You can use the Custom Category option to organize the values.   http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/vaug/67500/HTML/default/viewer.htm#n133d7vjj5losnn0zber8iw4vzum.htm   Another option is to do it in SAS code.  If the station numbers look like numbers - then change it to a numeric value and create your new category. ... View more

I don't think 4GB is exceptionally large.  The dataset we were using was well over 16 GB on a non-distributed server.   Check if the LASR server has any data that can be removed so your dataset has more space to work.  Many times I see people load multiple copies of the same dataset with a few minor changes.  They don't remove the downlevel datasets - so you will see   Test_data_V1, Test_Data_v2, Test_data_v3, etc.        You might see if you can reduce the size of the dataset.   Reduce the size of the character fields.  Use PROC CONTENTS to review the length.  For instance, we had a field that had survey responses that was set to a length of 50 and the responses were "Yes" and "No".  We reset that size to 8.   Can any columns be removed?  For instance, some people have multiple date fields and the only difference is the formatting.  Here's a blog post where I talk about how to duplicate the values and use formatting inside SAS VA.   We were able to reduce the dataset size nearly in half using this techniques.   ... View more

Manual: I'm sorry I missed your paper - I like the detail into how the Web works with the SAS toolset.    Good job, Tricia ... View more

You can only apply a foreground or background color with the display rules.     You could suggest on the SAS Ballot that SAS VA support custom formats such as the one you are describing.  ... View more

I suspect your data needs to be transposed.  So instead of looking like this:     Wages      Farm         Non-Farm 123            100             23   It needs to be shaped like this:   Income  Source               SubSource        Wages Market   Self-Employee     Farm                     100 Market   Self-Employee     Non-Farm               23     Then you can  build the hierarchy from Income, Source, SubSource and Wages is your measure. ... View more

Is it possible to another column to your table with additional catagorization.  For instance assign the station numbers to groups like (1000-1999, 2000-2999, 3000-3999) or prefilter to remove any stations that have smaller values? I realize this does not change the filters but it may allow you to better catagorize the data so the report drop-down could change it.    Possibly it will just give you some ideas about how to resovle the issue. ... View more

Michelle is on the right track.  Allow me to just add that I've seen that message in these circumstances:   -The underlying dataset was large and took a long time to render.  As a test you can pre-filter it. For instance, if the data has 20 products, just limit it to 1 to see if that influences the time.   -Another time we had some hardware that was starting to fail.  This is less likely to be the cause but is something to be aware of.     ... View more

Make sure you have given sufficient permissions on the LASR server library and LASR server.   The admin manual (v7.3 - chapter 3 Security) lists the required metadata authorizations - you might want to review it to make sure everything is setup correctly.      ... View more

You may not have enough permissions to actually load the data to the LASR Server. Your site administrator should be able to provide the additional permissions.     ... View more

I have not seen a consistent method adopted in organizations - usually just having the objects in different folders seems to serve the purpose. I did notice one customer using "dataset_name_LASR" and "dataset_name_HDFS" to assist with identifying the source.   You may want to think more carefully about the folder structure and metadata folder structure. ... View more

The datasets are copied from a file system or database to the LASR Analytic Server. Since the LASR server is an in-memory location - it confuses many people.  If you have permissions you can access the LASR server with a LIBNAME statement.   If you do not have access to the original source, then you could use the Data Builder to save the dataset into a local location.  This technique is explained in the user documentation.  Otherwise, your site admin should be able to get a copy of the desired dataset.   However if you have created calculations within SAS VA - these calculations are not saved with the dataset. ... View more

Thanks Ahmed - that is a clever idea for the custom graph builder!    I'm planning to document some of the examples for a paper (and possibly a book later) - so I'm specifically looking for uses of bubble plots, scatter plots, and the like.  I thought it might be easier to find real world examples from the user community.  If I use someone's example - I'll certainly give him/her credit.     ... View more