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SAS Information Delivery Portal

About the SAS Information Delivery Portal

In SAS 9.2, there have been two releases of the SAS Information Delivery Portal. The release that you are upgrading to depends on when you placed your order. Review your Software Order E-mail to determine which release of the SAS Information Delivery Portal is in your order. Then review the topic for the 4.2 or 4.3 release.

SAS Information Delivery Portal 4.2

General Differences in the User Interface

The following changes can cause differences in the portal:

To comply with a stricter security model, the portal no longer has a Public Kiosk. All portal users must be authenticated. When you upgrade from an earlier release, the contents of your Public Kiosk become the first portal page.
The Alerts portlet has been renamed the Stored Process Alerts portlet. This change avoids possible confusion with a new general-purpose alerts portlet that is included with the SAS Enterprise BI Server package. The behavior of the Stored Process Alerts portlet has not changed.
The portal uses a new common logon interface to authenticate users. This change results in a different logon and logoff flow. For example, by default no Logon page appears after you log off.

Migrated Portlets

The following changes affect portlets that have been migrated:

Due to infrastructure changes to the portal, custom-developed portlets require code changes. These changes are described in Developing Portlets for the SAS Information Delivery Portal.
Migrated WebDAV content and the WebDAV graph portlet use a new SAS Content Server instead of a Xythos WebFile Server.
Migrated navigator portlets might display locations that are no longer documented. The documentation for the SAS Information Delivery Portal 4.2 describes a SAS Folders tree, while the documentation for the SAS Information Delivery Portal 2.0 described a root-level folder called the BIP Tree.

Publication Channels

The following changes affect SAS Publication Channels:

Users might need to re-create subscriber profiles and subscriptions for channels that have been migrated.
Due to stricter security enforcement, users cannot create subscriber profiles by default. For a user to create subscriber profiles, an administrator must grant permissions to the user in SAS Management Console. Security is described in SAS Intelligence Platform: Security Administration Guide.
SAS reports cannot be published.
The channels to which users subscribe are automatically added to their Publication Channel Subscriptions portlets only if the related profiles have been defined with a delivery mechanism of Portal.

SAS Information Delivery Portal 4.3

The following considerations apply to the SAS Information Delivery Portal 4.3 customers who have used the SAS Information Delivery Portal 4.2 or earlier releases.

Depending on the software that is installed at your site, the portal now uses SAS Web Report Studio or the SAS Web Report Viewer to display SAS Information Maps.
Data explorations are no longer available from the portal. Any data explorations from earlier versions of SAS are converted to reports.
The Information Map Viewer portlet is no longer available. You can use the new report portlet to display reports with data from information maps. Any Information Map Viewer portlets from previous releases of SAS are converted to report portlets.
Publishing SAS Information Maps is no longer supported.

If you are upgrading from the 4.2 release, see the SAS Information Delivery Portal topic in Planning for Maintenance Releases and Product Upgrades for SAS 9.2 at http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/whatsdiff/63928/HTML/default/idp43.htm.

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