SAS VA on Viya - how to disable the welcome tour on first logon?

[bheinsius]

Hi,

My client has a web page with links to his VA reports.

He wants to migrate seamlessly from VA 7.4 to VA 8.5 on Viya.

When a user is directed to a report on VA on Viya for the first time, he is presented the Welcome tour.

Can this be disabled?

Bart

[Anand_V]

I am not sure if this is the same tour as you login to Hub (Drive) You can disable it using the steps below:

EDIT: I think its the same tour across all the applications. I would suggest you to try this one and see if it works.

Control the Availability of the Product Tour

Administrators can prevent the product tour from being displayed.

The settings are found in SAS Environment Manager:

/SASDrive_capabilities/allowWelcomeTour

If allowWelcomeTour is prohibited, then the product tour is not displayed automatically when the user accesses SAS Drive

/SASDrive_capabilities/allowWelcomeTourMenu

If allowWelcomeTourMenu is prohibited, then the product tour is not available from the main menu.

To disable either setting, follow these steps:

1. Sign in as an Administrator, and switch to Manage Environment.
2. Select Rules ( ).
3. Search for sasdrive.
4. Right-click the setting and select Edit.
5. Select the Principal type and, if appropriate, the Principal.
6. Change Rule Type to Prohibit.
7. Click Save.

[bheinsius]

Thanks Anand, that seems to block the Welcome Tour indeed.

Before the Welcome Tour however, there is the Welcome to SAS "tour" that I also want to keep from showing up:

At https://support.sas.com/kb/64/546.html if found this:

When logging in to the SAS Drive for the first time, users see a Welcome page that provides an opportunity to set preferences such as a profile picture, a language, and a theme.

To disable this Welcome screen, you can add the sas-welcome=false parameter to the URL, as shown in this example:

http://<hostname>:<port>/SASDrive?sas-welcome=false

But this doesn't seem to work for a direct report link.

Any ideas?

[KianSin]

Hi bheinsius, 

Appending the sas-welcome to SASReportViewer as below seem to work for me.
Hope it work for you too.

http://demo.sas.com/SASReportViewer/?reportUri=%2Freports%2Freports%2Fce6213fe-160e-47b5-8903-a962989ddb10&page=vi6&reportViewOnly=true&appSwitcherDisabled=true&sas-welcome=false

https://documentation.sas.com/?docsetId=vavwr&docsetTarget=p0l4zt68r3id4wn1fk3y3kconfg4.htm&docsetVe...

[bheinsius]

Hi KianSin,

Thanks but it does not work for me, I keep getting the Welcome page.

-Bart

[KianSin]

Hi Bart,
In that case, better to check with sas support to see if any other options or setting available.
Cheers.

[bheinsius · Accepted solution]

I checked with SAS Support and they replied that the documentation is incorrect.

This does not seem to be well documented in SAS doc VA 7.5 Reports: 'Using URL Parameters to View a Report'.

Also SAS Note 64546 does not seem to be correct.

What I did find to work is the following:

Change:

http://sasviya35.eom.local/links/resources/report?uri=%2Freports%2Freports%2F1cfe024b-e6d3-4b65-8231...

into:

http://sasviya35.eom.local/SASVisualAnalytics/?reportUri=%2Freports%2Freports%2F1cfe024b-e6d3-4b65-8...

 And this indeed works.