SAS 9.3 Guide to Software Updates

Upgrading from SAS BI Dashboard 4.2 or a
Previous Release
Changes in the Appearance of the Dashboard
Here are the changes that you might see when viewing a dashboard in SAS BI
Dashboard 4.31:
n In bar charts, solid colored bars are used. In SAS BI Dashboard 4.2, the bars were
gray for bar charts with reference lines. Using solid colors enables you to more
easily identify the individual bars.
n The values of the column that is assigned to the Column group by role appear at
the top of the graph. In 4.2, these values appeared at the bottom of the graph and
were labeled with the name of the column that was assigned to the Column group
by role.
n Some labels on the X axis might be repeated.
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n The bars on the right side of the graph might be wider than the bars on the left side
of the graph.
n HTML is not supported in SAS BI Dashboard 4.3. For example, if an indicator
includes HTML output from a SAS Stored Process, then these indicators are blank
or display an error message in SAS BI Dashboard 4.3.
n If you used HTML to change the color of a label in SAS BI Dashboard 4.2, then this
HTML code is displayed as part of the label in SAS BI Dashboard 4.3. Use the new
static label functionality that is available in SAS BI Dashboard 4.3 to customize your
labels.
n SAS BI Dashboard 4.3 automatically aggregates the data for you, so you will not see
bar charts stacked on top of each other or pie charts with numerous slices. Tooltips
are not available for any summarized indicator. To display tooltips on a summarized
indicator, optimize the query so that the query (rather than the indicator) aggregates
the data.
n If an indicator from a previous release of SAS BI Dashboard contains images, then
the images might not be displayed when these indicators are migrated. To view the