Overview of Linking

Report links enable single-step access to a report or web page that is related to a report that you are currently viewing. For example, you might be looking at a bar chart that has sales information for each geographical region of your company. If you click the bar for the Northeast region, then a report link associated with the graph could take you to a different report that provides information about employees in each region. You can click in the top left corner of a destination report to return to the previous report.

Using SAS Visual Analytics Designer (the designer), you can add a link from a report object to another report, to a specific section in the current report, or to an external URL. If a destination report contains multiple sections, then you are able (when defining the link) to choose the initial section of the destination report that you want to open first.

Linking has elements of both a filter and an interaction. A report section that is the target of a link is filtered by the values that are selected in the linked report object.

Imported box plots and heat maps with a relational category measure and imported forecast plots can be the source of section, report, or external links.