https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Keyword-Scan-EG-Project/m-p/711504#M219202 <P>How can one scan inside an EG project from another EG project looking for certain keywords? The purpose would be to determine where a specific table was referenced without having to manually open every project.</P> Thu, 14 Jan 2021 17:02:13 GMT Doug____ 2021-01-14T17:02:13Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Keyword-Scan-EG-Project/m-p/711504#M219202 <P>How can one scan inside an EG project from another EG project looking for certain keywords? The purpose would be to determine where a specific table was referenced without having to manually open every project.</P> Thu, 14 Jan 2021 17:02:13 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Keyword-Scan-EG-Project/m-p/711504#M219202 Doug____ 2021-01-14T17:02:13Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Keyword-Scan-EG-Project/m-p/711512#M219203 <P>No. I think it would require advanced methods using the EG API, i.e. using VBS, VBA or other scripting platforms.&nbsp;&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>I have used this code, from&nbsp;<a href="https://communities.sas.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4">@ChrisHemedinger</a>,&nbsp;&nbsp;to iterate through one project's code, but I have not used it to search the file system.&nbsp; I can envision it being done.</P> <P class="lia-indent-padding-left-30px"><A href="https://github.com/cjdinger/sas-eg-automation/blob/master/vbscript/ExtractCode.vbs" target="_blank">sas-eg-automation/ExtractCode.vbs at master · cjdinger/sas-eg-automation · GitHub</A></P> Thu, 14 Jan 2021 17:36:18 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Keyword-Scan-EG-Project/m-p/711512#M219203 PhilC 2021-01-14T17:36:18Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Keyword-Scan-EG-Project/m-p/711515#M219204 <P>I always have wished that EG could save its files in a way that the project's code was visible as text to OS so that the operating system could just perform text searches like the search you propose to do.</P> Thu, 14 Jan 2021 17:45:13 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Keyword-Scan-EG-Project/m-p/711515#M219204 PhilC 2021-01-14T17:45:13Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Keyword-Scan-EG-Project/m-p/711527#M219209 <P>Doesn't the Process flow window have an Export with options like "Export all code in process flow" or "Export all code in project"?</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>Manual step but should be able to get program text from that.</P> Thu, 14 Jan 2021 18:28:26 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Keyword-Scan-EG-Project/m-p/711527#M219209 ballardw 2021-01-14T18:28:26Z