topic Re: Mobile app SAS communities in SAS Programming

Mobile app SAS communities

ammarhm — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 09:50:19 GMT

Not sure where to post this, moderators feel free to move or remove...

SAS communities has been very helpful in providing answers and access to knowledge.

In a world where everyone is increasingly mobile, it would be great to have access to a SAS communities as a mobile app, so that people can easily ask questions or check answers. I do acknowledge that posting a question is easier on a desktop especially if you want to copy a SAS code or data into the question, but you would imagine that building a mobile app linked to SAS communities as SAS support portal would be a negligible task for a massive enterprise like SAS....

And yes, i know SAS communities webpage is mobile friendly.

Just a thought...

Avid SAS/SAS communities user.

Re: Mobile app SAS communities

ChrisNZ — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 10:11:18 GMT

I suppose the reason you mention is one of the main ones for an app not existing: the usefulness of this community depends heavily on posting code, logs and data, which is typically not available from a phone.

Re: Mobile app SAS communities

andreas_lds — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 12:24:07 GMT

I don't thing an app is necessary at all, the website just needs some tweaks to be useful on a smaller screen. But this is true for almost all existing apps: they just show the inability to create proper websites.