topic Re: How to soft code stored process drill down URL in Developers

How to soft code stored process drill down URL

Quentin — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 15:57:54 GMT

Hi,

When a stored process called via SPWA will generate drill down URL's pointing to other stored processes, I know that instead of hardcoding the server name and port:

http://your.server:8080/SASStoredProcess/do?

You can soft code it with:

http://&_srvname:&_srvport/SASStoredProcess/do?

That obviously makes code more portable when you change servers.

That said, is there an easy way to detect whether the session is using http or httpS ? I still have that part of my URL hard coded, which means when a server changed to https:, I had to update the code. I would like to soft code the protocol as well as the server name and port.

Thanks,

--Q.

Re: How to soft code stored process drill down URL

Vince_SAS — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 19:09:41 GMT

Can you get by with using the _URL reserved macro variable?

Using Reserved Macro Variables

http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/stpug/68399/HTML/default/viewer.htm#p184mqqbi9w6qjn1q0619x19eg02.htm

Vince DelGobbo

SAS R&D

Re: How to soft code stored process drill down URL

Quentin — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 16:29:00 GMT

Thanks @Vince .

When I looked in _URL, I expected so see something like:

http://your.server:8080/SASStoredProcess/do?

What I actually see is:

/SASStoredProcess/do

Okay, it just hit me. Is that a relative URL, so no need to the http and server and port is not necessary?

So I could I could use it as the "root" URL for chaining stored processes? So tha's what I should have been using all along for chaining stored processes??? sigh.

Re: How to soft code stored process drill down URL

Vince_SAS — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 16:49:28 GMT

It is "relative" to protocol://server:port

You can find some examples of using _URL here:

Chaining Stored Processes

http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/stpug/68399/HTML/default/viewer.htm#datapass.htm

For example:

nexturl = "&_URL?_program=/WebApps/MyWebApp/Print Color" || '&fname=' || urlencode("&FNAME");

Vince DelGobbo

SAS R&D

Re: How to soft code stored process drill down URL

Quentin — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 17:50:53 GMT

Thanks Vince. Will file this under things I should have learned years ago. : )