About Viewing Content

The content and applications that you can access are displayed in portlets on the pages of the SAS Information Delivery Portal. If the content or application that you want does not appear on any of your portal pages, then you can use the search tool to try to locate it.
To view content or to launch an application from a portlet, click one of the active links that the portlet contains.
Note: Depending on the software that is installed at your site, the portal might contain additional portlets. These can be custom portlets created by your organization or portlets provided by other SAS products or solutions. These portlets can display other types of data, text, or graphics, and can have specific interactive capabilities. These portlets are not documented here, but some of them might have a Help icon Help icon in the title bar that you can click for information.
When you click a link for a content item in a portlet, or an item on the search results panel, one of the following actions occurs:
  • If the item is an application, then the portal launches the application in your browser window. When you are finished using the application, click Portal in the banner to return to the portal page that was displayed most recently.
  • If the item is not an application, then the portal displays the item in the portal's browser window, as in the following example:
    a content item that is not an application such as this publication channel
When you view a content item, you can perform the following actions:
  • If the item is a package, a report, a publication channel (as in the example), or a syndication channel, then you can use the navigation tools in the viewer to drill down into the item's components.
  • If the item is a stored process, then you can enter any parameters that are requested on the page. You can then execute the stored process.
  • To create an e-mail message that contains the URL address for the displayed item, click E-mail in the toolbar. For more information, see E-mail a Reference to Portal Content.
  • To create a bookmark for the displayed item and place it in your Bookmarks portlet, click Bookmark in the toolbar. For more information, see About Bookmarks.
  • To publish information to other authorized users, then you can click Publish if it is available in the toolbar. For more information, see Publish Content.
  • If you accessed the content by using the portal's search feature, then to return to the search results, click Search in the banner. To return to the portal page that was displayed most recently, click Portal Page in the banner. (For best results, always use these links instead of the browser's Back button.)