Adding disclaimers to SAS Web Report Studio tables and graphs is sometimes necessary for confidentiality purposes. You can do this easily by using the Configuration Manager available in SAS Management Console 9.2 and up. This is shown to the right. Adding a Table Disclaimer Through SAS Management Console SAS Support provides official documentation...
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SAS Web Report Studio has some features that help can improve the overall appearance or just shake things up a little. You can change the template for individual reports in cases where you need to better highlight an idea. Tip! Check out the Information is Beautiful site for some inspirational ideas about presenting data....
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There are times when you need row numbers on your report. Maybe you are ranking items and you want to be clear that the list is ranked or maybe you have a report viewer who only feels the report is complete when the numbers are present. To add row numbers, right click the table...
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Conditional highlighting, also referred to as traffic lighting, helps report consumers quickly recognize when the data is showing the desired trends based on their targets. Today I’ll talk about the color choices for the highlighting from MS Excel, SAS Web Report Studio, and SAS Stored Processes. Conditional Highlighting Example Web Report Studio allows you...
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Sometimes SAS Web Report Studio needs some dashboard dials and sliders that seems like mission impossible for you. However, add a stored process with the trusty ole’ SAS GKPI procedure to bring the dashboard features to your local report. I know you are wondering – “What is this special magical procedure of which she speaks?”...
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In SAS Web Report Studio, I was trying to create a bar chart that showed the total payments by month. However, the Payment Date was the actual date the company received the payment and as a result the chart had a “play-by-play” action instead of overall results. Turns out that October 16th was a...
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Ok – I”ll just say it. I hate pie charts. If there are more than a few categories – then the user has to interpret the ranking order, it slows them down, and they may loose interest in the report that you so lovingly prepared. Maybe you say – “Tricia, add the numbers! Geez – you’re...
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Do you get a little frustrated by not having all the screen real estate you want when displaying your report? There may be times when you have 13 columns you want to display. The following figure shows an example report where I extended the columns. Before it showed the navigation bar at the top...
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If you only use the default settings when building Web Report Studio report, the results may not be very attractive. For instance in the following report the graphs are different sizes and the spacing between them is awkward. To change the image size, you have to change the settings in the Image Properties....
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When you start a new report in Web Report Studio, you may notice that yellow icons with an exclamation point (!) appear in the work area. This happens when you have not added any data to the objects. In the example below, the first capture shows the empty objects. In the second capture, you...
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