The first screen you see when opening SAS Enterprise Guide is the Welcome to SAS Enterprise Guide window, allowing you to open a previously open project (1), create a new project (2), or (3) open the supplied Tutorial. I typically open Enterprise Guide to create a set of code. For some reason, all of these years I have clicked on the New Project button and then from the Enterprise Guide menu selected File->New->Program. I think that since Enterprise Guide is always 1st a Project file, rather than a .sas program file that this was the order I needed to go. Of course, there is a better way. If I select link for New SAS Program in the New Area (numbered 2 in the screenshot) it not only opens a new SAS program node, it creates it within a SAS Enterprise Guide project. Doh! What was I thinking all of these years. Made me laugh out loud to realize the lost productivity. Is anyone else out there making the same mistake?
Tag: Enterprise guide
Tip on creating graphic files in specific locations
When trying to write out graphics to a specific filename location, the gsfname option is only honored when ODS LISTING is turned on and ODS HTML is turned off. This is especially important in 9.3 Base SAS as the ODS HTML option is the default output de…
NOTE: Better Access to SYSTASK and OS Commands in SAS 9.3
Back in June I extolled the virtues of the SYSTASK statement, but was frustrated by my inability to use it in certain circumstances. So I was very pleased to see Chris Hemedinger writing in his blog recently that the default ability to use SYSTASK (and…
NOTE: Better Access to SYSTASK and OS Commands in SAS 9.3
Back in June I extolled the virtues of the SYSTASK statement, but was frustrated by my inability to use it in certain circumstances. So I was very pleased to see Chris Hemedinger writing in his blog recently that the default ability to use SYSTASK (and…
Enterprise Guide 4.3.1 and 9.3 Stored Processes
Chris mentions in his FAQ post on 9.3 and Enterprise Guide that the new stored processes and other new metadata can not leverage all of the functionality in the new 9.3 release. EG is nice to remind us of that fact when we open the SAS Folders view w…
Making OLAP Drill Through to Detail Data Available as Dataset in EG Project
In order to make the OLAP drill through data available as data tables in the Enterprise Guide, all you need to do is change the option to automatically insert the results as a data set in the project. This is extremely useful if part of your workflow i…
Making OLAP Drill Through to Detail Data Available as Dataset in EG Project
In order to make the OLAP drill through data available as data tables in the Enterprise Guide, all you need to do is change the option to automatically insert the results as a data set in the project. This is extremely useful if part of your workflow i…
NOTE: Undocumented Features – Use Them at Your Peril!
Back in October 2009 I mentioned the undocumented feature in Enterprise Guide whereby data sets whose names begin “_TO” are hidden by EG’s Server List pane. I also cautioned against using undocumented features.
SAS’s Chris Hemedinger recently highligh…