Doing more with SAS Enterprise Guide automation

Chris Hemedinger
Chris Hemedinger|April 17, 2012

Have you ever selected File->Schedule Project or Schedule->Process Flow in SAS Enterprise Guide? Are you curious about what magic these actions will trigger? Here’s what happens: SAS Enterprise Guide creates a VBScript program that contains the instructions to start SAS Enterprise Guide, load your project, run your project or flow, [...]

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Inspecting SAS macro variables in SAS Enterprise Guide

Chris Hemedinger
Chris Hemedinger|November 22, 2011

The SAS macro variable “inspector” is a custom task that plugs into SAS Enterprise Guide 4.3. You can use it to view the current values for all SAS macro variables that are defined within your SAS session. You can also evaluate “immediate” macro expressions in a convenient quick view window. [...]

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Jumping into Windows 7 Jump Lists

Chris Hemedinger
Chris Hemedinger|September 28, 2011

Filed under “Little changes that you probably didn’t notice”. When Microsoft introduced Windows 7 to the desktop, one of the many usability features that they added were “Jump Lists”. Jump Lists serve as a sort of shortcut to not just open an application, but “jump right in” to a particular [...]

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I'm not supposed to be writing this

Chris Hemedinger
Chris Hemedinger|February 8, 2011

I’m not supposed to be working on this blog post right now. I’ve stayed late at the office under the pretense of working on “the book.” It’s the book about creating custom tasks for SAS Enterprise Guide, and I’ve been working on it for quite a while. I enjoy writing [...]

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Custom tasks that do the job

Chris Hemedinger
Chris Hemedinger|January 31, 2010

Andy wrote in the NOTE: blog that he’s stumbled upon a few custom tasks to extend features in SAS Enterprise Guide. He wondered aloud whether there might be more “free” tasks out there, available for use by anyone who can find them and download them. The answer is: You betcha!* [...]

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