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SAS Web Infrastructure Kit: The light version “of the SAS (care of BI Keynotes)

Jun
21

Great post over at BI Keynotes : http://bikeynotes.blogspot.com/2009/04/sas-web-infrastructure-kit.html

Unfortunately it is in French, so care of google translate, here is a repost.

In SAS 9.1, SAS Information Delivery Portal is the Web application “SAS Portal Web Application Shell. The latter is provided with the component SAS Web Infrastructure Kit and specifically the module SAS Integration Technologies. For information, the module SAS Integration Technologies is the technological base of the SAS 9 platform and is delivered with all the packages based on components of the latter (eg, SAS Data Integration Server or SAS BI Server).

Playing the role of technical base, the Web application “SAS Portal Web Application Shell” loads the full functionality offered by the SAS portal. By default, only basic features are active. To “wake up” all the features in sleep provided by the Web application “SAS Portal Web Application Shell,” the components supplied by SAS Web Infrastructure Kit must be added by installing the SAS portal.

Below is a list of functionalities and features of the Web application “SAS Portal Web Application Shell”:

* Support for single sign-on (Single Sign-On or SSO) to other SAS web applications (eg, SAS Web Report Studio or SAS Web OLAP Viewer for Java).
* Support only applications stored SAS Portlet Collection Portlet “. For information, the portlet “Collection Portlet” open-ended version supports all BI objects and allows, for example, to list the reports SAS Web Report Studio and opened automatically by redirecting users to SAS Web Report Viewer (viewer reports provided with SAS Information Delivery Portal).
* Only administrators (ie members of the Technical Group “Portal Admins”) can create pages (personal or shared) and access the management application preferences. Therefore, an end user will not be a mere consumer of the information published by the directors.
* Full support of the repository and files WebDAV:
o The portlet “WebDAV Graph Portlet” to create charts from data published in XML format in the WebDAV repository,
o The portlet “WebDAV Content Portlet” to restore files WebDAV within portal pages,
o The portlet “WebDAV Repository Navigator” to explore the contents of WebDAV.

Note: Although the documentation indicates the contrary, it is possible to use WebDAV portlets with a server other than Xythos WebDAV Server WebFile (usually Apache HTTP Server or IBM HTTP Server). To function properly, these portlets need a pre-established connection to the WebDAV repository. For more information, please see the comments associated with this article.

In conclusion, if you have a package of the SAS 9 platform (with the exception of SAS Enterprise BI Server, which already includes SAS Information Delivery Portal), you have the component SAS Web Infrastructure Kit and you can deploy a portal SAS “light “no additional cost. Although limited in terms of features, the Web application “SAS Portal Web Application Shell” allows you to centralize user access to various Web applications from SAS.

For more information on the Web application “SAS Portal Web Application Shell” and the existing differences with SAS Information Delivery Portal, see the section “Introduction to the SAS Web Infrastructure Kit” (available on the website of U.S. support SAS) at the following address: http://support.sas.com/rnd/itech/doc9/portal_ov/index.html.

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Publishing SAS Content to Sharepoint

May
14

Had a question on my blog about SAS Web parts that are available for Sharepoint and where to download them or install them from.

While researching the questin (sorry Joseph stil haven’t found them) I found this code in the SAS Paper I referenced:

data sampledata;
do n=1 to 1000;
x=int(ranuni(77777)*7);
y=int(ranuni(77777)*5);
output;
end;
run;

filename out ‘\\mySharePointServer\Shared Documents\ProcFreqExample.html’;

ODS HTML encoding=UTF8 body=out dev=gif;

proc freq data=sampledata;
tables height*weight / chisq;
run;

ODS HTML close;

So effectively you can publish to sharepoint using a simple UNC link.

I know I am going to need this in the future so this blog is a note to self.

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SAS and Sharepoint

Apr
11

Following on from developing our MediaWiki plugin that dynamically exposes SAS Metadata within the Wiki, I have been researching whether we should build a Microsoft Sharepoint Web Part to enable customers to stream SAS Metadata dynamically within Sharepoint.

I came across this paper “Paper 390-2009: Henderson, David; Alexandre, Sean - Integrating SAS® Business Intelligence with Microsoft SharePoint” from SAS Forum 2009, that outlines how SAS provides integrations/web parts for BI Dashboards and Stored processes already.

Cool!

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Removing Portal Pages for all Users

Dec
11

Interesting blog post over at Angela Halls blog called “Removing “User Home” Page from Information Delivery Portal“

It outlines how to remove the hoe page from all users, but I can;t see why it canlt be used to add default pages as well, will have to test that one out.

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SAS Portal – Incorrect Password (but I know its right damn you)

Nov
16

Struck a frustrating problem the other day where new users were unable to login to the SAS Portal.

When they tried they would get an “incorrect login” error, even though we could login in succesfully to any other windows environment (we are using windows authentication)

So off to the log files we went and we noticed this gem:

   UpdateMetadata return code=807fe8f4....
   DoRequest return code=807fe8f4....
   The user does not have permission to perform this action.

Which according to this SAS Support article:

Usage Note 20381: The login might fail with a permission error

and states that the user does not have writemetadata permission on the Portal Application Tree, which means when they login the Portal cannot create a new folder in the metadata to hold their portal preferences.

Of course I would say that the error message that was displayed to the user was far from helpful, but as I was tightening metadata security before this started appearing then it all makes sense.

Thank SAS for the logs otherwise I think we would be chasing this one for a while.

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Default SAS Portlets

Jul
18

I always forget what portlets are installed by default in the SAS Portal (compared to the many I add to test etc)

So quick note for myself to remind me (sourced from Understanding Portlets)

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