What Are SAS Design-Time Controls?

SAS Design-Time Controls are add-in components for your HTML editor that help you to easily add SAS content to your Web pages. Design-Time Controls act like page-component wizards that help you to build parts of your Web page. The controls present a user-friendly, intuitive interface that insulates you from much of the complexity that comes along with sophisticated Web content. You get to control the look and feel of your Web pages in a WYSIWYG editor and at the same time access and surface the power of SAS software on your Web page. Our Design-Time Controls are very powerful and can generate many forms of Web page content including HTML, JavaScript, Java applets, ActiveX controls, and ASP and JSP code.

With the Design-Time Controls, you use the user interface of your HTML editor to insert a control into your Web page. The control assists you by presenting a dialog of choices and settings. After you make selections and close the dialog, the Design-Time Control writes the appropriate SAS content onto your Web page. After you publish your Web page, anyone can browse the content that you created. Users who view your page through a Web browser do not have to have Design-Time Controls installed on their machines in order to see the pages that you created.

This following controls are available with this release of our software:

Control Name	Generated Web Page Content
SAS Critical Success Factor	Critical success factor Java applet
SAS MDDB Report	Multidimensional database report in HTML form
SAS Stored Program	Output from your SAS/IntrNet program
SAS Table	HTML table
SAS Tabular Report	HTML table from PROC TABULATE
SAS Thin-Client Graphics	SAS graphic Java applet or ActiveX control
SAS Treeview	Java applet to visualize hierarchical data