Specifying Your Preferences for the Classic SAS Visual Analytics Home Page

All of your preferences persist between sessions. Preferences are not available for a user with guest access.
Specify Global Preferences Using the Classic Home Page
Specify the SAS Visual Analytics General Preferences Using the Classic Home Page
Specify Your Preferences for the Classic Home Page

Specify Global Preferences Using the Classic Home Page

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 classic 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. Specify your preferences.
    • Select a User locale to specify your language and geographic region.
      Note: If you change the User locale preference, then you must sign out and sign in to SAS Visual Analytics for the change to take effect.
      Tip
      If you receive distributed reports, it is recommended that you set the User locale preference. The report distribution feature does not have access to the browser locale, so it depends on the locale specified for the User locale. For more information, see Distributing Reports.
    • 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.
    • Click Reset to show all warning and confirmation messages.
  4. Click OK to apply your changes.

Specify the SAS Visual Analytics General Preferences Using the Classic Home Page

Using the SAS Visual Analytics classic home page, you can specify your general preferences for SAS Visual Analytics. Preferences are saved on a per-user basis.
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 zero and a maximum of 25. The default setting is 10 items.
    Click Clear History to reset your history.
  4. Click OK to apply your changes.

Specify Your Preferences for the Classic Home Page

To specify preferences that are specific to the classic 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, SAS reports (2G), visual explorations, or a SAS Visual Statistics project) for your initial screen. (SAS Visual Statistics is licensed separately.) If you select a report in the Choose an Item window, then you might be able to click the Down Arrow button beside the OK button to select either View (Visual Analytics Viewer) or Edit (Visual Analytics Designer). The available content types and the options for opening reports depend on the SAS products that your site has licensed and how they are configured.
  4. Specify Order the actions associated with a content type preferences. Select a Content type, and then use the arrow keys to specify the Order of actions. This preference also affects the order of actions in the object inspector’s toolbar.
    This preference also determines which application opens when you click on a link to a report in an e-mail message. For example, suppose that you specify Edit - SAS Visual Analytics Designer as the first item in the list of actions for the SAS report (2G) content type. Then, you receive an e-mail message with a link to a report. When you click the link to the report, it is displayed in the designer.
  5. Click OK to apply your changes.
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Last updated: January 8, 2019