRL-SHIFT-e' keyboard shortcuts are also
Integrating Stored Processes into Information Maps can improve process performance as well as provide extra flexibility and complete query generation control. In order to showcase how powerful this combination is, I am presenting this topic during a SAS Talks webinar session this Thursday, December 16th. The scope of the example will
Another Guest Post from Tricia Aanderud, SAS Programmer Extraordinaire! Here's a hint from the SAS Support site that shows you how to see all the installed templates. If you don't have SAS EG, this code allows you to quickly see the different styles. Also - it can serve as a
During your installation, you can utilize a separate location to store the installation temporary files. The -datalocation option must be defined in the command line with setup.exe. The resulting files include: as well as: Local Settings\Application Data\SAS\SASDeploymentWizard\9.2\Bootstrap.log
Guest Post from Tricia Aanderud, SAS Programmer Extraordinaire (meaning she's BASE SAS Certified and an awesome programmer!) When I send ODS HTML email to Outlook 2007, it is ugly. After a lot of research, I finally found the answer on the SAS Support site. If you use ODS HTML -
SAS Web Application Infrastructure automatically logs users out of the system after a predesignated amount of time. Unless the user has the URL bookmarked, they have to retype the Web Application URL. There is a much less frustrating way for users to get back in, allow the user login button
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 your design and development of these scheduled reports, consider
There is a wide array of papers (from SAS, conferences, on blog posts, etc) discussing the need to move WORK (the SAS temporary files) off to other locations. In the SAS Intelligence Platform it's the same way, however there are a BUNCH of SAS configuration files to start worrying with.
