SAS Web Report Studio 4.3 :: Planning for Maintenance Releases and Product Upgrades for SAS(R) 9.2

New Features in SAS Web Report Studio 4.3

Here are some of the new features in SAS Web Report Studio 4.3:

improved layout for report headers and footers.
enhanced graph features. Skins are available for graphs, so you can change the appearance. A bubble plot has also been added.
the ability to view and print comments with the report output.
the ability to copy sections of reports.
the ability to select multiple publication channels when you schedule a report and the ability for multiple users to make multiple schedules for a single report.
three new UDP ports for IP scheduling: 7570, 7571, and 7572. For more information, see the “Pre-installation Checklists for Ports for SAS” topic in the SAS Intelligence Platform: Installation and Configuration Guide.

For more information about the new features and enhancements in SAS Web Report Studio 4.3, see the following resources:

the “What's New in SAS Web Report Studio 4.3” topic that is available at http://support.sas.com/documentation/onlinedoc/wrs
In the SAS Intelligence Platform: Web Application Administration Guide, see the following topics:
- “SAS Web Report Studio Administration” in the What's New topic
- “New Features in the Administration of SAS Web Report Studio 4.3”

Upgrading to SAS Web Report Studio 4.3

To upgrade to SAS Web Report Studio 4.3, run the SAS Deployment Wizard. This wizard automatically detects if there are SAS software products in your order that are more recent than the products you have deployed on your machine. For example, if your order includes a new release of the SAS Information Delivery Portal and SAS Web Report Studio, then both of these products are upgraded when you run the SAS Deployment Wizard. You do not need to run the SAS Deployment Wizard separately for each product upgrade. Also, if you have not applied the third maintenance release for SAS 9.2, then these updates are installed as well. If your SAS order contains any new products that were not in your current deployment, you must rerun the SAS Deployment Wizard to add the new products to your deployment.

For instructions on how to upgrade to SAS Web Report Studio 4.3, see Upgrading SAS Products.

Updating Favorites in Your Web Browser

After the deployment of this new release, you must change 4.2 to 4.3 in the resolved URL that you use to open the product. The updated URL is http://server:port/SASLogon/index.jsp?_sasapp=Web+Report+Studio+4.3&.

If you saved the URL for the 4.2 release as a Favorites link in a Web browser, then this link is broken when you upgrade to the 4.3 release. You must re-create this favorite for the 4.3 release. You can also access SAS Web Report Studio 4.3 by using this unresolved link: http://server:port/SASWebReportStudio.

Uninstalling SAS Web Report Studio 4.2

After you validate the product upgrade, you can uninstall SAS Web Report Studio 4.2.

If you specified a custom report style in SAS Web Report Studio, then complete either of the following steps before removing the configuration directories for SAS Web Report Studio 4.2:

Open the SAS-configuration-directory\Lev1\Web\SASWebReportStudio4.3\customer\LocalProperties.xml file. In the path for the CSS file that contains the custom style definition, change all references of SASWebReportStudio4.2 to SASWebReportStudio4.3.
In SAS Management Console, you might have used the Configuration Manager to specify the sas.wrs.style.css property. Modify the path of the sas.wrs.style.css property to change all references of SASWebReportStudio4.2 to SASWebReportStudio4.3.

After you uninstall SAS Web Report Studio 4.2, remove the EAR files for the 4.2 release from the SAS-configuration-directory/Lev1/Web/Staging/Backup directory.