Exploration Comments :: SAS(R) Visual Analytics 6.2: User's Guide

About Exploration Comments

The explorer enables you to create and share comments about your explorations. The comments can be viewed in the explorer and on the SAS Visual Analytics home page.

In addition to exploration comments, you can create comments for specific visualizations. See Manage Visualization Comments.

View Exploration Comments

To view the comments for the current exploration, select File

Exploration Comments. The comments are grouped by topic.

If there are many comments in a topic, then only the most recent comments are displayed. Click Show All Comments to view all of the comments for a topic.

To search the comments, enter a search term in the Search within comments field.

Create an Exploration Comment

Create a Comment under an Existing Topic

To create a comment under an existing topic:

Enter your comment text in the Respond to topic field that is beneath the topic that you want to comment on.
(Optional) Click to attach a file to the comment.
When you are finished with the comment, click Post. Your comment is saved and shared immediately.

Create a Comment under a New Topic

To create a comment under a new topic:

Enter the name of the topic in the Enter a topic name field.
Enter your comment text in the Enter a comment field.
(Optional) Click to attach a file to the comment.
When you are finished with the comment, click Post. Your comment is saved and shared immediately.

Edit an Exploration Comment

To edit a comment, select the comment that you want to edit, and then click Edit.

Note: To edit other users’ comments, you must belong to the Comments:Administrator role.

Delete an Exploration Comment

To delete a comment, select the comment that you want to delete, and then click Delete.

Note: To delete comments, you must belong to the Comments:Administrator role.