User manual SAS INFORMATION DELIVERY PORTAL 4.3 INTRODUCTION

[. . . ] SAS Information Delivery Portal 4. 3: Introduction ® SAS® Documentation The correct bibliographic citation for this manual is as follows: SAS Institute Inc. SAS ® Information Delivery Portal 4. 3: Introduction Copyright © 2010, SAS Institute Inc. , Cary, NC, USA 1st printing, August 2010 All rights reserved. For a hardcopy book: No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher, SAS Institute Inc. For a Web download or e-book:Your use of this publication shall be governed by the terms established by the vendor at the time you acquire this publication. [. . . ] You might first try searching for links that already exist in the portal. From the search results, you can bookmark the link items that you want to keep. You bookmark an item by clicking the Actions menu next to the item that you want to bookmark, and then by selecting Bookmark. A Bookmark icon in the following display: appears next to the selected item, as shown Notice that several items have been bookmarked in the list. These items are automatically added to your Bookmarks portlet. For more information about Bookmarks portlets, see "Types of Portlets That Are Included with the Portal" on page 9. Viewing and Sharing Information That Is Published to Channels Overview of SAS Publication The portal enables you to view the contents of packages that have been created using the SAS Publishing Framework. A package can contain files, links, SAS Stored Processes, and other packages. Packages can be published to a publication channel and also to a WebDAV (Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning) repository. A publication channel is a virtual communication path that is identified with a particular topic, organizational group, user audience, or other category. A publication channel is similar to a radio channel that is identified with a particular frequency. Your site administrator defines the publication channels for your organization. Users who sign up to 22 Chapter 3 · Viewing and Managing Portal Content receive information from a channel are called subscribers. If you subscribe to a channel, then you automatically receive information whenever it is published to that channel. The portal provides several ways to view and share information that has been published: · · · You can search for a package, view the contents of the package, bookmark or e-mail a link to the package, and add the package to a collection portlet. You can search for a channel and add the channel to a collection portlet. Here are some options available to you when you subscribe to a channel: · If you add a Publication Channel Subscriptions portlet to your portal, the channel might be added automatically to the portlet depending on the subscriber profile that is used. For more information about profiles, see "Main Steps for Subscribing to Publication Channels" on page 22. When you subscribe to a channel, if you specify WebDAV as your transport, channel content also appears in your WebDAV repository. When you subscribe to a channel, if you specify e-mail as your transport, channel content is also e-mailed to you. (You receive e-mail only for content that is published to the channel using the SAS Publishing Framework. You do not receive e-mail for content that is published from the portal. ) · · · You can publish portal content to a channel or to a WebDAV location. The following sections describe the process of subscribing to publication channels, viewing content that is published to those channels, and publishing content. Note: You can perform some of the tasks that are associated with publication by using the Options menu on the banner. For links to documents that explain how to perform all related tasks, see "Where to Find More Information" on page 3. Main Steps for Subscribing to Publication Channels Your organization defines channels using the SAS Publishing Framework, and your SAS administrator applies security in order to control which users and groups can access the channels. [. . . ] repository a location in which data is stored, organized, and maintained and which is accessible to users either directly or through a network. SAS report a report that has been stored in the SAS Report Model format. A SAS report might be available for viewing in the portal if your organization has installed SAS Web Report Studio. SAS Stored Process a SAS program that is stored in a central location and that can be executed from the SAS Information Delivery Portal at the user's request. [. . . ]