Overview of Interactions

Interactions are used to direct a report viewer’s attention to specific results in a report. Interactions allow data to be subset to reduce the amount of data, and enables users to understand it within a particular context.
The interactions view in SAS Visual Analytics Designer (the designer) enables report designers to specify which interactions they would like to add to tables, graphs, gauges, and controls in a report.
There are these types of interactions:
filter
is used to restrict the data that is returned from a query to a data source. Filters are simply a set of rules or conditions that you specify to subset the data that is displayed in a table or graph. The goal is to display only the data that you need to see to perform your analysis.
brush
is short for data brushing, which enables you to show the same data selected simultaneously in two or more tables, graphs, or controls. Brushing highlights a percentage that reflects the number of shared observations in the data set. Brushing does not highlight a percentage that corresponds to the aggregated value. The brushed data has the same appearance in each object, which makes the data easily apparent to report viewers.
Tables, graphs, and gauges can be the source of an interaction, with the exception of time series plots. Report objects that use detail data cannot be the source of an interaction. Controls that are used on the canvas can also be the source of an interaction. Controls that are used as section prompts are treated as automatic filters and are not displayed in the interactions view.
The Interactions tab in the right pane enables you to create interactions and links.
Note: Interactions are available only for report objects in the same section.
Note: Report linking is a type of interaction. The report section that is the target of the link is subset by the values selected in the linked report object. For more information, see Overview of Linking.