topic Re: Dynamic Filter on Most Recent Date Available in Data in SAS Visual Analytics

Dynamic Filter on Most Recent Date Available in Data

MahRaz — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 16:07:33 GMT

Hi dear members!

My objective is to Filter a "Gauge" object in a way to show a measure only for the most recent date available in the data. The filter need to be dynamic as the data will get updated every few days.

Problem is that Max operator is not available for Filtering. Do you have any idea how I can do this?

Thank you in advance!

Mahraz

Re: Dynamic Filter on Most Recent Date Available in Data

TejaSurapaneni — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 07:53:09 GMT

Hello Mahraz,

In present versions (to 7.3) we don't have any option to get Max date (or As on date Values).., This is the most basic requirement........

The best way is that you have to Calculate Max date in your backend data.

after loading the data in VA environment put a condition (Calculated).

i.e.,

If date = Max date

Return (Your measure)

else (.).

You will get Max date or As on date value and it is dynamic.

Hope this helps..,

Thanks & Regards,

Teja Surapaneni

Re: Dynamic Filter on Most Recent Date Available in Data

Sam_SAS — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 14:19:27 GMT

Hello Mahraz,

As Teja says, there is not an easy way to do this currently. Many customers have requested this, so the development team is aware of the demand.

Thanks,
Sam

Re: Dynamic Filter on Most Recent Date Available in Data

MahRaz — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 09:32:22 GMT

Thank you Teja! It is helpful to know there is no standard way

Re: Dynamic Filter on Most Recent Date Available in Data

daviddavid — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 12:13:56 GMT

Any update on this question? Important feature!

Work-arounds such as rank is really suboptimal

( http://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/2016/10/24/use-rank-in-sas-visual-analytics-to-display-the-last-date-month-or-rolling-window/ )

Re: Dynamic Filter on Most Recent Date Available in Data

Sam_SAS — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 13:02:05 GMT

Hello David,

There is a new feature in 7.4 that might be helpful.

In 7.4, you can create a slider prompt with a date assigned to it, then on the Properties tab you can set Value=Single and Set value to dynamic maximum. This will dynamically select the latest value for the date data item.

Is that helpful?

Thanks,

Sam