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Angela Hall 3
Using custom formats in Information Map Studio 4.2

The easiest option is to simply move your 9.2 format catalog to Lev1/SASApp/SASEnvironment/SASFormats/formats.sas7bcat. But you can also modify your SASv9.cfg configuration file to point to a different location: -set fmtlib1 "E:\sharedformats" -fmtsearch (fmtlib1.formats) So e:\sharedformats is a shared location for the format catalog, and formats (filename formats.sas7bcat) is the name

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Angela Hall 0
Establishing and using a SAS data set as a BI Dashboard 4.2 source

A couple notes on how to set up and use a SAS dataset for a BI Dashboard Data Model. 1. The folder location (for TS2M2 installations) of dboard_sas.dsx is: <config dir>\Lev1\AppData\SASBIDashboard4.2\dataSourceDefs\ 2. The format for the libref change is LIBRARYName 'File Location'; LIBRARYName 'File Location'; Such as: <LibRefs>BIDASH 'C:\SAS\Data\BIDashboard';</LibRefs> Where

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Angela Hall 0
Scheduling reports in WRS 4.2

Have you looked into scheduling reports in Web Report Studio? Two scenarios that make this option valuable to SAS Business Intelligence Users: 1. Performance Improvement via Report Caching If the data is only updated weekly (for instance) but the report is viewed multiple times in the week, scheduling the report

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Stacey Hamilton 2
Viva SAS Technical Support

Last Friday I had the pleasure of spending a rewarding hour sitting with Jan Squillace, a technical support analyst for SAS. Jan actually reached out to Christine and me, inviting us to “sit in on an hour of Tech Support Phone Duty, just to see what happens in the real

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Angela Hall 3
Portal group administration in 9.2

Included are some notes on Portal Administration in SAS 9.2. 1. Create a User Group in SMC, include members and a content administrator to this group. 2. Restart the Web Service or Log into Portal as sasadm@saspw (per documentation: http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/biwaag/63059/HTML/default/ag_permissiontrees.htm) 3. Configure a group content administrator by opening the 'Group

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Angela Hall 0
Reading tweets from twitter via SAS

So you want to grab tweets from twitter? There are several other blog posts to assist, including the SAS blog reference below. Grab the status of one twitter account (changing USERNAME to the twitter handle) via: http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.xml?screen_name=&USERNAME&count;=3200 Then to help folks get jumpstarted, use the XMLMAP that I created below

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Angela Hall 0
Share your information!

As I mentioned earlier this week via Twitter: "Newsalert: You are no longer considered an expert if you hoard all the info to yourself. You MUST share - train/blog/ppr/tweet!" (http://twitter.com/angelahall1/status/7445045263) I have personally experienced subject matter experts who refuse to share the information they learn. They feel they must charge

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Shelly Goodin 0
Wrapping up 2009

Contributed by Michele Burlew, president of Episystems Inc. and SAS Publishing author What a great way to end 2009 by having both Combining and Modifying SAS Data Sets: Examples, Second Edition (CMDS) and Output Delivery System: The Basics and Beyond (ODS) in print! Each is a hefty stocking stuffer for

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Stacey Hamilton 1
Zuzu's petals

We watched our favorite holiday movie last weekend: Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life. Most who know me would be surprised to read that I start sobbing at about the time that Mr. Gower buys George his—alas, unused—around-the-world suitcase and don’t stop until (spoiler alert!) Clarence gets his wings. One

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