Your First Look at the SAS Visual Analytics Home Page

After you log on to SAS Visual Analytics using the standard Log On window for SAS applications, you will see the home page. The home page enables you to create new content in SAS Visual Analytics. In addition, it enables you to access content that you and others have created.

Here are the features of the home page:

The Home Page

1	The menu bar enables you to access task options, such as creating reports, exploring data, managing your environment or favorites, setting your view, and getting help on using SAS Visual Analytics. You can search all SAS content from the menu bar, and you can log off from SAS Visual Analytics. For more information about searching, see About Searching from the Home Page.
2	The Create Content area provides icons to let you quickly create a new report, explore data, or prepare data, depending on your role and the associated capabilities. Other installed SAS applications might add actions to the Create Content area.
3	The My Content area lists any explorations, reports, queries, tables, or stored processes that you have opened or created recently. It also lists any content that you have marked as a favorite or as part of a collection. Click Browse to explore folders to find a report, exploration, stored process, or table. Note: All tables are displayed because the home page does not distinguish between LASR tables and other tables.
4	The Other Content area displays lists of explorations, reports, stored processes, queries, or tables that your system administrator has added for you. If your system administrator has not created any lists, then you will not see any content in the Other Content area. The heading is still displayed. If you have an Administration role, then you will also see a Manage link that enables you to manage lists.
5	The Common Actions pane provides an alternate way for you to create reports, explore data, and manage your environment or favorites. If you have an Administration role, then you will also see a Prepare Data link. Other installed SAS applications might add actions to the Common Actions pane.
6	The Links pane provides a link to the introductory video for SAS Visual Analytics and links to other pages that you have bookmarked. You might also see links to other SAS products, such as SAS Theme Designer for Flex, depending on your role and the SAS licenses that your site has. Position your mouse pointer over the Links heading to activate the , which opens the Add Link window. Click to open the Manage Links window, where you can add, delete, re-order, and hide links.
7	The SAS Resources pane provides links to resources on the SAS website and to social media.

If you have the Theme Designer for Flex: Administration role in SAS Management Console, you can access the SAS Theme Designer for Flex from the More Actions item on the menu bar.

Here is an example of the menu bar with the More Actions item.

Home Page Menu Bar with the More Actions Item

Once you start using the home page, thumbnails enable you to open explorations, reports, stored processes, tables, queries, and folders that you have created or opened. The default view is secure, generic thumbnails that represent the content. Your system administrator can set a property that specifies the use of thumbnails that are shared and unique to each object. Shared thumbnails are unique for each individual report object, so each report looks different from other reports, and each exploration looks different from other explorations.

Generic thumbnails are distinguished by content type only. All reports look the same, but they appear different from explorations. Here are examples of the generic thumbnails that you might see on the home page:

Generic Thumbnails for an Exploration, a Report, and a Stored Process

You can choose to view the content on the home page as a list. To change your view, click view icon

on the menu bar, and then select Thumbnail or List. The default is Thumbnail.

Here is an example of the list view for the home page:

List View

For more information about other parts of the SAS Visual Analytics interface, see the following topics: