I think migration of SAS VA 7.3 to SAS VA 8.? will be an important topic at that time.   Explaining the differences of SAS VA 7.3 compared to SAS VA 8.x from different viewpoints would be usefull, like - administrator - desiging - Viewing/using   ... View more

Great way to go SAS! Please consult us more about the way to go. I would love to help you improve SAS VA with comments, test drives etc. ... View more

Hi Chris,   A quote from you: "Once a report is created, users cannot change what variables are displayed on graphs, what formats are used, what measures are displayed or how stacked bars are split".   The variables and measures that are displayed on graphs can be selected by the report viewer. It's a bit of a trick but you can use parameters (from a drop down list box) to select the variables and measures that are displayed. The formats however can not be changed dynamically in SAS 7.3 to my best knowledge...   Cheers, Frank ... View more

you also could try using a parameter for changing grouping, see;   https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Visual-Analytics/Change-Stack-Grouping-based-on-dropdown-choice/m-p/263540#U263540 ... View more

And then when you want to change your polished version you have to change a lot of graphs. The parameter solution is working fine though. ... View more

I think it's not possible to use paramater values in text objects. It would be a much valued addition to SAS VA imho ... View more

SAS promissed us to address this in a future release. I hope they also make sparklines based on aggregated measures possible. No clue in what release this will be possible... ... View more

I also really would like to see a better integration of forecasts etc in the designer. There is however an easier way of exporting the results of a forecast to designer: you can export the data from a forecast as an Excel file and import this file into designer. This way you have maximum flexiblity in desiging the linegraph. Pitty that we can not automate this step...     ... View more

Hi Sam,   To be complete: the final step in my working process is no longer needed. So I don't need to export/import an image. It is possible to create the final Wordcloud directly in the report based on the merged dataset. That looks fine.   So the only issue left is merging of the different topics in one wordcloud to use as Trending Topics   Thank, Frank ... View more

Hi Sam,   We get the same issue exporting to csv files.   I will contact tech support.   Thanks, Frank ... View more

Hi Sam,   I think I need to clarify a bit my working process: I start using text analytics in an exploration. Six seperate topics are created. Somehow I want to merge these topics to get one wordcloud showing trending topics. From every separate topic a dataset is exported containing terms, roles and weights. In SAS EG these datasets are appended and filtered for adjectives etc which are not so interesting. The 99 terms with the highest weights are then selected. This result dataset is uploaded in SAS VA and a new wordcloud is created using the terms as categories and the weights for the font size. Last step is exporting the image in a report.   So I'm wondering if this all could be done in a more simple way.   Cheers, Frank       ... View more

Hi Sam,   Here is a printscreen:           ... View more