This KB article explains where you can find information about setting commonly used SAS Web Report Studio properties. These properties are set using either the Configuration Manager in SAS® Management Console, or the LocalProperties.xml file. The documentation indicates which method is appropriate.
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| Area | Description | 9.4 Documentation | 9.3 Documentation | 9.2 Documentation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Interface customization | Prevent the product title, report name, and company logo from being displayed in the SAS Web Report Studio application banner. | See the topic "Hide Banner Properties for SAS Web Report Studio" in the SAS Intelligence Platform: Web Administration Guide. | ||
| Customize the initial display of the left pane so that it is always open in a new session, always closed in a new session, or set depending on the individual user's last session. | See the topic "Configure the Display of Left Pane in SAS Web Report Studio" in the SAS Intelligence Platform: Web Administration Guide. | |||
| Replace the default product logo and product title in the SAS Web Report Studio application banner with your own. | See the topic "Customize the Product and Browser Window Titles for SAS Web Report Studio" in the SAS Intelligence Platform: Web Administration Guide. | |||
| Report customization | Specify custom style sheets. | See the topic "Customizing Report Styles for SAS Web Report Studio" in the SAS Intelligence Platform: Web Administration Guide. | ||
| Add a disclaimer message at the bottom of every table and graph. | See the topic "Add Disclaimer Text to Graphs and Tables" in the SAS Intelligence Platform: Web Administration Guide. | |||
| Increase the number of tuples that can be displayed in a relational crosstabulation table. | SAS Note 12424, ""Size of ROLAP dataset too large" message received in SAS Web Report Studio" | |||
| Control column wrapping. | SAS Note 40621, "Column values might wrap or display vertically when displaying UTF-8-encoded data in SAS Web Report Studio" | |||
| Suppress linking for subtotals (available beginning 4.31_M2). | SAS Note 40708, "Selecting a subtotal value in a linked crosstabulation table might return incorrect query results" | not applicable | ||
| Display dimension names and measure captions as they are defined in the cube (available beginning 4.4_M3). | SAS Note 55096, "Managing the display of dimension names and measure captions when a cube is opened directly in SAS Web Report Studio" | not applicable | ||
| Filtering | Set the maximum number of filter values that can be displayed when report creators define a filter, or set the maximum number of prompt values that can be loaded when report viewers click the Get Values button for dynamic prompts. | See the topic "Set Maximum Values for Report Filters" in the SAS Intelligence Platform: Web Administration Guide. | ||
| Display more than 100 values at a time for a dynamic prompt. | SAS Note 38661, "'Maximum number of values to display' property for a dynamic prompt is not enforced by SAS web applications" | |||
| Manage the default behavior of prompt values (available beginning 4.31_M2). | SAS Note 40605, "Managing the default behavior of prompt values for a SAS Web Report Studio report" | not applicable | ||
| Remove the STRIP function from filters, which is inserted automatically to remove leading and trailing blanks on character fields on a filter expression. | SAS Note 18461, "Removing the STRIP function from filters in SAS Web Report Studio" | |||
| Specify a 24-hour clock for a date picker (available beginning 4.4_M1). | SAS Note 52659, "In SAS Web Report Studio, using the date picker for a prompt might generate an 'invalid response' error when the browser language is not English" | not applicable | ||
| Graphs | Globally change the maximum number of columns and rows to display at one time. | SAS Note 12961, "Changing the maximum number of rows and columns displayed in a table before scrolling is enabled in SAS Web Report Studio" | ||
| Prevent values that are included in the Other slice from appearing in the legend of a Pie chart based on OLAP data. | SAS Note 39734, "Pie chart legend includes values that are combined into the Other slice for OLAP-based SAS Web Report Studio reports" | |||
| Increase the maximum size for graphs at the application level. | SAS Note 42954, "SAS Web Report Studio might not pass prompt values from a linked graph to a target report if the graph is not large enough to display the legend" | |||
| Exporting | Prevent users who have the Export capability from exporting the entire report. | SAS Note 44090, "SAS Web Report Studio export capability enables users to export reports and export data from individual objects" | ||
| Reduce the number of queries that are required to satisfy the export request (applies to versions earlier than 4.2_M1). | not applicable | SAS Note 34796, "Multiple queries might be generated when exporting large reports in SAS Web Report Studio" | ||
| Include the report name and filter information with exported content (available beginning 4.31_M2). | SAS Note 46243, "Including the report name and filter information when exporting data from a graph or table from SAS Web Report Studio to Microsoft Excel" | not applicable | ||
| Improve performance when exporting OLAP data (applies to 4.31_M2 and beginning with 4.4_M2). | SAS Note 52956, "SAS Web Report Studio might perform slowly when you attempt to export OLAP data to Microsoft Excel" | not applicable | ||
| E-mailing | Include standard text with e-mailed reports (available beginning 4.31_M2). | See the topic "Enable Standard Text in E-Mail Messages with Generated URLs for Reports" in the SAS Intelligence Platform: Web Administration Guide. | not applicable | |
| Manage the number of report definition snapshots that can be created (available beginning 4.31_M2). | See the topic "Increase the Limit for the Creation and Storage of Report Definition Snapshots" in the SAS Intelligence Platform: Web Administration Guide. | not applicable | ||
| OLAP | Capture values selected for a parent-level filter in an OLAP-based information map. | SAS Note 39937, "Enabling logging to capture selected filter values for a parent-level filter defined in an OLAP-based information map" | ||
| Searching | Search folders in smaller groups when the total number of folders exceeds a specified number. | SAS Note 50744, "Performance of the SAS® Metadata Server might decrease significantly when you use the search feature in SAS Web Report Studio" | ||
| Integration with other products | Increase the number of requests that can be processed simultaneously when opening reports using the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office. | SAS Note 39806, "Increasing the number of requests that can be processed simultaneously when opening reports using the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office" | ||
| Administration: Logging | Display information about SAS Web Report Studio properties as a WARNING in the SAS Web Report Studio log. This information is written out when the web application server is started. | See the topic "Configure the Analysis of SAS Web Report Studio Properties" in the SAS Intelligence Platform: Web Administration Guide. | ||
| Display information about the scheduling configuration as a WARNING in the SAS Web Report Studio log. This information is written out when the web application server is started. | See the topic "Administering Logging for SAS Web Applications" in the SAS Intelligence Platform: Middle-Tier Administration Guide. | |||
| Manage the rollover mechanism for the Key User Action log. | See the topic "Manage the Key User Action Log File" in the SAS Intelligence Platform: Web Administration Guide. | |||
| Turn off WARNING messages in the log. (Using this property will prevent you from seeing the analysis of SAS Web Report Studio properties in the log.) | SAS Note 41639, "'Transfer to other than WRS by user' warning message might appear in the SAS Web Report Studio log" | |||
| Turn off the warning that appears in the log when an unsupported browser is used. | SAS Note 21029, "SAS Web Report Studio displays a warning message if you are using an unsupported browser" | |||
| Administration: Managing Queries | Prevent a session from ending while a query is being processed (available beginning 4.31_M2). | SAS Note 48960, "SAS Web Report Studio might time-out while a query is still processing" | not applicable | |
| Set a time-out limit for queries. | SAS Note 45424, "Setting a time-out limit for queries that are submitted by SAS Web Report Studio" | |||
| Administration: Localization | Enable SAS Web Report Studio to correctly display and print bidirectional content. | See the topic "Display and Print Bidirectional Content from SAS Web Report Studio" in the SAS Intelligence Platform: Web Administration Guide. | ||
| Ensure that fonts in different languages are displayed correctly when the report is converted to PDF. | SAS Note 49401, "Understanding font availability when scheduling or printing from SAS Web Report Studio" | |||
| Administration: General | Specify a site-wide, preferred folder for saving reports (available beginning 4.31_M2). | See the topic "Create a Company Preferred Folder for Reports" in the SAS Intelligence Platform: Web Administration Guide. | not applicable | |
| Change the time at which nightly maintenance is performed. | SAS Note 16750, "Changing the time that SAS Web Report Studio performs nightly maintenance on the query cache" | |||
| Alert users by displaying a warning message before they are logged out of their inactive sessions. | See the topic "Configuring the Display of a Warning Message for Inactive User Sessions" in the SAS Intelligence Platform: Middle-Tier Administration Guide. | See the topic "Configuring the Display of a Warning Message for Inactive User Sessions" in the SAS Intelligence Platform: Web Administration Guide. | ||
| Ensure successful resolution of HTTP session requests in a secure environment (any environment with a front-end processor). | See the topic "Resolve HTTP Session Requests in a Secure Environment" in the SAS Intelligence Platform: Middle-Tier Administration Guide. | See the topic "Configuring HTTP Sessions in Environments With Proxy Configurations" in the SAS Intelligence Platform: Web Administration Guide. | ||
| Suppress error details in the application. | SAS Note 48073, "Suppressing error details in SAS Web Report Studio" | not applicable | ||
| Improve performance when searching. | SAS Note 50744, "Performance of the SAS Metadata Server might decrease significantly when you use the search feature in SAS Web Report Studio" | |||
| Change the location of the temporary workspace folder. | SAS Note 37128, "Changing the temporary workspace folder for SAS Web Report Studio and SAS Web Report Viewer" | |||