Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 23:08:17 -0000
Reply-To: Philip Mason <phil@WOODSTREET.ORG.UK>
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From: Philip Mason <phil@WOODSTREET.ORG.UK>
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Subject: Re: Architecture ideas wanted for web-based SAS application
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This is one of the research things I am looking at now - since the activex
driver offers quite a lot of drill-down functionality such as dynamically
building URLs to link to based on the part of the graph you click on. I'd be
interested to see any code you may be able to share as an example to give
people a head start into this.
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Subject: Re: Architecture ideas wanted for web-based SAS application
"Scott Bass" <usenet739_yahoo_com_au> wrote in
news:4232325c$0$5493$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au:
> Hi,
>
> I've been tasked to develop a departmental application that tracks
> metrics for the various projects we're conducting. Sort of a project
> management/EIS application. I'll need to generate graphics (eg. Gantt
> charts) and reports.
>
> I'm familiar with Base SAS, SAS/AF (however only version 6 and a bit
> rusty at that), but unfamiliar with some of the newer aspects of SAS
> and the general direction of full screen applications development,
> such as web AF, SAS/IntrNet, or .Net hooking into SAS. Basically, I'm
> confident with the backend processing, but want advice on the frontend
> side of things.
>
> Assumptions:
>
> * I want the client to be a browser, since not all colleagues have SAS
> on their desktop
> * Browser will be IE
> * Web server will be Apache
> * The web content will need to be dynamically generated from SAS
> metadata. * If possible, I'd like to be able to hotspot graphics
> displayed in the browser to implement drilldown capability.
>
> I know this msg is a bit nebulous, but at this point, I'm just looking
> for architectural ideas.
>
> So, if you were building a full screen, interactive, web based SAS
> application, what SAS and non-SAS (Perl, PHP, Java, .Net???)
> technologies would you use?
>
> Thanks,
> Scott
>
>
>
Scott, I developed and maintain a fully automated browser based, drillable
analysis distributions system using nothing but SAS ODS. My clients need
nothing more then their desktop web browser(and the SAS ActiveX driver).
The system is expicit, meaning that interactivity is limited to the process
of dilling through layers of static graphical or tabled data.
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