Report links enable single-step access to a report or web page that is related to
a report that you are currently viewing. For example, you might be looking at a
bar chart that has sales information for each geographical region of your company. If you click
the bar for the Northeast region, then a report link associated with the graph could
take you to a different report that provides information about employees in each region.
You can click
in the top left corner of a destination report to
return to the previous report.
Using SAS Visual Analytics
Designer (the designer), you can add a link from a report object to
another report, to a specific section or an info window in the current
report, or to an external URL. If a destination report contains multiple
sections, then you are able (when defining the link) to choose the
initial section of the destination report that you want to open first.
When a report has an info window, you can provide additional information to a user
who is viewing the report. For example, you might want a list table to provide additional
information for a bar chart, or you might want to provide additional text about what
is displayed in the data
for a particular report object. In the SAS Visual Analytics Viewer (the viewer), a
user double-clicks the data (for example, a bar, a bubble, a pie
slice, a table row, and so on) in a report object that has an info window, and then the
additional information is displayed in a new window in the viewer.
For more information,
see Overview of Report Sections and Info Windows.
Linking has elements of both a filter and an interaction. A
report section that is the target of a link is filtered by the values that are selected in the linked
report object.