topic Re: Global macro variable not showing up in SAS Enterprise Guide? in New SAS User

Global macro variable not showing up in SAS Enterprise Guide?

adventuresinsas — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 20:57:18 GMT

Hey everyone! I'm in bit of a pickle and have spent hours trying to figure this out so hoping someone out there can help. I have a project in SAS EG that contains two programs. Now, I inherited this project so I don't know what went into creating this project. But basically, one of the programs uses a &month and &year macro variable that gets defined in the Project Prompts screen when you run the project. These should be global variables.

In fact, &month is a global variable. When I run both programs, the variable gets initialized correctly.

But for whatever reason, that's not happening with &year. It works in Program A but is not present in Program B.

I put in this code in Program A to see the macro variables:

%put _global_;

The output is:

25 GOPTIONS ACCESSIBLE;

26 %put _global_;

GLOBAL MONTH November

GLOBAL YEAR 2018

But when I put the same code in Program B:

%put _global_;

I only get this:

22 GOPTIONS ACCESSIBLE;

23 %put _global_;

GLOBAL MONTH November

Does anyone know why this is happening?

Re: Global macro variable not showing up in SAS Enterprise Guide?

PaigeMiller — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 21:02:11 GMT

Are you executing program A and program B in the same EG session? Are the lines of code before %put _global_; the same?

Re: Global macro variable not showing up in SAS Enterprise Guide?

Kurt_Bremser — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 21:51:51 GMT

The line numbers differ in the two logs; this points to different environments.

Re: Global macro variable not showing up in SAS Enterprise Guide?

adventuresinsas — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 17:18:35 GMT

Just an update to everyone: I discovered that the reason for this was because I didn't have the "Use prompt value throughout project" box selected for that particular prompt/macro variable. Checking that box solved my issue.