About Report Objects

After selecting your data source and data items, add one or more report objects to display the results. The SAS Visual Analytics Designer (the designer) provides report objects for all of your reports. (You can also select data after you add report objects to the canvas.) Report objects in the designer are grouped into types on the Objects tab in the left pane and in the Insert menu: Tables, Graphs, Gauges, Controls, Containers, Other, and Custom. Custom is displayed only if one or more custom graphs are saved in your My Folder location or if custom graphs are selected in the Show or Hide Objects window. For more information, see Show or Hide Report Objects in the Objects Tab.

For a definition and a picture of each report object, see Gallery of Report Objects.

The following table lists the available table objects:

Icon	Table Type
	List Table
	Crosstab

The following table lists the default graph objects:

Icon	Graph Type
	Bar Chart
	Targeted Bar Chart
	Waterfall Chart
	Line Chart
	Pie Chart
	Scatter Plot
	Time Series Plot
	Bubble Plot
	Treemap
	Dual Axis Bar Chart
	Dual Axis Line Chart
	Dual Axis Bar-Line Chart
	Dual Axis Time Series Plot

Note: You can display the additional graph objects using the Show or Hide Objects window. For more information, see Show or Hide Report Objects in the Objects Tab. The additional graph objects are displayed in the gallery in the graph builder.

The following table lists the available controls:

Icon	Control Type
	Drop-down List
	List
	Button Bar
	Text Input
	Slider

The following table lists the available containers:

Icon	Container Type
	Vertical Container
	Horizontal Container
	Stack Container
	Prompt Container

The following table lists the other report objects:

Icon	Other Type
	Text
	Image
	Stored Process
	Geo Bubble Map
	Geo Coordinate Map
	Geo Region Map
	Gauge
	Word Cloud

Report objects of the Custom type are created using the graph builder. They are identified by the Custom Graph Template

icon. For more information, see Using Custom Graphs to Display Results.

In the designer, you have access to report objects from SAS Visual Analytics Explorer (the explorer). You can open a histogram, heat map, box plot, or correlation matrix in a report that has been exported from the explorer. However, you cannot create new histograms, heat maps, box plots, or correlation matrices in the designer.