topic Re: Report Distribution in SAS Visual Analytics

Report Distribution

avinesh — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 09:08:34 GMT

HI All

How to distribute reports to targeted recipients based on the breaks?.

For example, I have a sales report with group breaks on regions. Each sales manager in the recipient list could receive information on just his or her respective region.?

Re: Report Distribution

MichelleHomes — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 09:53:18 GMT

Hi Avinesh,

Can you please explain what you mean by "group breaks on regions". Do you mean having 1 report that will render only the summary information for the logged in sales manager? This means manager A, responsible for region A will see a report summarised for region A and manager B, responsible for region B when logged into the same report will see the values for region B?

If this is what you are after then you may want to look at the SAS Visual Analytics Administration Guide to set up row-level security using conditional grants. This is where the requesting user can see only those rows that meet the specified filtering conditions. The condition in this instance could be set up for the groups the managers are in so that the data underlying the report will only return the rows for the region.

I wrote a blog post about this and mentioned it in another thread -

Kind Regards,

Michelle

Re: Report Distribution

avinesh — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 11:16:20 GMT

Hi Michelle,

Thanks for your reply,

Here Daily I want to distribute certain reports through the VA in an excel format nearly 750 recipients, So it's not good idea to set up 750 row-level security using conditional grants.

Could you suggest me any alternative way to distribute reports in .xls format as an attachment.

Re: Report Distribution

MichelleHomes — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 11:43:11 GMT

Hi Avinesh,

Does this mean you don't wish to use SAS Visual Analytics? You've posted your question in the SAS Visual Analytics group hence my response being specific to SAS Visual Analytics.

If you want to produce excel reports and distribute them via email you could do this by using the SAS macro language to create an xls report for each of the 750 recipients based on a look up table of recipient name, region and email address and email the report to them. There is bound to be sample code at http://communities.sas.com and/or SAS papers at http://lexjansen.com

Kind Regards,

Michelle

Re: Report Distribution

PeterWijers — Tue, 30 Dec 2014 13:14:50 GMT

Dear all,

still missing the filter option on login user to create a conditional grand on the data set.

this option would give a huge improvement, as it is already availeble in BI.

with this functionality, these kind of problems could be solved in a simpel way. (Development ?)

greetings Peter

Re: Report Distribution

muralinori_sas — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 01:33:20 GMT

Hi Avinesh,

I agree that setting conditional grants for 750 individuals will be lot of work. Conditional grant with row level security in VA, can set the filter on groups and on individual users. Can the 750 users be put into groups? If so, the conditional grant can be set on groups and the work can be dramatically reduced.

Also, how frequent you may need to change the User/Region info? For a less-frequent-change scenario, grouping can be useful. Since conditional grant is set on group and not the individuals, the users can be moved across the groups without having to change the settings. For a more-frequent-change scenario, some type of script may be necessary to maintain the frequent changes for a big volume of user groups.

Report scheduling will honor row level security and the reports can be distributed in a PDF format and not an excel doc as mentioned in the thread.

Regards,

Murali