Discovering Details about Objects on the Home Page

The home page provides a feature that enables you to quickly find more information about an object when you click it. You can see a description of the report or exploration, where the report or exploration is saved, who the author is, and when the report or exploration was modified. A small toolbar lets you add the report or exploration to your favorites or set it as your preferred starting page. Note that when you set a favorite, the icon turns yellow (yellow favorites icon).
Your role determines the availability of other actions on the toolbar (such as viewing, editing, or opening) in the object inspector.
Here is an example of what you might see for a report:
The Object Inspector on the Home Page
The Object Inspector on the Home Page
If you have the Report Viewing role, then the toolbar enables you to open a report in the Web viewer by clicking Open.
If you have the Analysis or Administration roles, then the toolbar in the object inspector enables you to do the following:
  • Edit a report, which opens the report in the designer interface so that you can edit or change the objects in the report.
  • View a report, which opens the report in the Web viewer.
  • Open for an exploration, which displays the explorer interface.
  • Click favorite icon to add the report or exploration to your list of favorites. When the icon is yellow (yellow favorites icon) click to remove the object from your list of favorites.
  • Click set initial screen icon to set the report or exploration as the initial screen when you start SAS Visual Analytics.
All users can add Comments to a report or view existing comments about the report using the link in the lower right of the object inspector.
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