topic Re: create standard folder structure for your study in New SAS User

create standard folder structure for your study

Ragineejoshi — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 21:23:18 GMT

Hi SAS Experts,

I need help with this problem.

Suppose you are study lead and have been given a task to create standard folder structure for your study.

I have to create a macro that will take path as input ..

DATA
--sdtm
--adam
--raw
PROGRAM
--sdtm
--adam
--tlg
QCPROGRAM
--sdtm
----output
--adam
-----output
--tlg
----output
OUTPUT
--tlg
DOC
--email

(Requirements: check whether path parameter is non missing (Required or mandatory), if its missing then send user generated error message and exit out
else if Check whether the path passed by the users exist on the server, if not the send user generated error message and exit out of the macro.

then you create folder structure.)

Re: create standard folder structure for your study

Reeza — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 21:55:08 GMT

1. Check if the folder/directory exists using DINFO() function

http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/hostwin/69955/HTML/default/viewer.htm#p0qzctpnc6pi8sn1qcuv81rls13c.htm#n10k6grg16q25dn17wxmhlf1bfv4

2. Create folders using DCREATE()

https://documentation.sas.com/?docsetId=lefunctionsref&docsetTarget=p1aj29pf4cxnirn15q5hmf0tv438.htm&docsetVersion=9.4&locale=en

If you're new to SAS you may want to first make sure this works without macro logic and then implement the macro logic.

@Ragineejoshi wrote:

Hi SAS Experts,

I need help with this problem.

Suppose you are study lead and have been given a task to create standard folder structure for your study.

I have to create a macro that will take path as input ..

DATA
--sdtm
--adam
--raw
PROGRAM
--sdtm
--adam
--tlg
QCPROGRAM
--sdtm
----output
--adam
-----output
--tlg
----output
OUTPUT
--tlg
DOC
--email

(Requirements: check whether path parameter is non missing (Required or mandatory), if its missing then send user generated error message and exit out
else if Check whether the path passed by the users exist on the server, if not the send user generated error message and exit out of the macro.

then you create folder structure.)

Re: create standard folder structure for your study

ballardw — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 22:27:52 GMT

You comments about "server" and "users" bring up several concerns about permissions and access that may be external to SAS or your SAS system. Also will your users know how to place a path on the server correctly?