SAS® Enterprise Guide® displays "Cannot open [report]" or "Log on failed" when opening SAS® Visual Analytics reports


When you are connected to a SAS Visual Analytics Server in SAS Enterprise Guide, you might see one of the following errors when you try to open a SAS Visual Analytics report.

SAS Enterprise Guide. Cannot open “report_name”. Access from this device has not been enabled on the server.

SAS Enterprise Guide. Cannot open “report_name”. The server has blocked access to this device.

SAS Enterprise Guide. Log on failed. The user ID or password is incorrect.

The SAS Enterprise Guide log file (SAS KB0036457) might contain this error:

2019-07-22 13:24:46,628 [4] ERROR SAS.EC.GTLTransport.GTLLogOn.ServerManager
[(null)] - Unable to create a metadata proxy connection for server: yourmetadata.servername.com
SAS.EC.GTLTransport.GTLTransportServiceException: Exception of type
'SAS.EC.GTLTransport.GTLTransportServiceException' was thrown.
The report failed to open. Contact your SAS administrator

Note: In SAS Enterprise Guide, you can open SAS Visual Analytics reports only through Metadata connection Profile. Additional Visual Analytics Profiles is available only for SAS® Add-In for Microsoft Office. For more information, see SAS KB0036524.