topic Re: Prompts in Base 9.4 (DMS)? in SAS Programming

Prompts in Base 9.4 (DMS)?

Rohit12 — Tue, 03 Jan 2017 11:05:52 GMT

Can we create prompts in SAS 9.4 as we do in SAS enetrprise guide

Re: SAS 9.4

Reeza — Mon, 02 Jan 2017 09:29:26 GMT

SAS 9.4 is a version, while SAS EG is a tool to access SAS.

SAS EG can use SAS 9.4.

Are you referring to SAS Studio? Or Base SAS?

Re: SAS 9.4

Rohit12 — Mon, 02 Jan 2017 09:32:23 GMT

I am refering to base SAS . I need to create prompts in SAS 9.4 tool

Re: SAS 9.4

Reeza — Mon, 02 Jan 2017 09:39:39 GMT

SAS 9.4 doesn't have prompts the same way EG does. You can look at %Windows for Base SAS. There is a multitude of papers on lexjansen.com with sample code.

Re: SAS 9.4

LinusH — Mon, 02 Jan 2017 16:05:27 GMT

DMS (Display Manager System) or in everyday language Base SAS (UI) is no longer developed, so I would recommend not to develop any UI on top of it.

Re: SAS 9.4

Cynthia_sas — Mon, 02 Jan 2017 17:50:30 GMT

Hi:
Typically, if you are creating stored processes, with the intent of using the Prompting interface, then any macro variables you use in your program can be defined as prompts when you register the stored process. However, the Display Manager interface does not have a way to define prompts. The Enterprise Guide interface allows you to define prompts that can be used through the entire project and EG also has the prompting interface as an interface layer on top of SAS. Once you have defined your prompts in EG (based on macro variables), then if/when you create a stored process from that project, your prompt is automatically carried over to the stored process.

The bottom line answer to your question is that SAS Display Manager does not have a prompting interface like EG. But you can still use Macro variables in your code. You just can't prompt users for the values when you run the program without using some other interface, such as SAS/AF or the %WINDOW facility.

cynthia

Re: Prompts in Base 9.4 (DMS)?

mnjtrana — Wed, 04 Jan 2017 10:13:55 GMT

Hey,

you can use %window macro to interact with the user, through the window prompt.

you can see below paper for more example.

http://www2.sas.com/proceedings/sugi27/p192-27.pdf

Re: Prompts in Base 9.4 (DMS)?

Cynthia_sas — Wed, 04 Jan 2017 22:30:34 GMT

But typically %WINDOW will not work with EG installations. So if the developer has SAS DMS, but the end users have EG, then %WINDOW might not be the best choice.

cynthia