What's New in SAS BI Dashboard 4.31
Overview
SAS BI Dashboard 4.31
has the following enhancements and new features:
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features for dashboard designers
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features for business users
Features for Dashboard Designers
In the second maintenance
release of SAS BI Dashboard 4.31, the following enhancements and features
have been added:
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The software offers a new indicator
type called multi-line chart.
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The software offers a new feature
called Bring to Front and Send to Back.
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The dynamic prompt indicator offers
the following features:
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You can specify an optional label.
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You no longer must specify a range.
The default prompt setting is now
Combo box.
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You can specify an All Values selection
for filtering data on a local system or a remote server. This selection
requires that the indicator data source be either a SAS Information
Map or a SAS Stored Process.
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The dynamic text indicator offers
a larger text box.
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When using static labels, you can
specify to remove the drop shadow effect.
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The following KPI indicator gauge
types support custom range color settings:
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When you specify a link from an
indicator or dashboard, the Set Up Link window automatically fills
in the parameters in the Optional Parameter table.
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The spark table indicator offers
the
Hide gauge label setting.
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The following indicators support
the selection of multiple rows or items by the business user. The
multiple selection affects how an interaction displays information
in a related indicator:
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Bar chart with reference lines
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Line chart with reference lines
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You can specify parameters that
can be passed to a dashboard when it is opened. These parameters are
used to set the initial value of the prompts in the dashboard.
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You can specify default parameter
values for any indicator that uses parameters.
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You can add extra information to
data tooltips. All data items appear in the data tooltips.
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Supported formats from the SAS
Stored Process data source are passed through to the indicator.
In SAS BI Dashboard
4.31, the following enhancements and features have been added:
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You create a dashboard interactively
using drag-and-drop to add indicators to a dashboard.
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The software saves files in a tree
folder structure.
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You can search for existing dashboards
and objects and filter a search by a specific type of object.
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You can more easily customize and
size each indicator in a dashboard, as well as the dashboard itself.
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You can set up indicators so that
they interact with each other via events.
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You can open and view multiple
dashboards on different tabs in the dashboard designer workspace.
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You can optimize screen space when
building indicators and dashboards.
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As you design a dashboard, you
can preview different types of indicators to easily decide which indicator
is most appropriate for the data that you are using.
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You can customize fonts, font colors,
and font sizes in a dashboard.
Features for Business Users
In the second maintenance
release of SAS BI Dashboard 4.31, the following enhancements and features
have been added:
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You can set a Favorite for a dashboard
with prompts that saves the current prompt values that you are using
to view the dashboard.
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Depending on how an interaction
is customized, you can select multiple rows or items at once to affect
how information is displayed in a related indicator.
In SAS BI Dashboard
4.31, the following enhancements and features have been added:
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You can run SAS BI Dashboard in
a separate window (the dashboard viewer) rather than in the SAS Information
Delivery Portal. When run in the dashboard viewer, the software offers
more functionality than when displayed in the SAS Information Delivery
Portal.
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You can zoom in and view details
in a dashboard.
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You can create comments for indicators
in a dashboard.
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You can create and manage personal
favorites.
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The software offers new indicator
types, such as waterfall chart, vector plot, and spark table, which
can display a table with spark lines.
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The software can brush (interactively
highlight) data within an indicator. Also, indicators can interact
with each other.
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