SAS Information Map Studio has the following new features and enhancements:
Note: For the latest information about SAS Information Map Studio, see http://support.sas.com/software/products/ims.
The following enhancements have been made to the user interface:
The new Resources pane has the following tabs:
The Design tab (formerly called the Presentation tab) has the following enhancements:
The Relationships tab has the following enhancements:
The new Properties pane enables you to view all of the properties of a selected item at a glance. Certain properties can be modified directly in the pane. You can also use this pane to simultaneously update multiple data items or multiple custom properties.
The Table Properties dialog box has been redesigned. You can now set aggregation options for a data source that references an information map table, view more information about the resources that a data source references, and manage the columns for a data source.
The application's icons have been redesigned and improved:
You can now simultaneously modify multiple data items and custom properties.
The following enhancements are available for data items:
Data values that are hyperlink tags can now be rendered as hyperlinks in query results.
Support is now available for the totaling of non-additive expressions.
In the second maintenance release for SAS Information Map Studio 4.2, you can designate that a data item be used in the default query for SAS Web Report.
The following enhancements are available for filters:
You can now designate that a filter be hidden so that end users do not use a filter (for example, a prefilter) that you don't want them to use.
You can now select multiple (non-prompted) filters for a test query.
You can use the new browse-and-search feature to locate the values (or members) for any of the following items:
The following enhancements are available for prompts:
Prompts have been redesigned to provide more functionality. For example, you can now create prompts that use dynamically generated value lists.
You can now establish dependencies between prompts in a filter expression.
You can create prompts for OLAP filters.
Prompts that are created for a stored process and made globally available (shared) can be used by filters. For more information about creating a shared prompt, see the Help for stored processes in SAS Management Console.
Unique unformatted values are no longer required for a prompt's static (custom) list of values.
The new resource replacement feature enables you to replace resources that are unresolved or no longer relevant. This feature replaces the XML tab and the XML editor.
The following enhancements have been made to data source management:
You can now store your personal copies of information maps in a personal folder (My Folder). For more information about the personal folder, see the section on working with SAS folders in the SAS Intelligence Platform: System Administration Guide.
The following application administration updates have been implemented:
You can now clear the default connection profile setting by clicking Clear on the General tab in the Options dialog box.
You can now specify what to use for a default data item description on the Data Items tab in the Options dialog box.
Log files and application property files have been moved to the following locations:
C:Usersuser-IDAppDataRoamingSASSASInformationMapStudioapplication-version-number
C:Documents
and Settingsuser-IDApplication
DataSASSASInformationMapStudioapplication-version-number
Note: The CopyPaste.log file that is generated by the Copy to Folder feature is created in the following locations:
C:Usersuser-IDAppDataRoamingSASLogs
C:Documents
and Settingsuser-IDApplication
DataSASLOGS
The following features have been deprecated:
You can no longer export information maps as XML files. To import previously exported information maps, use the Open from XML menu option.
Note: To import and export information maps as packages, use the import and export features that are available from the Folders tab in SAS Management Console.
When you create a prompt, you can no longer use a data item's value-generation method for that prompt. In SAS Information Map Studio 4.2, you can specify a similar method within the prompt itself. Any prompt that was created before that release and that relies on the value-generation method of a data item will be converted to use the prompt's own corresponding method.
SAS Information Map Studio 4.2 does not provide the ability to automatically convert prompt values to uppercase before a query is run. Any prompt that was created before SAS Information Map Studio 4.2 but that is saved in this release will also lose that ability.
SAS Information Map Studio: Getting Started with SAS Information Maps (previously SAS Information Map Studio: Creating Your First Information Map) was updated and reorganized. This document provides step-by-step instructions for creating an information map that uses SAS sample data.