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SAS Enterprise Guide

SAS Enterprise Guide is an interactive interface to SAS (running locally or on a remote server).

Some possibly useful keyboard shortcuts

ctrl+g: jump to prompted line number. Useful if line numbers are displayed (Program->Editor Options->Show line numbers)

ctrl-/, ctrl-shift-/: (Un-)comment code.

ctrl-[, ctrl-]: jump to corresponding opening/closing parenthesis/brace

alt-num*: (un-)fold current block (num* = * on number block)

ctrl-alt-num+, ctrl-alt-num-: (un-)fold all foldings. (num- = minus sign on number block)

alt-shift-r: record macro and stop recording it.

ctrl-F1: play last recorded macro.

alt-F8: play any recorded macro.

ctrl-shift-m: Open keyboard macro window.

ctrl-F2: set/unset marker in current line.

F2: jump to next marked line.

shift-F2: jump to previous marked line

ctrl-shift-c: open color chooser.

More keyboard shortcuts under Program->Enhanced Editor Keys.

Opening any file as text

Tools -> Options -> Results -> Viewer -> File extensions to open as text by default.

German: Extras -> Optionen -> Ergebnisse -> Viewer -> ...

Tips

Menu: Programm -> AutoText-Makro hinzufügen…

Creating Visual Basic for Application Code

Using File->Schedule Project can be used to create a VB Script program that uses SAS Enetrprise Guide automation interface to run the project.

The destination of the *.vbs file is determined with the action (?) tab.

Turning off syntaxcheck

EG turns off syntaxcheck at the beginning of every task!

TODO

Projects

A project is a record of

the data sets that have been opened,
the tasks that have been run,
the results that have been produced and
the relationship between these objects.

In SAS Enterprise Guide, one project is opened at a time.

A project can either be represented as a tree structure in the project explorer or as a process flow in the project designer.

EGP files

*.egp files are enterprise guide project files.

Running programs in batch

Apparently, File->Schedule Project creates a VB Script file and adds a scheduled task to the Windows scheduler.

SAS Enterprise Guide: Scripting

http://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/2011/05/03/using-sas-enterprise-guide-to-run-programs-in-batch/

*.egp files

Apparently, *.egp files are in reality zip files. So, they can be renamed to foo.zip and then opened with a zip explorer. Such a zip file seems to contain former versions of the project.