topic Re: SAS common Snippet Libraries in SAS Programming

SAS common Snippet Libraries

stew90210 — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 11:34:37 GMT

Hi all,

I have spent a good couple of days on google trying to work this one out, to no avail, so your insight is greatly appreciated.

I am currently the business SME for an on prem SAS9.4 to cloud based VIYA migration and am trying to make sure we get the most out of the new platform. I was excited to learn about snippets for the 50+ users I represent I thought it would be a great idea to have a common snippet library where tasks that relate specifically to our data could be placed...

as far as I can tell the concept of common snippet libraries is now obsolete:

https://documentation.sas.com/doc/en/webeditorcdc/v_027/webeditorag/n1qixwnypmqnwnn14ok1t4hgvxjd.htm

but I cannot find a reason why or a suitable alternative.

does anyone know if they are still possible and if so how you set up and use them?

thanks in advance

Re: SAS common Snippet Libraries

Reeza — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 16:43:51 GMT

Link to repositories, ie Github/Gitlab

Re: SAS common Snippet Libraries

Tom — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 17:01:20 GMT

I don't play with VIYA yet, but from that page you linked it looks like there was a way to convert TASKS in to "CUSTOM STEPS".

Perhaps you could convert your snippets into STEPS also?

Re: SAS common Snippet Libraries

stewart_Jardine — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 20:32:40 GMT

Yea I did think about that but it seems like a git repository might be a bit annoying to negotiate through for one or two lines of code, with snippets you can just shortcuts and descriptions

Re: SAS common Snippet Libraries

stewart_Jardine — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 20:34:18 GMT

I think custom steps tend to be slightly more complex things and I also don't know that custom steps can be shared in common repositories either

Re: SAS common Snippet Libraries

Reeza — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 20:42:23 GMT

I was thinking along the lines of the Github gists? Or Gitlab snippets itself?

That's what I use to store my random SAS code tidbits.
https://gist.github.com/statgeek

Re: SAS common Snippet Libraries

stewart_Jardine — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 22:05:17 GMT

That's very interesting! Will take a closer look tomorrow, but could absolutely be what I'm looking for!