topic Re: SAS VA Dates in SAS Visual Analytics

SAS VA Dates

SAS_1001 — Wed, 03 Jan 2018 17:45:23 GMT

Hello,

I'd like to format dates as follows. I've a month variable created and showing as 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 and I want to format it to January, February, March, ........, December. So how can I format month numeric values in full month name in SAS VA ?

In addition, I need to filter data based on months so how can I create a dynamic month variable. I just need to show data for the last two month from the whole year data ? Month variable is a category.

Thanks in advance !

Re: SAS VA Dates

SASKiwi — Wed, 03 Jan 2018 21:05:16 GMT

In SAS VA you should load "proper" SAS dates - SAS numeric variables with formats like DATE9. That way VA will automatically recognise these variables as dates and then you can use the VA data formatting options including the months as text.

Re: SAS VA Dates

SAS_1001 — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 00:12:28 GMT

I tried but I'm not seeing month as text option. It's showing all numerical functions, such as comma, float, dollar, etc. When I used SAS VA month function from the proper SAS Date, it has created 1,2,3,4, .... as month. Not able to convert them as January, February, ...etc.

Thx.

Re: SAS VA Dates

SASKiwi — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 00:58:22 GMT

This is a screenshot from VA 7.4 of the format options for a SAS date in the Data Source Pane - is this what you are trying?

Re: SAS VA Dates

SAS_1001 — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 02:18:26 GMT

okay, I was looking inside the designer. Thanks for the info.

Re: SAS VA Dates

SASKiwi — Fri, 05 Jan 2018 06:00:02 GMT

Just to clarify the screenshot is from the Designer data source pane