Specifying Your Preferences

All of your preferences persist between sessions. Preferences are not available for a user with guest access.

Specify Global Preferences

You can specify global preferences that are applied to all SAS web applications that are displayed with the Adobe Flash player. These preferences are set by each user.
To specify global preferences:
  1. Click either the Edit Preferences button or Edit Preferences on the home page. The Preferences window is displayed.
    Note: If you are in the data builder, the explorer, the designer, or the viewer, then select Filethen selectPreferences to open the Preferences window.
  2. Click Global Preferences in the left pane.
  3. Select a User locale to specify your language and geographic region.
    Select a Theme to change the color scheme and other visual settings for all of your SAS web applications.
    Select Invert application colors to invert all of the colors in your SAS web applications.
    Select Override settings for focus indicator to change the color, thickness, and opacity of the focus in your SAS web applications.
    Note: If you change the User locale, then you must log off and log back on to SAS Visual Analytics for the change to take effect.
  4. Click OK to apply your changes.

Specify the SAS Visual Analytics General Preferences

Using the SAS Visual Analytics home page, you can specify your general preferences for SAS Visual Analytics.
To specify your general preferences:
  1. Click either the Edit Preferences button or Edit Preferences to open the Preferences window.
  2. Click General in the left pane.
  3. Specify a value for Show this number of recent items. There is a minimum of one item and a maximum of 16 items. The default setting is 9 items.
    Click Clear History to reset your history.
  4. Click OK to apply your changes.

Specify Your Initial Screen Preference

You can specify the initial screen that you want to see after you log on to SAS Visual Analytics.
To specify the initial screen preference using the home page:
  1. Click either the Edit Preferences button or Edit Preferences to open the Preferences window.
  2. Click Home in the left pane.
  3. Select an option from the Initial screen drop-down list. The available options depend on your role and capabilities.
    Tip
    If you select A specific object, then you can use the Choose an Item window to choose one content type (for example, reports, explorations, tables, stored processes, and so on) for your initial screen. The available content types depend on the SAS products that your site has licensed and how they are configured.
  4. Click OK to apply your changes.

Specify Other Preferences

You can specify other preferences in SAS Visual Analytics:
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