Working with Tables in the Folders Window

Load a New Table

To load a new table from the Folders navigation pane:
  1. In SAS Visual Analytics Administrator, expand the Folders navigation pane.
  2. If you know the name of the table in the metadata, click Search to display the Search: Folders window and enter the name of the table. If you do not know the table name, navigate the folder path to find the table.
  3. Select the table, and right-click. In the drop-down menu, select Reload TableLoad a Table.
  4. In the Load a Table window, the source table is displayed in the LASR Table: Name field.
    The library associated with this table is also displayed.
  5. Enter the target LASR table name in the Name field below LASR Table.
    The description is optional. Note that this description is displayed next to this LASR table when users select a data source in the Open Data Source window within SAS Visual Analytics applications. When you add a description, it provides additional information to the users about this data source.
  6. Click Browse for the Location field, and select the folder where you want the output table to be located.
  7. Click Browse for the Library field, navigate the folder path to find the library for the SAS LASR Analytic Server, and select the library that should be applied to this table.
  8. Click Submit.
  9. Click Refresh. Then, click and expand the tree view for Server. The loaded table is displayed with the status Status.

Load the Same Source Table as a Different Target Table

If a source table was loaded into the SAS LASR Analytic Server, it can be loaded again as a different target table.
To load the same source table as a different target table:
  1. In SAS Visual Analytics Administrator, expand the Folders navigation pane.
  2. If you know the name of the table, click Search to display the Search: Folders window and enter the name of the table. If you do not know the table name, navigate the folder path to find the table.
  3. Select the table, and right-click. In the drop-down menu, select Reload TableLoad from Table.
  4. In the Load a Table window, specify the target table name in the Name field for LASR Table. The description is optional.
    Note that this description is displayed next to this LASR table when users select a data source in the Open Data Source window within SAS Visual Analytics applications. When you add a description, it provides additional information to the users about this data source.
  5. Click Browse for the Location field, and select the folder where you want the output table to be located.
  6. Click Browse for the Library field, navigate the folder path to find the library for the SAS LASR Analytic Server, and select the library that should be applied to this table.
    Tip
    The library that you select for this table must be different from the library that was used when this table was loaded previously. You cannot use the same library for the same table multiple times.
  7. Click Submit.