Share an Exploration

Although the primary purpose of exploration is ad hoc visualization, you might want to share your findings. For that reason, exploration is never a dead end.

One way to share the contents of an exploration is to export some or all of its visualizations as a report.

To export an exploration as a report:

On the SAS Visual Analytics home page, double-click an exploration to open it.
Select FileExportExploration as Report from the explorer’s main menu.
In the Export as Report window, clear the check box of any visualization that you do not want to export. Click OK.

Tip
A few types of content (animated bubble plot, treemap that displays additional levels, and correlation data from a scatter plot or heat map) cannot be exported. To share such content, export it as a PDF or save it as an image.
In the Save As window, select My Folder, and accept the default name. Click Save.
In the upper left corner of the explorer, click Home.
In the My Content area of the home page, notice that the new report is not in the Recent list. Only objects that you create or open are in the Recent list. If you want to navigate to the new report, click Browse.

The preceding steps export content to SAS metadata as a report. Here are some other ways to share the contents of an exploration:

Additional Methods for Sharing Exploration Content
Task	How to Initiate
E-mail as a link	From the explorer’s main menu, select FileE-mail.
Export as a PDF	From the explorer’s main menu, select FileExportExploration as PDF.
Save as an image	In a visualization’s toolbar, click , and select Export Image.