Is it possible to :
1. create a link in another application or html page that runs a specific VA report
2. If this is possible can parameters be added to the VA report to open the report showing specific information for a location.
For example, information is data entered into a MS SQL database with an application that provides some reporting. What I would like to do is to enable the users of this application to run a VA report only showing a specific geographic boundary (City) that relates to the user rather than just opening the VA report and then having the user select the specific geographic boundary (City) from a drop-down.
Peter
Hi Peter,
FYI, there was a similar discussion about this at
You can get the base report URL by going to File -> Email and potentially you could achieve what you are trying to do with a user-specific geographic boundary with Conditional Grants as I wrote about at Conditional Grants in SAS Visual Analytics I would suggest setting up groups though and have the conditional grant for the group.
For an example on the base report URL, below is the email that I get when I select File -> Email.
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From: Michelle Homes
Modified by: Michelle Homes
Date Modified: Monday, 3 February 2014 09:24:57
If you are unable to access this report by clicking the image, copy and paste the following web address into your web browser.
http://hostname.example.com:7980/SASVisualAnalytics/report?location=%2FVAERS%2FReports%2FVA%2FVaccin...
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With regards to the approach you want to do, I wasn't able to find in the VA documentation any information about this. Perhaps someone from SAS can advise if there is documentation on the structure of the URL, name/value pairs that are possible (example type=Report.BI, section=??? etc) and if it is possible to include custom parameters to specific report object components etc.
Cheers,
Michelle
Hi SAS VA community & SAS staff,
I wanted to follow up on this discussion to see whether it is possible to have a SAS Visual Analytics report within an IFRAME and have parameters passed to it. In my above post I mentioned that when you select File -> Email in the email you get a URL, http://hostname.example.com:7980/SASVisualAnalytics/report?location=%2FVAERS%2FReports%2FVA%2FVaccin... It is clear that name=location, name=type, name=section are possible. What are other valid parameters and possible values? Are these documented, if so, where? And can the name/value pairs be extended to parameters that are used in section prompts too so a VA report can be used in an IFRAME as mentioned is possible with VA 6.3 and 6.4 at https://communities.sas.com/ideas/1506 ?
This may be of interest to others in the community and if anyone else has done this, please share your experiences...
Thanks,
Michelle
Hi Michelle,
some time ago i built a simple web application with an iframe.
Something like this :
<iframe id="myFrame" style="width: 75%; height: 80%; border-width: 1px;" src="http://hostname/SASVisualAnalyticsViewer/VisualAnalyticsViewer_guest.jsp?appSwitcherDisabled=true&re...">
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I only found this documented parameters
SAS(R) Visual Analytics 6.4: User's Guide
But i think you already know this.
For my application i am searching for a parameter to directly set prompts/filters within the url. (?promptName=2014)
So maybe somebody know more
kind regards
Marius
Hi @mariusg,
I have a similar requirement of embedding a SAS VA report into a custom application.
I also used an iframe but the problem is -it is again asking for username and password to login.
I am aware that to achieve this we can use Guest access.
We have a User webanon but that is not working.
How to configure guest access?
Thanks in advance!!
Hi @MichelleHomes,
I'm implementing SAS VA using IFRAME, but the page keeps on loading and is not going further.
Where I'm going wrong.
Any guidance would be very helpful.
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