Who Uses SAS Design-Time Controls?

If your task is to analyze data, construct reports, and surface that content to the Web, then SAS Design-Time Controls can make life easier for you. The Design-Time Controls are for users who understand both the requirements for the desired Web pages and the underlying data structures upon which the pages are based. When used in conjunction with the SAS/ACCESS products, the Design-Time Controls also enable you to do Web-based reporting on data that resides in external data sources such as Oracle, DB2, and Microsoft Excel.

In the past, creating Web pages with a SAS server often meant having to write HTML and SAS code by hand. The Design-Time Controls make both tasks easier by enabling you to use a WYSIWYG editor to write the HTML and by providing you with dialogs that automatically generate the SAS code.

The Design-Time Controls can be of benefit to you regardless of whether your Web pages are created by one or more than one person. A designer can lay out the backgrounds, color schemes, and graphics for a Web page, and a content provider can, using the Design-Time Controls, insert SAS content in the appropriate locations on the page. Each control encapsulates its content, making it safe for anyone to edit the Web page and to avoid disturbing either the layout or SAS content.