topic Implementing User-Defined Formats in SAS Visual Analytics

Implementing User-Defined Formats

StevenG — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 14:35:32 GMT

Hi all,

I have been struggling to find out much information on making user defined formats available to use in VA. So far all I have found which appears to be relevant are these links:

40103 - Frequently asked questions about making user-defined formats available in a SAS® Business Intelligence deployment

47100 - Support for user-defined formats in SAS® Visual Analytics Explorer, SAS® Visual Analytics Designer, and SAS® Visual Data Builder

The VA user guide and the SAS Intelligence Platform: Data Administration Guide both seem to be not very helpful; after having my formats.sas7bcat file placed in the suggested SAS-config-dir/Lev1/SASApp/SASEnvironment/SASFormats I have not been able to find any documentation telling me how to use them, neither does it seem straightforward. I don't think it can be done through VA, and I have access to but am not familiar with the SAS Management Console.

If anybody could help me out it would be greatly appreciated

Thanks,

Steven

Re: Implementing User-Defined Formats

StevenG — Fri, 19 Sep 2014 11:24:27 GMT

Problem has been solved, it was due to the format being created in 32bit and the server running 64 bit.

Re: Implementing User-Defined Formats

balraj — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:27:42 GMT

Hi @StevenG,

How you've converted the made it work in the 64-bit environment. Can you please share the steps.

I'm running SAS VA on 64-bit operating system and have create the formats.sas7dcat file at the specified directory but unable find proper links on how to use it.

Regards,

Balraj P