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SAS Visual Analytics List Control to be able to be collapsed, and to have a Text search within it

Status: Suggestion Under Review Submitted by Fluorite | Level 6 on ‎11-13-2023 05:29 PM
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Visualisation tools such as Tableau, allow a drop down list that is multi select, and has a text search box within it. Can this be implemented for SAS VA. The current List Control in SAS VA is not design friendly on a dashboard, as it takes up too much space, and cannot be text searched. In Tableau, a dashboard could have 10 or more drop down lists in a small area of the dashboard, because they collapse, and are useful for finding an

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Stu_SAS
SAS Employee
SAS Employee
‎11-29-2023 09:46 AM
‎11-29-2023 09:46 AM
Status changed to: Suggestion Under Review

Hey @Actuality! Thank you for the suggestion! The most recent version of Visual Analytics does have text searching within multi-select list controls, but they cannot be collapsed unless you place them within a prompt container. A feature to make them collapsible is a great idea. I'll bring it to our UX team to look into.

Actuality
Fluorite | Level 6
Fluorite | Level 6
‎11-29-2023 05:41 PM
‎11-29-2023 05:41 PM

Hi @Stu_SAS - how do I find out what release of SAS Visual Analytics I have. All it tells me is release 8.5.2 on SAS Viya release V.03.05

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Stu_SAS
SAS Employee
SAS Employee
‎11-29-2023 05:51 PM
‎11-29-2023 05:51 PM

It looks like you found it 🙂 You are using Visual Analytics 8.5.2 on Viya 3.5. The version is found by opening the menu in the top right-hand corner of the screen, then selecting "About." You should see a pop-up window as shown below.

 

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Text searching in list controls was added in 2020.1.1 .

 

SASKiwi
PROC Star
PROC Star
‎11-29-2023 05:55 PM
‎11-29-2023 05:55 PM

@Actuality - In my version of VA, there's this menu icon in the top right containing the "About" option which reports the version:

SASKiwi_0-1701298532024.png

 

Actuality
Fluorite | Level 6
Fluorite | Level 6
‎11-29-2023 05:56 PM
‎11-29-2023 05:56 PM

@Stu_SAS my list control doesn't seem to have text searching 

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Stu_SAS
SAS Employee
SAS Employee
‎11-29-2023 06:26 PM
‎11-29-2023 06:26 PM

@Actuality that is correct. Version 8.5.2 does not have list control text searching as it was added in a later version (2020.1.1). SAS switched to a monthly release cadence starting in 2020 and has named its versions based on that monthly cadence. You can, however, use a text input and use it to search for the text in a list control as a workaround. You can replicate most of the functionality using parameters. Check out my video on parameters to see how to do this at 3:07:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iMtoJXDZVRk&pp=ygUcUGFyYW1ldGVycyB2aXN1YWwgQW5hbHl0aWNzIA%3D%3D

 

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