When working in SAS Enterprise Guide, you can access data from the metadata libraries. When you make changes to the datasets in the meta library, such as adding or modifying columns, or even deleted datasets, the metadata library does not have the data – it must be registered. Argh – so frustrating especially if you are use to working with the normal SAS libraries. However, you can update the metadata library from SAS Enterprise Guide. SAS Enterprise Guide Tricks for Working with Metadata So here’s a simple setup of how you might find yourself in this situation. When creating data for SAS BI Dashboard, you might want a smaller or summarized dataset to use. For this example, there was a dataset called SOURCE in the GA_DATA metadata library. So this dataset was changed up to create the dataset BI_DASH_SRCE. For this example, let’s just assume it’s the most AWESOME data every created for a dashboard and not just a renamed dataset I created for this example. Anyway the issue is when I created this delicious dataset, it was not automagically added to the GA_DATA metadata library – I have to add it. I can use the SAS Management Console but […]