Export an Exploration as a Report

You can export your exploration as a report, which can be refined in the designer interface or viewed directly on a mobile device or in SAS Visual Analytics Viewer (the viewer).
To export your current exploration as a report:
  1. Select Filethen selectExportthen selectExploration as Report.
    Note: If you have only one visualization in your exploration, the Save As window is displayed at this point. Select the location where you want to save the report, and then click Save to export it as a report.
  2. In the Export as Report window, select the visualizations that you want to include in the report.
    Note: The following types of visualizations are not available to include in the report:
    • visualizations that do not contain any data
    • decision trees
    • network diagrams
    • Sankey diagrams
    • word clouds
    • treemaps that display additional levels
    • line charts with forecasting analysis are not available if the visualization has not been displayed during the current session
    • geo maps that use calculated geography data items
    Note: If your scatter plot or heat map contains correlation data, the correlations are not included in the report.
    The Export to Report window enables you to perform the following tasks:
    Task
    Action
    Add visualizations to the selection list.
    (Restore visualizations.)
    Select a visualization from the Available list, and then click the Add button, or click the Add all button to add all of the available visualizations.
    Remove visualizations from the selection list.
    (Minimize visualizations.)
    Select a visualization from the Selected list, and then click the Remove button, or click the Remove all button to remove all of the visualizations.
    Change the order of the selected visualizations.
    In the Selected list, drag and drop the visualizations in the order that you want, or select a visualization and click the up and down arrows to move it.
    Search the available visualizations.
    In the Search field, enter a string to search for. A visualization matches the search if the string appears anywhere in the visualization name.
    Only the matching visualizations appear in the Available list.
    Filter the available visualizations.
    Click the Additional search options button, and then select your filter parameters. You can filter either on the visualization type or on the data items that are used in each visualization.
    Only the matching visualizations appear in the Available list.
    When you have finished selecting your visualizations, click OK.
  3. Select the location where you want to save the report, and then click Save.
  4. Click OK to return to the explorer, or select Open the report now, and click OK to view the report in the designer.
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