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Enhancements to SAS Publisher

Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) is an emerging industry standard that is based on extensions to HTTP 1.1. It enables package publishers, programmers, and package retrievers to collaborate on the development of files and collections of files on remote Web servers. It also enables publishers to publish packages for delivery to a Web-compliant server.
With the WebDAV delivery type, you can specify several advanced properties. For example, you can specify a collection URL or a parent URL as the storage location for the published package. If you are publishing to a secured server, you must specify an HTTP user ID and an HTTP password. You can specify one or multiple namespaces, or contexts, on a server to which you publish the package. Finally, you can specify a template that contains formatting directives for rendering a specific view of a published package.

FTP and HTTP User ID and Password Properties Support Package Delivery

When you publish packages, you can now include the user ID and password properties that are appropriate to the protocol (FTP or HTTP) for delivery to these delivery types:

archive
WebDAV-compliant server
SAS channel that delivers an archive package by e-mail
archive package that is published to e-mail
archive package that is published to a message queue.

Publishers need a user ID and a password in order to publish to a secured server. In addition to the user ID and password attributes, other advanced attributes can be selected to specify package delivery to the WebDAV and e-mail delivery types.

Additional Properties for the E-mail Delivery Type

Besides rendering package views in HTML format, the viewer processing facility can now render views in text format. A text-formatted view might be necessary if the destination e-mail program does not support the HTML MIME type.
The package publisher can now pass Reply To and From values to the package recipient's e-mail program. The Reply To value enables recipients to return an e-mail message to the package sender, or package publisher, or to some other designated e-mail address. The From value specifies the e-mail address of the package publisher.
The e-mail delivery type now supports the specification of an e-mail address list that can be derived from a SAS data set according to a specific variable. SAS options can be specified for opening a data set.

Additional Properties for the ODS Package Entry Type

An ODS-generated package entry can now reference additional HTML files for inclusion in an ODS package entry. Companion files are typically HTML files and are not ODS-generated files.
A package publisher can now assign a character-set encoding property to an ODS package entry. The encoding is applied when the package is retrieved. The encoding property is necessary only when the host architectures of the publishing host and the retrieving host are incompatible.

URL Package Entry Type Supports Relative URL Specification

In addition to explicitly specifying the appropriate URL prefix type (http://, ftp://, or file:///), you can now specify a URL that is relative to a base URL. For example, if the base URL is www.mycorp.com, then the relative URL ./news/article.html locates article.html in the subdirectory news, which is relative to the base URL.

Data Set Entry Type Supports Data Set Options

SAS options can now be specified for a data set that is being included in a package. The PW= option, which enables package consumers to access a read-protected SAS file when they retrieve a package, might be especially useful.

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