The Welcome Window :: SAS(R) Visual Analytics 6.4: User's Guide

Overview of the Welcome Window

If you enter the explorer without a reference to a specific exploration, then the Welcome window appears.

The Welcome window enables you to perform the following tasks:

Create a New Exploration
Open an Existing Exploration

Create a New Exploration

To create a new exploration, click Select a Data Source. The Open Data Source window appears.

To open a data source that is already loaded, select the data source from the Data Sources pane and then click Open. In the Search field, you can enter a short string to find all of the data sources whose names or descriptions begin with that string.

Note: You can also perform a search that matches a string anywhere in the data source name. Select the Search field, and then press Ctrl + Down to switch the search to Search (contains).

To load a new data source, click one of the links in the Import Data pane. This task is available only if you have the Import and Load Data capability.

For information about importing data, see Importing Local Data Files and Importing Data from Servers.

Open an Existing Exploration

To open an existing exploration, you can either select from your recent explorations, or select any exploration by clicking Browse to locate the exploration.