What’s New in SAS Visual Analytics 7.4

SAS Visual Analytics Designer (the designer) has dynamic text, improved calculations, and enhanced prompted filter controls, parameters, report links, and section links.

The modern SAS Visual Analytics Viewer (the viewer) now contains most of the features that the classic viewer had, so many users can switch to using the modern viewer.

Enhanced printing features enable you to have page breaks in the PDF for list tables and to show the filter context for filter controls. Another new feature enables the same footer to be printed on every page of a report. For example, you can have the same legal statement on each page in all of your company’s reports. The customized footer is also displayed in reports that are distributed using the designer. (This feature must be enabled by a SAS administrator using SAS Management Console.) For more information, see the SAS Visual Analytics: Administration Guide.

Importing data from Teradata no longer requires a user name and password.

A new dynamic text feature, which enables you to display a measure value in a large font. The dynamic text can display the last date that an in-memory table was updated. It can display the value of a parameter or the value of a category data item associated with a filter control.

Calculations have been enhanced. The distinct count option ignores missing values. You can specify a reset-to-zero offset for time-based calculations, which enables you to adjust for a fiscal calendar or another calendar that does not start on January 1. Time period calculations are not restricted to the applied filter view of data.

Parameters have been enhanced. You can now have parameters with multiple values, which enables you to use them in a list control. And, parameters can now be based on date and datetime formats.

There are now cascading prompts. Filter controls placed at the report level and the section level can now include dependencies.

You can now synchronize prompt values and parameters across linked reports.

The CumulativePeriod operator for aggregated measures now enables you to customize the starting month for each year (for example, to calculate year-to-date based on the fiscal year for your company).

Periodic operators for aggregated measures have a new parameter that enables them to be calculated before datetime filters are applied.

Slider controls have two new properties that enable you to set dynamic minimum and maximum values for the slider. The dynamic minimum and maximum values automatically adjust to the current data query.

Custom shape files for geo maps are now supported. For more information about custom polygon data, see the SAS Visual Analytics: Administration Guide.

Data can be exported to Microsoft Excel or to a CSV file.

An image of a graph can be exported to a PNG file.

The context of a report filter can be displayed.

There is now an option to expand all hierarchies in crosstabs.

Pages (or sections) in a report can be navigated using tabs.

You can select all or clear all selections for list prompt controls using the right mouse button.

You can sort on graphs.

There is a redesigned landing page, which includes new features. For example, you can e-mail and print a report from the landing page without actually opening the report.