SASware Ballot Ideas

It would be nice if you could combine Containers in VA to create some more dynamic reporting.  For instance you could put a horizonal container inside of a stack container allowing the user to flip through pairs of visuals together.  This gives you more control over content presentation within a single sheet. ... View more

It'd be useful that the null device existed to access the null device of the OS, so we don't have to test whether nul (DOS) or /dev/null (Unix) are to be used.   ... View more

It could be really nice if prompts allowed for changing the measures in graphs and tables. For example having a drop-down list with a range of various measures (budget and actual expenses) and choosing one simply changes the measure displayed in the linechart or having a list object with checkboxes allowing to choose which measures are to be displayed in a (cross)table. ... View more

It should be able to export reportobjects (list tables, cross tabs, etc.) to Excel through HTML 5. We updated to SAS Visual Analytics 7.3 and noticed that exports to Excel are not possible through HTML 5 so we went back to Flash Player. Currently only our front page is running through HTML 5. ... View more

I was thinking that a "Run to Selected Node(s)" feature in SAS Enterprise Guide would be an amazing feature just like in SAS Data Integration Studio. The time that I would gain in not having to select all the nodes/task that need to run before a specific node/task in huge process flows would be tremendous... bringing my efficiency level to the top :-).   What do you think about this new feature? A must have or not?   Cheers,   Danny  ... View more

Please provide option to put the data label inside the stacked bar. ... View more

Create parameter enabling export cross table with the same design of the original SAS Visual Analytics to Excel. Often users need to edit the data in Excel, while preserving the same design from the SAS.   Thanks. ... View more

I would like to be able to display our data in a Radar Chart i VA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_chart ... View more

It seems as though the JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) format is quickly becoming a standard alongside XML with respect to data acquired via web services.  I'd like to see PROC JSON incorporate the ability to read JSON-format datasets in addition to the already-existing write functionality. ... View more

In VA 6.3 Explorer it is possible to export the shown chart to PNG.   In the Designer and Viewer, there should be a similar function.   As for now, there is no easy way the end users of my reports can grap and use what they see on the screen.   On the basis of https://communities.sas.com/thread/53198 ... View more

It would be extremely useful to allow a control object with a date measure be allowed to push the selected value into a parameter and be used to create advanced filters.  For example, I have a history table which shows changes in parameters by date.  I would like the user to be able to go back in time and show all the most recent parameters on a given date.  So the user would select a date, which would filter the history table for parameters <= than selected date, but that resulting table would then have to filter for max(date) grouped by parameter_id.  ... View more

Currently VA doesn't allow users to use existing aggregated measures when creating new ones (i.e. it cannot perform an aggregation on an aggregation). The only solution is to perform these calculations prior to uploading the data to LASR, which can be prohibitively resource intensive when dealing with a large number of possible variable combinations.   This feature would give designers much more control when creating new measures within VA and provide workarounds for many complex data requests. ... View more

Please add an autosave feature in SAS Visual Analytics while you are in Report Designer.  If your session times-out while you are creating the report, you lose all of your work that hasn't been saved. ... View more

Request It is requested to enable dynamic text features in VA. It should be feasible to include in reports specific values (measures & dimension) as single objects and or combined (text&images&values). It should be feasible to include in va reports values and text and images and have the possibility to define formatting also with conditional formatting (e.g including icons and images as per specific rule) Use case/Workarounds It has been required to include single values in Reports with a specific formatting in order to give right evidence to kpi’s and key values (#number of contracts, budget, …) The workaround identified so far is to use cell of a standard VA table, but the formatting opportunities are limited and result is not effective. Using of the table workaround is complex for user and requires to design in fix format (Standard VA feature should enable to ensure adaptive) Considerations Feature could be very useful for improvement usability and effectiveness of reports Feature is expected to be available both for web and for Mobile and as standard Va feature so that report in WEB and in Mobile can be the same (avoid duplicating development of report). As per our evidences feature is already available in many BI tools competitors. ... View more

want ability to add a text box and enter static words and sentences interlaced with token variables. ie.   The highest hourly sales for your restaurant on [tokendate] was [tokensalesamount]. This is [tokenpercent] above last year. ... View more

We have been generating reports in VA (6.3) and for some of those reports we simply would like to embed them in an iframe so our other applications can display them in various contexts. Would be even better if sections of the reports could be pulled separately. Is there a way SAS can implement this?   Note: Previous version 6.2 seems to be able to do that. Rendering in VA must have changed. From users perspective this seems like a feature taken away with 6.3. ... View more

As per my comment to the article, How to make sure SAS Visual Analytics end users understand report interactions, it would be helpful if the suggested information page with report context AND a visual representation of the interactions was autogenerated and updated as the report is changed.   Thanks, Michelle ... View more

When I have multiple sections in my report the user has to select the department on every section. They sometimes forget this and spend time looking at section two that contains information from another department.   I can't always use linking between sections. Fx. when first section contains a filter on year and the second section shows data from all years.   Therefore I would like to have the opportunity to make af filter prompt on reportlevel. ... View more

I suggest creating parameter to suppress columns with null values in the objects of the types Table and Table Crusade. This figure shows that the columns with null values (columns 1,2 and 3) take up space and confuse the report user.   Thanks. ... View more