VERSION 2025.02

[Noel88]

We have just upgraded to version 2025.02 but a couple of things seem odd to do and I haven't found anyone who can tell me whether this is a setting issue or a change that has been made.

1. Share and collaborate

We've trained our staff to use this as their home page when in Viya eg click on the square of 9 dots and choose Share and Collaborate.  They could previously save and view favorites, see recents etc here. There is now only an Explore and Visualize page and seemingly no way when you have opened a report to get back to a page that shows other reports without closing the open report down. The nine square dots box has no visible option when a report is open. Staff often use multiple reports at the same time. I'm likely missing something obvious but three of us have had a look and can't see how to get back to the explore and visualise page.

2. Recents
 This is now a nightmare as it saves a recent for each instance of opening a report instead of once per report. As we can be building several reports at once and QA'ing someone else's it used to be handy. Now if I am building a report it doesn't take long to get a page full of the same report which is quite pointless. Maybe there was a good reason to do this but we have all found it frustrating at this point. Any way to get VIYA to just show the latest instance of each report or is this an actual change rather than a setting?

[Noel88 · Accepted solution]

OK I've solved number 1. It is now on the right hand side three vertical dots.

[Sam_SAS]

You can also return to the Visual Analytics home page by clicking the application name "SAS Visual Analytics- Explore and Visualize" in the toolbar at the top of the application. From there you can browse and open reports, and switch between the reports you already have open.

[HunterT_SAS]

I am sorry you have encountered this. #2 is an unfortunate bug in version 2025.02 that is fixed in the 2025.04 release. There is no other fix for 2025.02 I'm afraid.

Once you move to 2025.04, the existing duplicated entries in Recents will remain initially but new reports added to the recent list will no longer be duplicated, and over time the list will get back to normal. 

[Noel88]

Thanks for update. Much appreciated.