topic Re: How would you edit sas tables from the web in real-time in Developers

How would you edit sas tables from the web in real-time

mathias — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 14:56:06 GMT

Hello,

I would like to make a web interface to read & edit SAS tables in real-time.

I only know of STP to communicate between a web-page and SAS but it's a one-way communication: you send parameters to a STP and the STP executes and does something.

Does someone know a method to

display some sas dataset information into a webpage (separate server)
send an update from the page to the sas dataset (this I can do with a normal STP but it would be clunky : open a tab, execute and close the tab when finished)
update the webpage with the new dataset

Any idea/input is welcome

Re: How would you edit sas tables from the web in real-time

Timmy2383 — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 15:10:22 GMT

If you know intermediate web development (javascript, css and html) it's not too difficult to create chained stored processes.

I would have one stored process that has all the javascript, css and HTML code required to generate the webpage, then I would have a separate stored process that is called by the page to perform the server-side SAS code that updates the dataset with the parameters passed through the URL string. Done like this you can implement AJAX calls pretty easily to update the page with updated data each time the changes are committed.

Re: How would you edit sas tables from the web in real-time

RW9 — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 15:34:30 GMT

I would imagine your best bet is to speak directly to SAS about a solution for this. They have various packages where you can get reports, and edit data. It would probably be easier than building your own solution which would need security, the interfaces, the back end database/store, plus the required licenses. True the package wil cost, but is it more or less than all that effort yourself?

Also, why not use a database? Even something free you should be able to link in a database to a web page front end, bit of PHP script.