topic Re: How to test a Character List Parameter in Visual Analytics in SAS Visual Analytics

How to test a Character List Parameter in Visual Analytics

Joao92 — Fri, 11 May 2018 16:46:35 GMT

Hello Everyone,

I'm using a List Object in a Prompt Section and I have associated a Character List Parameter in that List Object.

So imagine that my list contains Department 1, Department 2, Department 3, and Department N. If I select just the first two departments my parameter value is "Department 1, Department2".

What I want to do now is to create a Calculated Item where I test whether this parameter has selected values or not. I know that this is possible when I'm using single Character Parameters in combination with dropdown lists. But when I try to use a Character List Parameter in the Calculated Item Expression I get an error saying that he is not expecting a Character List Data Type.

NOTE: I'm Using Sas Visual Analytincs 7.4 release

Does anyone know of a solution or a work-around for this?

Thank you in advance!

Re: How to test a Character List Parameter in Visual Analytics

Madelyn_SAS — Fri, 11 May 2018 16:16:19 GMT

The documentation says this about using multi-value parameters in filters and calculated expressions:

"Parameters with multiple values can be used with the In, NotIn, and IsSeT operators in filters and calculated expressions"

Re: How to test a Character List Parameter in Visual Analytics

Joao92 — Fri, 11 May 2018 16:44:26 GMT

Hello Madelyn,

I can only find that in the documentation for the 8.2 release. But I'm still using SAS Visual Analytics 7.4, so I don't have the IsSet operator available. For this specific case I think the In and NotIn operators won't do it but at least I know I can use them in the future.

Thank you very much 🙂