Introduction to SAS Web Report Studio Administration

New Features in the Administration of SAS Web Report Studio 4.3

SAS Web Report Studio 4.3 offers several new features and enhancements that make administration easier, flexible, and convenient. These enhancements and changes are as follows:

Folders for images, templates, and items for report distribution for users now reside within the /SASWebReportStudio/Common folder. Previously, these folders were located within the /SAS Folders/System/Applications/SAS Web Report Studio/Web Report Studio 4.2 folder. When you upgrade to SAS Web Report Studio 4.3, report templates and report distribution items are copied to the new location. Existing banner images and conditional highlighting images remain in the old location (so that referencing reports continue to work) and are also copied to the new location.
By default, clustering is enabled.
By default, in-process scheduling is supported in a clustered environment. An in-process scheduling server runs as a process inside SAS Web Report Studio, which eliminates the need to send jobs to an external scheduling server. The in-process server is installed as part of the SAS Web Report Studio installation, which eliminates the need to install, maintain, and license separate scheduling servers.
SAS Web Report Studio 4.3 has 30 ports available for use by the application. These ports are in the range of 7560 to 7589.
An event is logged in the WebReportStudio_KeyActions.log file when a user creates, edits, or deletes a distribution list.
Details about SAS Web Report Studio users' logon and logoff from sessions can be viewed conveniently in the WebReportStudio_KeyActions.log file.
You can specify a different directory (other than the default directory) where the Key User Action log files can be saved.
You can specify whether the display of the left pane in SAS Web Report Studio window should depend on the user's preferences during the previous logon session. By specifying the value of user for the wrs.ReportViewPrefs.LeftPanelOpenState property, you can ensure that SAS Web Report Studio retrieves the user's action from the previous logon session, and accordingly displays or eliminates the left pane in the application.
Two new capabilities have been added to SAS Web Report Studio 4.3 and SAS Web Report Viewer 4.3: Allow Direct Access to Cubes and Allow Direct Access to Tables. The Allow Direct Access to Cubes capability is included by default in the following roles: Web Report Studio: Report Creation, Web Report Studio: Advanced, and Web Report Viewer: Advanced.
The Open Maps as Reports capability has been renamed to Allow Direct Access to Information Maps. In addition, the Repair Report capability has been renamed to Update Resources. For sites that upgrade from SAS Web Report Studio 4.2, the names of these capabilities will remain the same.
New styles are available for reports.
The Distribute Report Wizard includes new features.
SAS Web Report Studio reports can be scheduled only by regular users with a SAS identity. SAS internal accounts cannot be used to schedule reports.
The optional trusted parameter is not available in the Report Output Generation tool.
To distribute reports with the Report Output Generation tool in environments with multihomed machines, the Outputgen.ini file should be updated to include the -Djgroups.bind_addr command.
Reports can be scheduled only by regular users with a metadata identity. SAS internal accounts such as the SAS Trusted User cannot be used to schedule reports.

SAS Web OLAP Viewer for Java

The SAS Web OLAP Viewer for Java application is no longer supported. It has been replaced by functionality that is available in SAS Web Report Studio 4.3. SAS Web Report Studio 4.3 contains the following changes:

Bookmarks and data explorations are not supported.
All data explorations are migrated to SAS Web Report Studio 4.3 reports. You can still use the search capabilities within SAS Information Delivery Portal 4.3 to find those reports, as well as the information maps.
SAS Information Delivery Portal 4.3 includes a new Report Portlet that displays SAS Web Report Studio 4.3 reports.
During software updates, the SAS Information Delivery Portal converts instances of the Information Map Viewer portlet to the new Report Portlet.
The migration tool creates a copy of the original data explorations and bookmarks, and places them in the same location where the original content resided.
Visual Data Explorer is not available to display information maps in SAS Information Delivery Portal 4.3.
In Edit mode within the portal, users can select a SAS Web Report Studio report instead of a data exploration.
The SAS Collection Portlet, which is included in the suite of SAS BI Portlets and is compliant with JSR 168, does not allow users to search for data explorations. All data explorations are migrated to SAS Web Report Studio 4.3 reports. Users can, however, search for information maps.

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