Overview

With version 4.3, SAS BI Dashboard has been completely rewritten, which means that there are some major usage differences between version 4.3 and version 4.2. This SAS note explains some of those differences, and provides a single point of reference to other usage notes that highlight the differences between version 4.2 and version 4.3.

Displaying content in Version 4.3

SAS BI Dashboard 4.3 is displayed in the Adobe Flash player. With this change, the dashboard environment is much more user friendly, interactive, and feature rich. This change to the environment makes a big difference for displaying your dashboard content. For example, in version 4.2, it was very common to have multiple Dashboard Portlets on a single Portal page. With version 4.3, each Dashboard Portlet renders a Flash Player, which means that using multiple portlets will cause performance problems, and possibly crash your browser.

For this reason, use only one Dashboard portlet on a portal page at a time. Although the Dashboard Portlet displays a single dashboard at a time, version 4.3 is designed to allow much greater flexibility for displaying multiple indicators in a single dashboard. With version 4.2, you had very little control to position the different indicators in a dashboard. In version 4.3, you can place indicators with exact pixel placement.

Upgrading to Version 4.3

When you upgrade to version 4.3 from version 4.2, your 4.2 content is converted. Everything is moved, including Ranges, Data Models (called "Indicator Data Objects" in version 4.3), Indicators, and Dashboards. However, you should plan to take advantage of the new interactive features in version 4.3. Specifically, you should create new Dashboard objects. (You can use your existing Indicators, Data and Ranges.)

Also, for portal pages that contain multiple Dashboards, instead modify the page to display a single version 4.3 Dashboard. Start by creating a Dashboard that would occupy the whole portal page, then position the Indicators as you would like.

Samples for Version 4.3

SAS Note 41168 provides a starting point to access information and samples that will help you use version 4.3.

Related SAS Notes

40665 - SAS BI Dashboard content migrated from 4.2 to 4.3 might require user interaction to display correctly

40797 - SAS BI Dashboard 4.3 does not support the display of HTML content

40668 - SAS BI Dashboard 4.3 charts might not display labels clearly after migration

40670 - Problems editing dashboards in SAS BI Dashboard 4.3

40782 - Gauged Graph display type in SAS BI Dashboard 4.3 might have varying bar widths

40800 - Links from indicators to data explorations might not work after migrating SAS BI Dashboard content from 4.2 to 4.3

40801 - All data columns are selected in data models migrated from SAS BI Dashboard 4.2 to 4.3

40842 - Linking to a portlet from SAS BI Dashboard 4.3 is not supported

40992 - Understanding how multiple configuration folders in SAS BI Dashboard 4.2 might affect upgrading to SAS BI Dashboard 4.3

41001 - Alert e-mails from graph indicators might not display formatted axis values in SAS BI Dashboard 4.3

41156 - Migrated SAS BI Dashboard content does not support user customizations

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