When looking to add the Stored Process Alert Process (useful to see whether processes run in the BACKGROUND were completed successfully) the specific portlet type is not on the list. No worries, it’s actually a personal portlet that is defined to …
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ODS Graphics: new features and bundling in SAS 9.3
Rick Wicklin created his own list of Five Interface and Graphics Features that Everyone Can Use. It’s a very good summary of what you’ll immediately notice when you use analytics procedures in SAS display manager: cool graphs turned on by default. For …
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…
Important Note on Server-Side Filtering in BI Dashboard
Using Server-Side filters requires defined prompts with default values in Information Map Studio. But it is extremely important to note that changes to the default values (or adding a default value) to the map while the related dashboard is in use can …
SAS 9.3: the list
Alison posted the Top 10 Reasons you should care about SAS 9.3. It’s a bit tongue-in-cheek, but it reflects just a sample of the thousands of features and tweaks that you’ll see in this new release. Even with SAS 9.2, I was nowhere near exhausting my b…
Computing age in SAS 9.3
It seems like such a simple problem: how can you reliably compute the age of someone or something? Susan lamented the subtle issues using the YRDIF function exactly 1.0356164384 years ago. Sure, you could write your own function for calculating such th…
How to assign a library to the same path as your SAS Enterprise Guide project
SAS Enterprise Guide sets values for several useful SAS macro variables when it connects to a SAS session, including one macro variable, &_CLIENTPROJECTPATH, that contains the name and path of the current SAS Enterprise Guide project file. (To lear…
Frequently asked questions about SAS 9.3 and SAS Enterprise Guide
As I write this, SAS 9.3 has not yet been “shipped”, but its release is imminent. I’ve already heard many questions about how SAS Enterprise Guide works with the new version, so I decided to write this “Frequently-soon-to-be-asked questions” document t…