topic Re: SAS visual analytics autoload data in subfolders in SAS Visual Analytics

SAS visual analytics autoload data in subfolders

ANLYNG — Thu, 09 Nov 2017 19:08:05 GMT

Hi,

We are running sas VA 7.3 on windows. I am a new administrator on it.

We got a lot of data from different areas which we now loads to a single folder (autoload) on VA.

Is it possible or what is best practice to put data in more folders which could load into memory (as subfolders) e.g. users need to drill down in the subfolders to access data? do I need another server context (is that possible in the windows version ??). I could be interesting if I could put security on the folders as well.

Thanks in advance.

Re: SAS visual analytics autoload data in subfolders

alexal — Thu, 09 Nov 2017 19:16:58 GMT

@ANLYNG,

The autoload functionality doesn't support loading data from subfolders. You have to configure multiple autoload processes to utilize subfolders.

Re: SAS visual analytics autoload data in subfolders

JuanS_OCS — Thu, 09 Nov 2017 19:27:17 GMT

Hello @ANLYNG,

you can, as long as the folders maintain the folder structure (Append, Unload, Logs, Formats). You can nest autoload folders in the file system and in the metadata folders. Besides this, indeed, each autoload folder/subfolder will be a new Autoload process.

Please read this great blog post:

https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/2016/04/04/sas-visual-analytics-autoload-configuration-made-easy/

Re: SAS visual analytics autoload data in subfolders

ANLYNG — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 14:26:42 GMT

Thanks for the tip. This is a great solution.