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What's New in SAS Web Report Studio 2.1
Overview
A more intuitive workflow is one of the key enhancements of the latest version of SAS Web Report Studio, which also offers improved charting, filtering, and sorting.
Details
Note: Only authorized users can create and edit reports. If you have questions about your authorization, contact your system administrator.
Workflow
- Switch between viewing and editing a report with one click.
- Navigate sections by using tabs. Also, a new Section menu is available in the Edit Report view for creating new sections, deleting sections, moving sections, and renaming sections.
- A context-sensitive Report menu is available in the edit or view mode. Menu items include: Quick Report, Page Setup, Print, View Scheduled Reports, and Export Report.
- Information entered into the Report Wizard is automatically displayed in the Edit Report view so that you can further fine-tune your selections. For example, you can add more objects to the layout such as images and text. You also can add report links to objects and specify conditional highlighting for tables and graphs.
Creation
- Link text, images, table values, graph values, and group break values to another report or to a Web page.
- Include dynamic text in headers and footers.
- Combine measure data items from multidimensional data sources in order to create a custom data item. (Previously, custom data items could only be created from relational data sources.)
- Generate quick reports. A quick report uses one crosstabulation table and one bar chart to present the results of a query that is based on four standard data items from a selected data source. The data items are the first three categories and the first measure in the data source.
- Create one-section report templates. Report templates contain layout information but do not contain data. A report template is one of four starting points for creating reports.
- Use the same data item from a relational data source more than once in a single report section. For measures, you can apply a different summarization method to each.
- For category data items in a relational data source, create filters that prompt users for values.
- Create filters that use the BETWEEN operator. The BETWEEN operator is available for relational category data items for the parent query and for measures when the filter is applied to an individual table or graph.
- Create filters that identify missing values. Filters for missing values are supported for category data items for the parent query and for measure data items for individual tables and graphs.
Presentation
- Highlight table and graph values that meet certain conditions. For tables, you can highlight using colors, formatted text, and images. For graphs, shading is used to identify values that match the specified condition.
- Gain more control over the display of tables by specifying a size in pixels and by indicating wrapping preferences.
- Gain more control of the display of graphs by specifying a size. Also, set styles and colors for elements such as legends, axis labels, and titles.
- Synchronize objects in the report layout so that all objects share category-based filters, sorting, drilling, and expanding.
- Format text in text objects by applying a font, font size, font style, background color, foreground color, and alignment. Depending on the data items selected for the report section, text objects might also include prompt and measure values.
- Insert image objects into the layout of a report. You can include images from a repository or from your local machine into the body of a report that is based on standard or custom data items. If you select an image from your local machine, it is saved to the repository. You can add tool-tip text to an image as well as link the image to another report or a Web page.
- Choose to display applied filter information when viewing a report. Filter information will also be included in the printed report.
- Add percentage calculations, totals, and comparisons to summary values to a table.
- Rotate crosstabulation tables that use relational data. (Previously, rotation was only available for crosstabulation tables that used multidimensional data sources.)
- When viewing a list table, you can specify a sorting priority for up to three columns. (Previously, setting a sorting priority was only available when creating or editing a report.)
- Specify formatting for totals and subtotals.
Graphs
- Include progressive bar charts in reports. A progressive bar chart shows how the initial value of a measure data item increases or decreases during a series of operations or transactions. See also bar chart.
- Include scatter plots in reports. A scatter plot is a two- or three-dimensional plot that shows the joint variation of two (or three) data items.
Scheduling
You can schedule reports to run at specified times. Reports that are pre-generated in this way generally render faster than reports that automatically query the data source each time that they are viewed. You also can monitor your own list of scheduled reports to see which reports are running, which reports have failed, and which reports have executed.
Exporting
Export the contents of an entire report to a zipped file. The contents of the file can be opened in a Web browser.