What's New in SAS Information Delivery Portal 4.3

Overview

The SAS Information Delivery Portal 4.3 includes a number of general enhancements, a new report portlet, and SAS BI portlets. New promotion scripts are available to enable you to promote Portal content from previous releases.

General Enhancements

A new Customize menu is available from the banner. Some options from the Options menu have been moved to the Customize menu to improve usability.
The Options menu has been modified to improve usability. Some of the selections have been reordered, and others have been moved to the new Customize menu.
Depending on the software that has been installed, the portal now uses SAS Web Report Studio or SAS Web Report Viewer to display SAS Information Maps.
Data explorations are no longer available from the portal. Any data explorations from earlier versions of SAS have been converted to reports.
The Information Map Viewer portlet is no longer available. You can use the new report portlet to display reports with data from information maps. Any Information Map Viewer portlets from previous versions of SAS have been converted to report portlets.
Publishing SAS Information Maps is no longer supported.

Report Portlet

A new report portlet displays the output from SAS reports.

SAS BI Portlets

Depending on the features that you have installed, SAS BI portlets might be available within the SAS Information Delivery Portal. SAS BI portlets are portlets that conform to the JSR 168 standard and can be deployed in both the SAS Information Delivery Portal and in third-party Web portals.

Promotion Scripts

A new set of promotion scripts enables you to promote Information Delivery Portal content from previous releases. You can promote content from SAS 9.1.3 and from previous releases of SAS 9.2.