When you install Metacoda Custom Tasks for use in SAS® Enterprise Guide® and the SAS® Add-In for Microsoft Office you may find you don’t see the new menu items you expected in the Tools menu: There are 2 main reasons why they may be missing: 1) t…
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Does SAS support Microsoft Office 365?
Have you adopted use of Microsoft Office 365? How has working “in the cloud” affected your integration with SAS applications? SAS product management wants to hear from you.
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Create and run SAS code in SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office
When SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office was first created over a decade ago, SAS programmers were told to check their skills at the door. This new product was for non-programmers only. SAS programmers were invited to contribute to the experience by packaging their code in SAS stored processes, which end […]
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Next Up: SAS Enterprise Guide Custom Tasks Course in Sydney
I’m on my way back from SAS® Global Forum 2016 (#SASGF), where I heard all about the all new SAS Viya™ platform, and the next exciting thing on my agenda is attending Chris Hemedinger’s course Developing Custom Tasks for SAS Enterprise Guide in Sydney on 3-4 May (it’s also on in Melbourne on 5-6 May). … Continue reading “Next Up: SAS Enterprise Guide Custom Tasks Course in Sydney”
Why your DDE programs don’t work anymore
Hello, 1992 called. They want their DDE Excel automation back. Perhaps the title of this article is too pessimistic. Of course your SAS programs that use DDE (dynamic data exchange) can still work perfectly, as long as you situate your SAS software and its DDE “partner” (usually Microsoft Excel) to […]
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Removing Custom Task Capability Metadata
Yesterday I saw a question on the SAS® Communities site from Nick about Registering Custom Tasks and managing the capability metadata that’s used for role based access control on those custom tasks. I found Nick’s question especially interesting because we have some free Metacoda Custom Tasks and those techniques can also be used to control […]
Reading ‘Custom Tasks for SAS Enterprise Guide Using Microsoft .NET’
Chris Hemedinger’s new book Custom Tasks for SAS® Enterprise Guide® Using Microsoft .NET was recently released. If you have an idea for a really useful additional task you’d like to build for SAS Enterprise Guide, I strongly encou…
Controlling access to custom tasks in SAS Enterprise Guide
I’ve bragged about how easy it is to install custom tasks for SAS Enterprise Guide. It’s simple: you copy the .NET assembly (usually a single DLL file) into one of the designated folders in your SAS Enterprise Guide installation, and your task just shows up in the menu. Since I […]