An error occurs when you perform a search as a guest in SAS® Visual Analytics 7.5


When you log on to SAS Visual Analytics 7.5 as a guest and perform a search, the web application displays the following error message:

Note: This same issue also occurs when you log on as a guest to any SAS® web application that is built on HTML Commons 9.0 and you perform a search.

To work around the issue :

  1. Log on to SAS® Management Console.
  2. On the Plug-ins tab, select Application Management ► Configuration Manager.
  3. Right-click the Search Interface to SAS Content node and select Properties.
  4. On the Advanced tab, set the App.AllowGuest property to true. (If this property does not exist, add it.) For more information about the App.AllowGuest property, see “Configuration Properties for the Home Page” in the SAS Intelligence Platform: Web Application Administration Guide.
  5. Also set the App.AllowGuest property to true on the Visual Analytics Hub, Visual Analytics Viewer, Visual Analytics Transport Service, and Search Interface to SAS Content nodes that are found under Configuration Manager in SAS Management Console.
  6. Restart the SAS® Web Application Server so that the changes take effect.