Overview of User Reports

User reports are SAS programs that you create and import to SAS Model Manager so that you can customize reports to meet your business requirements. The ad hoc report enables you to develop, test, and run your report within SAS Model Manager. The user-defined report can be developed either within or external to SAS Model Manager. It requires a SAS program and the associated auxiliary files to be installed in a directory that is available to SAS Model Manager and is run using the New Report window.

Using ad hoc reports, you modify and submit your code from the SAS Editor within the Create Ad Hoc Reports window. Ad hoc reports are defined and can be run only under the version where it was created.

A user-defined report is a report that is available for reporting on all models in SAS Model Manager. The user-defined report requires three files to be installed in your server's file structure:

After you have these three files, you use the SAS Model Manager Template Editor to upload the files to the SAS Content Server.

The ad hoc report can be used to develop, test, and debug user-defined reports. When your ad hoc report is ready for a production environment, you can create the report template XML file and the macro file, and install the three files in the user-defined report file structure.

The first time you create a report, SAS Model Manager creates a node for the report under the Reports node.

Each time you run create a new ad hoc report, SAS Model Manager creates these files:

Each time you run create a new user-defined report, SAS Model Manager creates these files:

Here is a description of the ad hoc report output files:

You can see the contents of these files by selecting them in the Project Tree. You can also see the taskCode.sas file and the taskCode.log files by selecting the report name. SAS Model Manager displays tabs for these files to the right of the Properties tab.