Tag: SAS custom tasks

Viewing SAS catalogs and formats in SAS Enterprise Guide

Many years ago I shared a custom task that allows you to view and manage SAS catalogs within SAS Enterprise Guide. As a reminder, a SAS catalog is a special type of SAS file that acts as a container, like a folder, for a variety of content items called catalog […]

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The Copy Files task is going legit (and moving)

I’ve supplied dozens of custom tasks for SAS Enterprise Guide, but the Copy Files task is easily the most popular. The Copy Files task allows you to capture “file transfer” steps inside your process flow, so that you can automate any file upload and download operations between your PC and […]

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A custom task to list and stop your SAS sessions

Last week I described how to use PROC IOMOPERATE to list the active SAS sessions that have been spawned in your SAS environment. I promised that I would share a custom task that simplifies the technique. Today I’m sharing that task with you. How to get the SAS Spawned Processes […]

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Copy SAS variable names to the clipboard in SAS Enterprise Guide

I recently met SAS user “CSC” at the Analytics 2015 conference. It might be generous to say that he’s an avid user of SAS Enterprise Guide; it’s probably more accurate to say that he’s now accustomed to the tool and he’s once again productive. But he still misses some features […]

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Ask the Expert: Creating custom tasks for SAS Enterprise Guide

If you have not yet discovered the new Ask the Expert series on the SAS Training site, you are missing out on a treasure. Visit the site right now and review all of the available topics, from “Newbie” to Analytics to Visualization to good ol’ SAS programming. Go on; I’ll […]

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Project Reviewer task and Copy Files task: refreshed for v7.1

Two popular SAS custom tasks have recently been updated for SAS Enterprise Guide 7.1. Most custom tasks that I’ve shared will work without modification across releases, but these two required a special rebuild due to some internal product API changes. The Project Reviewer task allows you to see a detail […]

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Can you learn how to create custom tasks?

To develop a custom task for use in SAS Enterprise Guide (or SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office), you need a few things: A working knowledge of SAS and SAS Enterprise Guide Microsoft Visual Studio (the free Express edition will do, though the Professional edition is better) Some experience with C# […]

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Using Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Express to debug custom tasks

It’s true: you can use the Microsoft Visual Studio Express tools to build custom tasks for SAS Enterprise Guide and the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office. And I said as much in my book, Custom Tasks for SAS Enterprise Guide Using Microsoft .NET. I even provided step-by-step instructions for how […]