topic Re: Launch a url in the browser and click the link in SAS Programming

Launch a url in the browser and click the link

radha009 — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 20:01:55 GMT

How to program in SAS to launch a url in IE Browser on my computer and click on a link?

Re: Launch a url in the browser and click the link

Kurt_Bremser — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 20:09:28 GMT

@radha009 wrote:

How to program in SAS to launch a url in IE Browser on my computer and click on a link?

This question can not sufficiently be answered without knowledge of your SAS architecture.

Do you run SAS locally, or on a remote server?
How do you interface with SAS? (Display Manager, SAS Studio, Enterprise Guide)

Re: Launch a url in the browser and click the link

Quentin — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 20:33:03 GMT

On windows from a command prompt, you can run:

start iexplore "http://sas.com"

To open IE to sas.com.

So if you're in PC SAS, it could be a simple as submitting:

x 'start iexplore "http://sas.com"' ;

That will open internet explorer to a specified URL. Clicking a link would take some sort of automation. But if you just want to get to one URL, probably easiest to just specify it in the command.

But as @Kurt_Bremser mentioned, this approach may not work in your SAS environment.