Visualizer Startup Guide

 

The steps outlined in this startup guide will take approximately 10 minutes to go through and will provide an high-level overview of the Visualization capabilities of complementSoft ASAP ™.  The assumption is that ASAP ™ has been downloaded and installed on your local client workstation. 

 

Thank you for investing the time to learn more about ASAP ™.

 

Visualizer Overview

 

Step 1: Launch ASAP ™

Click on the  button and select  from the complementSoft ASAP submenu.
This will takes you into the Document Manager  screen.  From here you will see files listed under the “Local” half (left side) of the screen with “Remote” being empty. 

 

Step 2: Locate Example 2.sas

Use the Document Manager to locate the Example 2.sas within the “Local” Panel.  This sample SAS® file was installed in the Program Files Folder under the complementSoft/sample folder when you installed ASAP ™.

 

Step 3: Visualize Example2.sas – Program Flow

Single click on the Example2.sas file so that it is highlighted and click the Visualizer icon .  ASAP ™ will automatically take you to the Visualizer and display the Program Flow of the selected program, i.e., Example 2.sas.

 

Step 4: Visualize Example2.sas – Data Flow, Split Screen

Click on the “view data flow” Icon  on the tool bar to view the Data Flow representation of Example 2.sas.

 

Click on the “toggle split screen” Icon , on the tool bar to view both the Data Flow and the corresponding SAS® code at the same time.  Note that you can directly edit the program because the Editor is integrated with the Visualizer.  Click on any icon in the Data Flow and the cursor in the Editor will scroll to the segment of code that corresponds to the icon being clicked.

 

Click on the “toggle split screen” Icon  on the tool bar to turn off split screen display.

 

Step 5: Visualize Example2.sas – Combine Data Flow

Click on the first Data Flow panel, and then click the double green arrows  located on the tool bar and watch the Data Flows combine – simulating the execution of the program.

 

 

Other things to explore:
While in the Program Flow of the Visualizer, right click on any dataset Icon  .  ASAP ™ will invoke SAS® and allow you to collect any of the information listed in the popup window.