If you have SAS Enterprise Guide and SAS for Windows installed on a machine together, they should Just Work. There is no special setup required. But...what if they don't?
I've posted an article in the SAS Enterprise Guide community about this topic. Read the article to learn:
- How to select "No profile" mode in SAS Enterprise Guide.
- How to add your Local SAS into the mix when you're connected to a SAS Metadata environment
- How to "fix" your local system when SAS Enterprise Guide can't find your local SAS installation.
See the full article >> Using SAS Enterprise Guide with your local SAS installation
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4 Comments
Thank you Chris for all the useful informations you give US
I really appreciate all the TIPS and TRICKS on Guide
Everything about : GUIDE + EXCEL+ ODS will be useful
That is : GUIDE and ODS TAGSETS
How to put information in an Excel Cell in an existing sheet with GUIDE
How to change excel input file names or excel export files in a project without too much work
2 Parallel processing in Guide with a node waiting for good execution of these two parallel treatement to pursue
thank you in advance
Hugues GERARD from PARIS_France
Gerard, these are great ideas for future articles. I'll add them to my backlog!
I have a local install of SAS Foundation 9.4 and EG 6.1. I have a persistent issue which I so far have no solution for. SAS uses C:\users\username\appdata\local\temp to set up the work library. After I run a process flow it is populated with the output and a directory for each task with a file named 'results.log'.. I spend some time looking at the output and all is well. The issue is that after some period of time the work library data is deleted and I can no longer modify tasks or look at output. I posted to SAS-L and got some feedback but I still have no solution. If you have any ideas I would be very grateful. I have used SAS since the late 70's, but am relatively new to EG.
Ray, I don't understand why the WORK folder is disappearing on you. I hear from customers all of the time who leave their SAS Enterprise Guide session up for days connected to the same SAS session (not that I recommend that!). I know that on SAS-L we shared some ideas to diagnose the cause of that problem - searching Windows Event Log for crashes, etc.
But in the meantime, you might be able to take some steps to redirect the SAS WORK output to another folder, or prevent it from being deleted at the end of a session. See the WORK= option or NOWORKTERM system option.
You can also use the USER system option to redirect SAS output to another location other than WORK for code that specifies just a one-level name (like DATA OUT; -- instead of WORK.OUT it would go to the USER.OUT location).