topic How to access path of desktop in user's computer through macro variable in SAS Programming

How to access path of desktop in user's computer through macro variable

dijl — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 03:04:24 GMT

There is a piece of code needed to be submiteed by many other users, the paths of desktop vary in different computers, and I want to output the result of submission to desktop of each user, how to access desktop in coding? Ask each user to change the output destination path is boring as there are many users and lots of them don't know how to change it.

Re: How to access path of desktop in user's computer through macro variable

LinusH — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 04:30:55 GMT

Desktop computing seem a bit old fashioned, but ok.
Why kind of code and output are we talking about?
What SAS license does your SAS clients have? Any server SAS in the environment?
Having SAS and programs in shared location might help?

Re: How to access path of desktop in user's computer through macro variable

Kurt_Bremser — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 05:59:17 GMT

Use HTML/HTTP as medium

- have the code create a $HOME/public_html directory, if it does not exist already

- write the output there with ods html (example filename $HOME/public_html/output.html)

- let the users open http://servername/~username/output.html in a browser

This of course assumes that

- your server runs UNIX

- has a HTTP server running

- the default configuration of the HTTP server regarding user directories has not been changed

Re: How to access path of desktop in user's computer through macro variable

Reeza — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 08:52:13 GMT

I'd be pretty peeved at a tool that dumped files on my desktop.

You dont have a common location such as C:\_localdata\exports

Or perhaps add a %window that asks a user to specify the output path.

Re: How to access path of desktop in user's computer through macro variable

Kurt_Bremser — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 08:54:25 GMT

@Reeza wrote:

I'd be pretty peeved at a tool that dumped files on my desktop.

<grin>