Overview of Report Sections and Info Windows

Any report in SAS Visual Analytics Designer (the designer) can have multiple sections. (Sections are like pages.) Multiple sections can be used to present different views of the data to the person who views the report. Each section has one or more data sources. You can have one or more report objects in a section. There is no limit to the number of sections in a report.

Using the designer, you can add a link from a report object to a specific section in the current report. For more information, see Create a Link to One or More Sections in a Report.

Section prompts are controls that are placed in the special row area above the report objects on the canvas. A section prompt automatically filters all of the other report objects in the same section, as long as the report object uses the same data source as the section prompt control. For more information, see Use a Control to Create a Section Prompt.

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.

Info windows can be created only in the designer. A report can have one or more info windows, which are displayed as private tabs in the designer. Info windows are identified by the icon on the tab above the canvas. Info windows can have one or more report objects. You must provide a link to an info window from an existing report object to display a new window in the viewer.