Introduction to SAS Web Report Studio Administration

New Features in the Administration of SAS Web Report Studio 4.2

SAS Web Report Studio 4.2 offers several new features and enhancements that make administration easier, flexible, and convenient. These enhancements are as follows:

Users' folders for SAS Web Report Studio can be located anywhere below the SAS Folders directory in the Folders tab of SAS Management Console. Previously, in SAS Web Report Studio 3.1, you were required to use predefined storage folders. This is no longer the case.
Three predefined roles are available for SAS Web Report Studio with certain capabilities that are assigned to these roles initially. These predefined roles include Report Viewing, Report Creation, and Advanced. You are not required to use predefined roles. You can create roles and capabilities that meet the needs of your organization. You can determine the number of roles to create, which features are available for each role, and control other aspects of role-based behavior.
The Report Distribution Wizard enables you to create and edit recipient lists by specifying recipient names and e-mail addresses, and channel information within the wizard's dialog boxes.
When users need to view a report, and are transferred by an external application such as the SAS Information Delivery Portal, those users can be transferred to SAS Web Report Studio (if the application is installed). The functionality offered by SAS Web Report Studio is determined by the capabilities assigned to these users.
You can set security measures to limit SAS Web Report Studio to interact only with information maps that are in designated locations. For example, you might limit the availability of all relational information maps because some of those information maps include row-level permissions.
As with all SAS applications, logging is accomplished by using the Logging Service Configuration dialog box within the Configuration Manager in SAS Management Console.
In previous versions of SAS Web Report Studio, the LocalProperties.xml file offered the only practical method to override properties and their values. Although this file is available and supported in SAS Web Report Studio 4.2, it is recommended that you use the Configuration Manager in SAS Management Console to configure and set properties for SAS Web Report Studio. The Configuration Manager plug-in offers a consistent interface to set properties for all SAS applications.
You can add disclaimer text to tables and graphics, and the text appears below all tables and graphics in reports.
In previous versions of SAS Web Report Studio, the WebReportStudioProperties.xml file was used. Now, the Advanced tab in the Web Report Studio Properties 4.2 dialog box is used to specify property names and property values.
SAS Web Report Studio 4.2 maintains a working area that is hidden from users. This working area, which is located at /System/Applications/SAS Web Report Studio/Web Report Studio 4.2, is accessed by using the SAS Management Console. This location might store shared content such as images.
Banner images are stored in the /Web Report Studio 4.2/BannerImages folder. Sample conditional highlighting image files are deployed in the /Web Report Studio 4.2/ConditionalHighlightingImages folder.
In previous releases of SAS software, if client-side pooling was configured, SAS Web Report Studio 3.1 required that the pooling administrator's user name and password be stored in the metadata. With SAS Web Report Studio 4.2, this requirement has been waived. Previously, SAS Web Report Studio 3.1 stored credentials for the Web administrator (saswbadm) and pooling administrator in the WebReportStudioProperties.xml file. This is no longer true with SAS Web Report Studio 4.2.
Beginning with the third maintenance release for SAS 9.2, the log file, SASBIReportServices4.2.log, is created when you first run the report output generation tool with default permissions.
In the third maintenance release for SAS 9.2, you can change the location of the temporary workspace for SAS Web Report Studio and SAS Web Report Viewer.

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