What Is the Xplore Sample Web Application?

The Xplore sample application demonstrates how you can take your SAS environment into the world of the Web. Xplore is built using a variety of SAS programming tools including the SAS/IntrNet suite of Web tools. Using the Application Dispatcher together with the Web Publishing Tools, Xplore can dynamically access a variety of SAS data and file types for reporting, generating graphics, and performing drill-down analysis on the Web.

You can use Xplore as is, or if you are an expert user, you can use the Xplore application as a model for your own applications. All of the source code for Xplore is included in the WEBSAMP catalog in your SAS/IntrNet SAMPLIB library (created when you install the SAS/IntrNet Server).

The Xplore interface consists of two HTML frames.

The left frame is a listing of SAS libraries, catalogs, and their members. From the left frame, you can

expand or collapse one or more library and catalog lists
select the member that you want to display or work with in the right frame.

Note: When you run Xplore from an Internet Explorer 4.0 or later Web browser, you can expand and collapse library and catalog lists more quickly.

The right frame initially contains overview information about the Xplore application. As you drill down through the libraries and catalogs in the left frame, the documentation in the right frame is replaced by output or by dialog boxes that enable you to

specify which variables you want to include and display
specify the order in which to display variables in a table
download data to a local spreadsheet application
drill down on data sets that are created by the SUMMARY procedure
view thin-client graphics that chart data sets that are created by PROC SUMMARY
display the contents of a SAS/EIS application database
display most catalog entries.