Chapter 3: Linking to External Websites

Introduction

SAS Visual Analytics is a powerful tool that enables you to quickly and easily create reports to satisfy the needs of your viewers. In some instances, viewers might need to take the insights that they glean from your reports and view more details on a separate web page. To satisfy these requirements, SAS Visual Analytics enables users to create links from an object to an external URL. These links can be static or interactive.

Interactive links change based on user selections. These interactive links use parameters to pass a selected value from the report to the web page.

To create these interactive links, follow four simple steps:

  1. Research the structure of the URL.
  2. Use a hardcoded value to ...

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