Importing data from Twitter or Facebook to SAS Cloud Analytic Services (CAS) fails. This issue impacts all releases of SAS® Visual Analytics, SAS® Event Stream Processing, and SAS® Data Explorer including the embedded Data Explorer in SAS® Environment Manager, SAS® Model Manager, and other SAS Viya applications. These errors occur because the social media connectors are no longer supported.
Click the Hot Fix tab in this note for a link to instructions about accessing and applying the software update.
The hot fix for SAS® Viya® 3.5 removes the Facebook and Twitter import functionality from the user interface. Users who wish to import Twitter or Facebook data are encouraged to use third-party tools to extract the data into CSV format and then import the CSV file.
Note: SAS Visual Analytics on SAS® 9.4 continues to show the social media connectors in the Import Data dialog box even though they are no longer supported.
The following errors occur as soon as you click the Obtain Access Code button when selecting to import Twitter data:
The following errors occur as soon as you click the Import Item or the Import All button when selecting to import Facebook data:
The error message is followed by a View Details link. Clicking View Details will show an error similar to the following examples:
Product Family | Product | System | Product Release | SAS Release | ||
Reported | Fixed* | Reported | Fixed* | |||
SAS System | SAS Visual Analytics | Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 7.4 | 9.4 TS1M6 | ||
Linux for x64 | 7.4 | 9.4 TS1M6 | ||||
SAS System | SAS Viya | Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 3.4 | Viya | ||
Linux for x64 | 3.4 | 2020.1 | Viya | Viya | ||
SAS System | SAS Event Stream Processing Engine | Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 5.2 | |||
Linux for x64 | 5.2 |
Viya on Windows: An update for this issue is available for SAS Viya 3.5. For instructions on how to access and apply software updates, see the Updating Your SAS Viya software section in the SAS Viya 3.5 for Windows Deployment Guide at
http://documentation.sas.com/?softwareId=administration&softwareVersion=3.5&softwareContextId=softwareUpdatesWinViya on Linux: An update for this issue is available for SAS Viya 3.5. For instructions on how to access and apply software updates, see the Updating Your SAS Viya software section in the SAS Viya 3.5 for Linux Deployment Guide at
http://documentation.sas.com/?softwareId=administration&softwareVersion=3.5&softwareContextId=softwareUpdatesAn update for this issue is available for SAS Visual Investigator 10.6. For instructions on how to access and apply these software updates, see the documentation links at the top of
https://tshf.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/HF2/Viya_VI_10_6_home.html#65602Type: | Problem Note |
Priority: | high |
Date Modified: | 2022-12-08 12:50:44 |
Date Created: | 2020-02-24 15:29:51 |