Managing Your Subscriptions

The SAS Information Delivery Portal enables you to subscribe to information that is transmitted through channels, each of which provides a particular category of information. By subscribing to a channel, you become a recipient of information that is published through that channel.

The portal provides access to two types of channels:

• SAS publication channels, which are set up through the SAS Publishing Framework. As a portal user, you have a subscriber profile that defines the method of information transport from this framework. You can set up filters in your subscriber profile to include and exclude particular types of information. For details, see Managing Your Subscriber Profiles.

• Content channels, which provide syndicated content from information providers such as news services.

Subscribing to (and Unsubscribing from) Channels:

To subscribe to (or unsubscribe from) a channel:

1. If you have not already done so, open the SAS Information Delivery Portal, log on with your user name and password, and click Personalize on the toolbar. The Personalize window appears.

2. At the prompt Select what to personalize, choose Subscriptions from the drop-down list. The Subscriptions control panel appears showing your current subscriptions (if any) and the additional channels that are available for subscription.

3. To subscribe to a new channel:

   1. Under Available Channels, find the desired channel.

   2. Click opposite the desired channel.

   3. If you have more than one subscriber profile, a list of your profiles will be displayed. Click the radio button for the profile that you want to use.

   4. The channel will disappear from the Available Channels list and will appear under Current Subscriptions. You can now proceed by choosing another Personalize function, choosing another task, or opening another window.

   To unsubscribe from a channel:

   1. Under Current Subscriptions, find the channel from which you want to unsubscribe.

   2. Click opposite the corresponding channel.

   3. The channel will be removed from the Current Subscriptions list and will be placed under Available Channels. You can now proceed by choosing another Personalize function, choosing another task, or opening another window.

Use the Personalize tool to add lists of your current subscriptions to your portal. For details, see Personalizing Your Desktop. For information on viewing channel content through the portal, see Viewing Channel Content.