https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Visual-Analytics/How-to-fetch-metadata-for-quot-About-this-report-quot/m-p/803295#M15907 <P>In Visual Analytics, when opening a report and selecting "About this report", a window pops-up showing Name of report, Modified by and date, Created by and date and Folder.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>There is also a field in "About this report" named Overview, that is possible to edit. My idea is that this field would be perfect for miscallaneous metadata info, like Owner of report and Contact info. Then, I would like to fetch what value is in "Overview" with a program in order to get a list output.</P><P>Does somebody please have an idea of where the value of this field "Overview" is stored in metadata of the report and how to fetch it?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>I am running VA version 8.5.2 on Viya version 3.5.</P> Wed, 30 Mar 2022 10:49:42 GMT viswmmo 2022-03-30T10:49:42Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Visual-Analytics/How-to-fetch-metadata-for-quot-About-this-report-quot/m-p/803295#M15907 <P>In Visual Analytics, when opening a report and selecting "About this report", a window pops-up showing Name of report, Modified by and date, Created by and date and Folder.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>There is also a field in "About this report" named Overview, that is possible to edit. My idea is that this field would be perfect for miscallaneous metadata info, like Owner of report and Contact info. Then, I would like to fetch what value is in "Overview" with a program in order to get a list output.</P><P>Does somebody please have an idea of where the value of this field "Overview" is stored in metadata of the report and how to fetch it?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>I am running VA version 8.5.2 on Viya version 3.5.</P> Wed, 30 Mar 2022 10:49:42 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Visual-Analytics/How-to-fetch-metadata-for-quot-About-this-report-quot/m-p/803295#M15907 viswmmo 2022-03-30T10:49:42Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Visual-Analytics/How-to-fetch-metadata-for-quot-About-this-report-quot/m-p/803574#M15913 <P>It looks like the terminology is a bit different in 8.5.2. I see no way to export this information about the report.&nbsp;</P> Wed, 23 Mar 2022 14:27:20 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Visual-Analytics/How-to-fetch-metadata-for-quot-About-this-report-quot/m-p/803574#M15913 Madelyn_SAS 2022-03-23T14:27:20Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Visual-Analytics/How-to-fetch-metadata-for-quot-About-this-report-quot/m-p/803622#M15914 <P>The SAS Viya Reports API (<A href="https://developer.sas.com/apis/rest/Visualization/#get-a-report" target="_blank">https://developer.sas.com/apis/rest/Visualization/#get-a-report</A>) allows you to retrieve metadata about reports, including:</P> <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="RobbyP_0-1648058571854.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://communities.sas.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/69726i703C08E23DE3797A/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="RobbyP_0-1648058571854.png" alt="RobbyP_0-1648058571854.png" /></span></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> Wed, 23 Mar 2022 18:04:48 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Visual-Analytics/How-to-fetch-metadata-for-quot-About-this-report-quot/m-p/803622#M15914 RobbyP 2022-03-23T18:04:48Z