topic Re: Accept input from report analyst in SAS Enterprise Guide

Accept input from report analyst

noobs — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 13:49:26 GMT

Hello EG Users,

As I understand, it is possible to accept input from user by means of Prompts in Enterprise Guide and use it as dynamic variable in queries to pull only relevant data.

Once the output is ready and charts are designed, if Analyst wants to add comments to the chart, is it doable? Is there a way to give analyst prompt so that their insights can be embedded in the final report? What I am looking for is simple text field that accepts text from analyst and embeds it in the report. In summary, final report is hybrid version of what the numbers tell the story as well as additional findings from wealth of experience that analyst has accumulated over several years?

Thank You,

Dhanashree

Re: Accept input from report analyst

DBailey — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 14:00:06 GMT

If you define a text prompt (say pComment), I believe you can associate that prompt with the code that generates the report and use it as you would a macro variable.

TITLE &pComment;

or some such thing.

Re: Accept input from report analyst

noobs — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 19:26:21 GMT

That sounds like what I might be looking for. Can you please specify where in SAS Enterprise Guide, I will be able to define text prompt?

In the above code, &pComment is expected to contain input that user enters, is that right?

Thanks!

Re: Accept input from report analyst

DBailey — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 18:26:45 GMT

If you right-click on the node and select properties, you should be able to get to the prompt manager.

Re: Accept input from report analyst

Fugue — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 18:30:21 GMT

You could also use the ODS TEXT= statement to add notes to output.

Re: Accept input from report analyst

noobs — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 20:11:28 GMT

Hi Fugue,

SO in the statement above if Insight is one of my prompts, then

ODS TEXT=insight

will add notes to output. Is that correct?

Re: Accept input from report analyst

ballardw — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 20:32:21 GMT

The text should be in quotes:

ODS Text='This is the text I want to appear in the output';

If you want a macro variable to resolve the quotes have to be double quotes.