Chapter 4: Applying Numeric Parameters

Introduction

In addition to enabling you to create reports quickly and easily, SAS Visual Analytics also provides a great deal of flexibility to the report designer and the report viewer. One example of this flexibility is the ability to create and use parameters. Parameters are a special type of data item that can be created by the designer and modified by the viewer. They are like macro variables in that they are changeable and they are not tied to any specific data set. In fact, the set of acceptable values for the parameter can come from one data set and the selected value can be used in another data set.

Typically, you will add parameters to your report to give your report viewers more control over ...

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