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Data Controller for SAS: Viewer

The viewer screen provides a raw view of the underlying table. Choose a library, then a table, and click view to see the first rows - up to the DC_MAXOBS_WEBVIEW limit, 2,000 rows by default. A filter option is provided should you wish to view a different section of rows.

The following libraries will be visible:

• All libraries available on startup (session autoexec)
• Any libraries configured in the services/public/[Data_Controller_Settings/settings] Stored Process / Viya Job
• All libraries available to the logged in user in metadata (SAS 9 only)

Row and Column level security can also be applied in VIEW mode, as can additional table-level permissions (MPE_SECURITY table).

Full Table Search

A single search box can be used to make a full table search on any character or numeric value, using this macro.

The search covers every column of the table at once, so you do not need to know which column holds the value you are looking for:

• Character search (the default) is a case sensitive CONTAINS match against every character column, so Smith finds Smithson and smith finds Goldsmith, but smith will not find Smithson.
• Numeric search (tick the Numeric box) is an exact match against every numeric column, so 42 will not find 420 or 4210.
• If a filter is applied, the search runs within the filtered rows rather than the whole table.
• The grid is capped by the DC_MAXOBS_WEBVIEW option (2,000 rows by default).
• For a search, the cap applies to the row count as well: a search that matches more rows than the cap returns 2,000 of them, and the count shown next to the table name is the number of rows returned, not the total number of matches.
• Without a search, the count shown next to the table name is the full number of rows in the filtered view, so it can be higher than the number of rows displayed - a table of 5,000 rows reports 5,000 rows above a grid holding the first 2,000.
• A search that matches nothing shows a "No data found with given conditions" panel rather than an empty grid.

Options

This button shows a range of options. If the table is editable, you will also see a EDIT option.

Download

The Download button gives several options for obtaining the current view of data:

1. CSV. This provides a comma delimited file.

2. Excel. This provides a tab delimited file.

3. SAS Datalines. This provides a SAS program with data as datalines, so that the data can be rebuilt as a SAS table.

4. SAS DDL. A download of a DDL file using SAS flavoured syntax.

5. TSQL DDL. A DDL download using SQL Server flavoured syntax.

Note - if the table is registered in Data Controller as being TXTEMPORAL (SCD2) then the download option will prefilter for the current records and removes the valid from / valid to variables. This makes the CSV suitable for DC file upload, if desired.

Note that all the above items are exported from backend. There is also a frontend context menu that can be used in the VIEW screen (right click menu) for quick export into CSV, Excel and PDF formats. These frontend exports are "what you see": they cover the grid as it is displayed (the current selection if you have one, otherwise the whole table, with hidden columns omitted), so they honour your on-screen filters and labels but are not a substitute for the backend download when you need the full table.

The PDF option produces a paginated A4 landscape document with the column headers repeated on every page. It is limited to the first 5,000 rows, uses a monospace font, and covers Western European characters only - anything outside that character set is shown as ?. For a typeset report with your company branding, use the backend download instead.

Web Query URL

This option gives you a URL that can be used to import data directly into third party tools such as Power BI or Microsoft Excel (as a "web query"). You can set up a filter, eg for a particular month, and refresh the query on demand using client tooling such as VBA.