SAS Web Report Studio 4.31 :: SAS(R) 9.3 Guide to Software Updates

New Features in SAS Web Report Studio 4.31

SAS Web Report Studio 4.31 has the same new features and enhancements as SAS Web Report Studio 4.3. The difference between these two releases is that SAS Web Report Studio 4.31 runs on SAS 9.3, and SAS Web Report Studio 4.3 runs on SAS 9.2.

Here are some of the new features in SAS Web Report Studio 4.3:

improved layout for report headers and footers.
enhanced graph features. Skins are available for graphs, so you can change the appearance. A bubble plot has been added.
the ability to view and print comments with the report output.
the ability to copy sections of reports.
the ability to select multiple publication channels when you schedule a report and the ability for multiple users to make multiple schedules for a single report.
three new UDP ports for in-process scheduling: 7570, 7571, and 7572. For more information, see Pre-installation Checklist for Ports for SAS in SAS Intelligence Platform: Installation and Configuration Guide.

For more information about the new features and enhancements in SAS Web Report Studio 4.3, see the “What’s New in SAS Web Report Studio 4.3” topic at http://support.sas.com/documentation/onlinedoc/wrs/.

Upgrading from SAS Web Report Studio 3.1

SAS Web Report Studio 3.1 runs on SAS 9.1.3. The following considerations apply to SAS Web Report 4.31 customers who are upgrading from SAS Web Report Studio 3.1.

A SAS Web Report Studio 3.1 user who had a role of report author might not have the same capabilities after they upgrade to SAS Web Report Studio 4.3. If you no longer have access to a capability in SAS Web Report Studio 4.2, contact your system administrator.
SAS Web Report Studio 4.3 uses a themes architecture, which is also used by other SAS Intelligence Platform clients, such as the SAS Information Delivery Portal. The product-specific method of branding that was available in SAS Web Report Studio 3.1 is no longer supported. Branded areas must be redefined using themes.

For more information, see SAS Web Application Themes and Custom Report Styles in SAS Intelligence Platform: Web Application Administration Guide.
The following changes were made to reports:
- Parent totals for OLAP reports are now defined as totals that retrieve parent values from the data source. (In SAS Web Report Studio 3.1, parent totals were an aggregation.) The new visual totals are derived from the values that are included in the output.
- How relational dates display in line graphs has changed. For example, in SAS Web Report Studio 3.1, lines for two years were overlaid, and the dates along the horizontal axis were continuous (for example, January through December). In SAS Web Report Studio 4.3, the lines appear one before the other, and the dates on the horizontal axis repeat (for example, January through December for the first line and January through December for the second line).
- In SAS Web Report Studio 4.3 and 4.31, each report header and footer is divided into three content areas (left, middle, and right). When you upgrade a report that was created in SAS Web Report Studio 3.1 or 4.2, the existing content in the report header or footer will be placed in the middle content area of the header or footer in the upgraded report.
- In SAS Web Report Studio 4.3, data explorations are converted into reports. During migration, the conversion of data explorations to reports will not succeed if any of the objects are based on cubes until the cube files are rebuilt. If the LoadContent step displays a warning during migration, follow the instructions in the Instructions.html file to build the cube files and modify and re-run the LoadContent scripts.

For more information about how the workflow has changed for building reports, see “SAS Web Report Studio 4.2: Exploring Changes to the Report-Building Workflow” at http://support.sas.com/documentation/onlinedoc/wrs/changereportbldg42/index.html.

Upgrading from SAS Web Report Studio 4.2

In SAS Web Report Studio 4.3 and 4.31, each report header and footer is divided into three content areas (left, middle, and right). When you upgrade a report that was created in SAS Web Report Studio 3.1 or 4.2, the existing content in the report header or footer will be placed in the middle content area of the header or footer in the upgraded report.

In SAS Web Report Studio 4.3, data explorations are converted into reports. During migration, the conversion of data explorations to reports will not succeed if any of the objects are based on cubes until the cube files are rebuilt. If the LoadContent step displays a warning during migration, follow the instructions in the Instructions.html file to build the cube files and modify and re-run the LoadContent scripts.

Upgrading from SAS Web Report Studio 4.3

SAS Web Report Studio 4.3 has the same new features and enhancements as SAS Web Report Studio 4.31. The only difference between these two releases is that SAS Web Report Studio 4.31 runs on SAS 9.3, and SAS Web Report Studio 4.3 runs on SAS 9.2.