Solved: Re: Best practice to integrate VA Reports in SAS BI Portal

bheinsius · Posted 07-19-2015 10:13 AM

Hi,

I don't see a VA Reports portlet or something like that in the SAS BI Portal.

Are there any best practices out there on how to integrate SAS VA reports in a SAS BI Portal?

A complicating factor in my case may be that VA lives on another metadata server than the SAS BI Portal.

thanks,

Bart H

bheerschop · Posted 09-13-2016 09:29 AM

Hi Juan,

Thanks for the suggestion. jQuery did not work.

I've found an elegant solution for this issue:

1) Create an URL Display Portlet in SAS Information Delivery Portal

2) Add the URL to the VA-report. This URL has to be in the following form:

http://myVAserver.com:7980/SASVisualAnalyticsViewer/VisualAnalyticsViewer.jsp?reportName=<insert report name here>&reportPath=<insert report path here>&type=Report.BI&section=vi1&appSwitcherDisabled=true&reportViewOnly=true&propertiesEnabled=false&commentsEnabled=false

Regards,

Berry

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justin_sas · Posted 07-29-2015 03:06 PM

Hey Bart,

You can embed the viewer into the portal or use links to the VA reports.

As you aren't sharing the metadata or mid tier, the users will most likely have to re-authenticate unless you have single sign on for both.

If you choose to share the metadata and mid tier the authentication issue disappears.

Cheers,

Justin

bheinsius · Posted 09-03-2016 10:34 AM

Hi,

A customer asked me this question (again).

So I (re)tried but i can't get VA 7.3 reports to show in my 94M3 IDP URL display portlets.

HTML5 viewer keeps spinning it's progress indicator, the flash report viewer does nothing at all.

Has anyone got this working?

Bart

JuanS_OCS · Posted 09-06-2016 07:43 AM

Hi,

I never tried, also never required to do it. But I did it for other kind of webpages and software solutions. This is a very general question on web developing.

What method are you using to include the SAS VA report? Maybe if you describe it, it could help to understand better the problem.

In other hand, some additional remarks:

- To use the developer tools on Firefox, Chrome or even IE will help you to understand that is happening on the background.

- Probably you are using the iframes. if you use the current ways to embed webpages, I guess that would increase your chance of success. THose methods can be summarized in to:

A) jQuery

<html> 
  <head> 
    <script src="jquery.js"></script> 
    <script> 
    $(function(){
      $("#includedContent").load("b.html"); 
    });
    </script> 
  </head> 

  <body> 
     <div id="includedContent"></div>
  </body> 
</html>

B) HTML5

<object name="foo" type="text/html" data="foo.inc"></object>

or:

<embed type="text/html" src="foo.inc">

bheerschop · Posted 09-13-2016 09:29 AM