Introduction to the SAS Information Delivery Portal 2.0
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- alert
- an automatic notification of an electronic event that is of interest to the recipient.
- Alerts Portlet
- a portlet that lists alert messages that have been issued to you.
- background
- a mode of computer processing that does not require user interaction and which allows users to perform multiple tasks on the computer concurrently. In the SAS Information Delivery Portal, some SAS stored processes run in the background so that you can perform other portal tasks during processing.
- banner
- a colored, rectangular area that appears at the top of some Web pages. Banners typically contain titles and navigation links.
- bookmark
- a pointer to a specific content item on the SAS Information Delivery Portal which you have saved for quick and easy retrieval.
- bookmarks portlet
- a portlet that displays bookmarks that you have created. From the bookmarks portlet, you can retrieve bookmarked items, publish them to other users, create new portlets, and remove bookmarks that you no longer need.
- channel
- a virtual communication path for distributing information. In SAS, a channel is identified with a particular topic (just as a television channel is identified with a particular radio frequency). Using the features of the Publishing Framework, authorized users or applications can publish digital content to the channel, and authorized users and applications can subscribe to the channel in order to receive the content. See also publish, subscribe.
- collection portlet
- a portlet that contains a list of portal content items. The items can be of any content type or combination of types.
- content administrator
- See group content administrator.
- custom portlet
- a portlet in the SAS Information Delivery Portal that does not fit in any of the portal's standard portlet categories (collection, navigation, bookmarks, and alert). Some custom portlets simply display data, text, or graphics, and other custom portlets have interactive features.
- data exploration
- a document that contains bookmarks. Data explorations enable you to group bookmarks that are based on the same data source.
- deploy
- to implement software in a distributed environment. Deployment typically involves installing, configuring, and testing software over a computing network.
- group content
- content that a group of portal users can access. Users who are designated as group content administrators can use the SAS Information Delivery portal's Share option to convert their personal content to group content. Group content can be edited and deleted only by the group content administrator who created it.
- group content administrator
- a portal user who is authorized to share pages, portlets, and other portal content items with all portal users or with other users in a group. After an item is shared, only the group content administrator can edit or delete the item.
- group page
- a page that has been shared with a particular group of portal users. The label Shared, followed by the name of the group, appears in the upper right corner of group pages.
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HTML fragment
- an HTML file that does not include opening and closing HTML tags, HEAD tags, or BODY tags and which can be displayed successfully in the cell of an HTML table.
- information map
- a collection of data items and filters that describes and provides a business-relevant view of physical data. Users of query and reporting applications such as SAS Web Report Studio can easily build business reports by using information maps as the building blocks for their reports.
- inline frame (IFRAME)
- a browser feature that enables an HTML page to be displayed within its own rectangle anywhere on another HTML page. Inline frames are created by using the HTML IFRAME tag. When necessary, inline frames contain horizontal and vertical scrollbars to enable users to view all of the page's contents within the frame. See also URL display portlet.
- JavaServer page
- See JSP (JavaServer page).
- JSP (JavaServer page)
- a type of servlet that enables users to create Java classes through HTML.
- keyword
- a word that is used to describe a content item in the SAS Information Delivery Portal and which users can enter in the portal's Search tool in order to find the item.
- link
- (1) a portal content item that can be accessed using a URL; (2) a character string in a portal that you can click in order to initiate an action.
- locale
- a value that reflects the language, local conventions, and culture for a geographic region. Local conventions can include specific formatting rules for dates, times, and numbers, and a currency symbol for the country or region. Some examples of locale values are French_Canada, Portuguese_Brazil, and Chinese_Singapore.
- navigation bar
- a row of tabs or buttons on a Web page which contains links to other content. In the SAS Information Delivery Portal, the navigation bar contains links to the pages in your personal portal. The navigation bar in the SAS Information Delivery Portal can appear across the top or on the left side of the browser window.
- navigation portlet
- a portlet that displays content items in a hierarchical (tree) arrangement of folders and subfolders. Examples of this content might include stored processes, information maps, files that are stored in WebDAV repositories, and SAS reports.
- package
- a container for data that has been generated or collected for delivery to consumers by the SAS Publishing Framework. Packages can contain SAS files (SAS catalogs; SAS data sets; various types of SAS databases, including cubes; and SAS SQL views), binary files (such as Excel, GIF, JPG, PDF, PowerPoint and Word files), HTML files (including ODS output), reference strings (such as URLs), text files (such as SAS programs), and viewer files (HTML templates that format SAS file items for viewing). Packages also contain metadata such as a description, an abstract, and user-specified name/value pairs.
- page
- an HTML file on the World Wide Web. A page is usually one of many pages that comprise a Web site.
- permission
- the type of access that a user or group has to a resource. The permission defines what the user or group can do with the resource. Examples of permissions are ReadMetadata and WriteMetadata.
- personal content
- content that a portal user creates for his or her own use. As a portal user, you can create your own pages, your own collection portlets, and your own links. After you create these items, you can access them from the portal, edit them, remove them from your personal portal, use the Search tool to find them, or delete them permanently. Other portal users cannot access your personal content.
- personal portal
- a portal that has been personalized for or by a specific user.
- personalization
- the process of customizing a Web application or Web page to meet the needs and preferences of an individual user.
- portal
- a Web application that enables users to access Web sites, data, documents, applications, and other digital content from a single, easily accessible user interface. A portal's personalization features enable each user to configure and organize the interface to meet individual or role-based needs. See also portlet.
- portlet
- a Web component that is managed by a Web application and which is aggregated with other portlets to form a page within the application. Portlets can process requests from the user and generate dynamic content.
- predefined page
- a portal page that has already been created. Predefined pages might include public pages, which are available to all users, pages that have been shared with a group of users, and pages that you created.
- predefined portlet
- a portlet that has already been created. Predefined portlets might include public portlets, which are available to all users, portlets that have been shared with a group of users, and collection portlets that you created.
- public content
- content that all SAS Information Delivery portal users can access. Users who are designated as content administrators can use the SAS Information Delivery portal's Share tool to convert their personal content to public content. Public content can be edited and deleted only by the content administrator who created it.
- Public Kiosk
- a public page that is displayed when a user starts the SAS Information Delivery Portal but has not yet logged on.
- public page
- a page that all SAS Information Delivery portal users are authorized to access.
- publication channel
- an information repository that has been established using the SAS Publishing Framework and which can be used to publish information to users and applications. See also publish.
- publish
- to deliver electronic information, such as SAS files (including SAS data sets, SAS catalogs, and SAS data views), other digital content, and system-generated events to one or more destinations. These destinations can include e-mail addresses, message queues, publication channels and subscribers, WebDAV-compliant servers, and archive locations.
- Publishing Framework
- a component of SAS Integration Technologies that enables both users and applications to publish SAS files (including data sets, catalogs, and database views), other digital content, and system- generated events to a variety of destinations. The Publishing Framework also provides tools that enable both users and applications to receive and process published information.
- report
- a graph or text that is generated by running a report definition.
See also SAS report.
- SAS Foundation Services
- a set of core infrastructure services that programmers can use in developing distributed applications that are integrated with the SAS platform. These services provide basic underlying functions that are common to many applications. These functions include making client connections to SAS application servers, dynamic service discovery, user authentication, profile management, session context management, metadata and content repository access, activity logging, event management, information publishing, and stored process execution.
- SAS Information Maps
- See information map.
- SAS publication channel
- See publication channel.
- SAS report
- a report that has been stored in the SAS Report Model format. A SAS report might be available for viewing in the portal if your organization has installed SAS Web Report Studio.
- SAS Stored Process
- a SAS program that is stored in a central location and which can be executed from the SAS Information Delivery portal at the user's request. When a stored process is executed, it creates a report that includes the most current data that is available. Stored processes can display input forms that enable users to customize the contents of reports.
- share
- to make a SAS Information Delivery Portal page accessible to all portal users or to all users in a specific group.
- stored process
- See SAS Stored Process.
- subscribe
- to sign up to receive electronic content that is published to a SAS publication channel.
- syndication channel
- a channel that provides syndicated, continuously updated Web content from a content provider.
- theme
- a collection of specifications (for example, colors, fonts, and font styles) and graphics that control the appearance of an application.
- URL (Uniform Resource Locator)
- a character string that is used by a Web browser or other software application to access or identify a resource on the Internet or on an intranet. The resource could be a Web page, an electronic image file, an audio file, a JavaServer page, or any other type of electronic object. The full form of a URL specifies which communications protocol to use for accessing the resource, as well as the directory path and filename of the resource.
- URL display portlet
- a portlet that accesses a specific URL and displays the returned information inside the portlet's borders. If the URL points to a complete HTML page, then the portlet can be set up to display the URL contents inside an inline frame (IFRAME). If the URL points to an HTML fragment that is allowed by the portal's security policies, then the portlet can display the URL contents without an IFRAME. See also portlet, inline frame (IFRAME), HTML fragment.
- Web Infrastructure Kit
- a set of infrastructure components that can be used to develop new portlets for the SAS Information Delivery Portal, to customize the SAS Information Delivery Portal, or to build new Web applications using portal technology. The kit includes common Java components as well as SAS Foundation Services. It is included with SAS Integration Technologies.
- WebDAV (Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning)
- a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol that enables users to collaboratively edit and manage files on remote Web servers.