Usage Note 33318: Each SAS® web application requires a single, unique session between the browser and the middle tier
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Each SAS web application must run in a unique browser session with the middle tier. This design means the following:
- You may not run the application in more than one browser window.
- You may not run the application in multiple tabs in a single browser window.
- You may not choose to open pop-up windows, such as dialog boxes, in tabs in a single browser window.
These restrictions apply to products such as SAS® Visual Analytics on SAS® 9.4, SAS® Visual Analytics on SAS® Viya®, SAS® Web Report Studio, and SAS® Information Delivery Portal.
Note: SAS Visual Analytics has an applications menu that enables you to switch between applications. For example, use the applications menu if you want to work in SAS® Visual Analytics Designer and SAS® Visual Analytics Viewer.
If you attempt to run the web application in multiple browser sessions, you will experience unpredictable application behavior. Here are some examples of behavior that you might encounter. Other problems can also occur.
- When switching between tabs in one browser window or when switching between multiple windows, the application might repeatedly ask you to log on.
- You unexpectedly see a message in one or both browser windows that your session has expired.
- Results requested for a report in one window might instead render in a report that is open in a different window.
- The same report open in more than one window might appear differently in each window. Additional windows might fail to even display the report.
This requirement for a unique browser session is by design. There is no workaround.
Note: You can encounter the behavior in this SAS Note even if the web application is running in two different instances such as Lev1 and Lev2. Specifically, you see the unexpected behavior if the URL for both instances is the same. A possible workaround in this scenario is to use different supported browsers for the two sessions. For example, run one instance in Google Chrome and one instance in Mozilla Firefox.
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | Product Release | SAS Release | ||
| Reported | Fixed* | Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | SAS Web Report Studio | Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 3.1 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 3.1 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 3.1 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 3.1 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 3.1 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 3.1 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 3.1 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 3.1 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 3.1 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 3.1 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 3.1 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 3.1 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||||
| HP-UX IPF | 3.1 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||||
| SAS System | SAS Information Delivery Portal | Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 2.0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 2.0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 2.0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 2.0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 2.0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 2.0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 2.0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 2.0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 2.0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 2.0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 2.0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 2.0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||||
| HP-UX IPF | 2.0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||||
| SAS System | SAS Visual Analytics | Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 7.1 | 9.4 TS1M2 | ||
| Linux for x64 | 7.1 | 9.4 TS1M2 | ||||
| SAS System | SAS Visual Analytics (on SAS Viya) | Linux for x64 | 8.1 | Viya | ||
| Type: | Usage Note |
| Priority: | medium |
| Topic: | Query and Reporting ==> Interactive Querying Query and Reporting Third Party ==> Products ==> Web Browsers |
| Date Modified: | 2020-02-04 12:14:42 |
| Date Created: | 2008-09-16 13:50:37 |