Does anyone know how to change a Dashboard Range Dynamically?

[Felix]

Does anyone know how to change a Dashboard Range Dynamically? I need the numbers to display and they need to change each month. I can type them in manually, but it is very time consuming.

[MDU_BRFkredit]

Hey Felixor or others with similar problem.

I got a solutions delivered from SAS (Falko Schulz), that can update the Dashboard Range. It is base SAS codes that can be scheduled to run monthly/daily etc.

The code uses metadata to update the Dashboard Range:

/*--------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
/* Program: update_bid_43_ranges.sas                                        */
/* Purpose: updates existing range definitions based on a dataset           */
/* Author: Falko.Schulz@sas.com, SAS Institute Australia, 5 Jul 2010        */
/* Modified: Falko.Schulz@sas.com, SAS Institute Australia, 23 Oct 2010     */
/*--------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

%let davRangeFile=Country Sale Range 2.rdx;
%let davPath=http://localhost:8080/SASContentServer/repository/default/sasfolders/Projects/Dashboards/Sales by Country/;
%let davUser=sasadm@saspw;
%let davPass=Orion123;
%let locale=DK;

/* metadata server logon details */
options metaserver="localhost"
  metaport=8561
  metauser="&davUser."
  metapass="&davPass."
  metarepository="Foundation";

/* file reference to the range definition in webDAV */

filename davfile webdav "&davPath." dir user="&davUser." pw="&davPass.";

/* sample - range data */
data rangedata;
input id label $ 4-32 ccode $ 33-47 color $ 48-53 lower upper;
datalines;
1  Well Below Target            belowTarget    d06959 . 100
2  Below Target                 belowTarget    d06959 100 200
3  On Target                    onTarget       f1dc63 200 300
4  Above Target                 aboveTarget    84af5b 300 400
5  Well Above Target            aboveTarget    84af5b 400 .
;
run;

/* re-use first part of the existing file until we find the <Intervals> tag */
data part1;
length doc $32576.;
infile davfile("&davRangeFile.(Range)");
input;
doc=_infile_;
output;
if (compress(_infile_) eq "<Intervals>") then stop;
run;

/* generate the second part based on the range data definition */
data part2(keep=doc);
length doc $32576.;
set rangedata end=last;

if _n_ eq 1 then do;
  doc='<Interval classificationCode="' || trim(ccode) || '" lowerBoundInclusive="false" upperBound="'
    || compress(put(upper,8.)) || '" upperBoundInclusive="false" color="' || trim(color) || '">';
end; else do;
  doc='<Interval classificationCode="' || trim(ccode) || '" lowerBound="' || compress(put(lower,8.)) || '"
            lowerBoundInclusive="true" upperBound="' || compress(put(upper,8.)) || '"
            upperBoundInclusive="false" color="' || trim(color) || '">';
end;
output;

doc= '<LocalizedTextBundle><LocalizedTextLists><LocalizedTextList language="en" country="' || "&locale." || '"><LocalizedTexts><LocalizedText id="name">';output;
doc= '<text>' || trim(label) || '</text>';output;
doc= '</LocalizedText></LocalizedTexts></LocalizedTextList></LocalizedTextLists></LocalizedTextBundle></Interval>';output;

if last then do;
  doc= '</Intervals>';output;
  doc= '</RangeDefinition>';output;
end;
run;

/* combine both parts and write back to webDAV */
data _null_;
set part1 part2;
file davfile("&davRangeFile.(Range)");
put doc;
run;

/* update the metadata object timestamp to initiate refresh of the object in BID */
data _null_;
    length uri $256 conuri $256 val $256 name $256 id $256;
    nobj=0;
    n=1;
    uri="";

    do while (nobj >= 0);
        nobj=metadata_getnobj("omsobj:Transformation?Transformation[@Name='&davRangeFile.' and @PublicType='Range']",n,uri);
        if (nobj >= 0) then do;
      rc=metadata_getattr(uri, "Name", name);
   rc=metadata_getattr(uri, "Id", id);
   rc=metadata_setattr(uri, "Name", name);
      put "Range definition '" name "' [" id "] updated.";
        end;
        n = n + 1;
    end;

run;

/* DEBUG:: dump xml to the log for validation */
data range;
  infile davfile("&davRangeFile.(Range)");
  input;
  put _infile_;
run;

filename davfile;