topic Re: metadata in EG in SAS Enterprise Guide https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/metadata-in-EG/m-p/175731#M13501 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>This may be useful to you. As far as I am aware EG projects are not self-documenting nor do they get automatically added to SAS server metadata.</P><P></P><P><A href="http://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/2013/01/25/egp-search-tool2/" title="http://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/2013/01/25/egp-search-tool2/">http://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/2013/01/25/egp-search-tool2/</A></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 19 Feb 2015 23:47:55 GMT SASKiwi 2015-02-19T23:47:55Z metadata in EG https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/metadata-in-EG/m-p/175729#M13499 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P></P><P>Can a SAS EG project generate its own metadata?&nbsp; In particular, I'm looking for a list dataset names and respective variable names that an EG project points to, something similar to SASHELP.VCOLUMN in base SAS?</P><P></P><P>Rommel</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 19 Feb 2015 22:24:52 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/metadata-in-EG/m-p/175729#M13499 dataMart87 2015-02-19T22:24:52Z Re: metadata in EG https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/metadata-in-EG/m-p/175730#M13500 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Most of this information would only 'exist' as the result of running the project.&nbsp; After which you could collect the information using things like the dictionary tables.&nbsp; The egp file itself will contain some information you may be looking for, but also, this is pretty much only after a project is run.&nbsp; Depending on specifically what you want there are some caveats or other ways of going about collecting the information, but nothing probably as easy as you are hoping for. </P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 19 Feb 2015 23:36:46 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/metadata-in-EG/m-p/175730#M13500 FriedEgg 2015-02-19T23:36:46Z Re: metadata in EG https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/metadata-in-EG/m-p/175731#M13501 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>This may be useful to you. As far as I am aware EG projects are not self-documenting nor do they get automatically added to SAS server metadata.</P><P></P><P><A href="http://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/2013/01/25/egp-search-tool2/" title="http://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/2013/01/25/egp-search-tool2/">http://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/2013/01/25/egp-search-tool2/</A></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 19 Feb 2015 23:47:55 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/metadata-in-EG/m-p/175731#M13501 SASKiwi 2015-02-19T23:47:55Z Re: metadata in EG https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/metadata-in-EG/m-p/175732#M13502 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>In addition to the EGP Searcher referenced by <A __default_attr="312252" __jive_macro_name="user" class="jive_macro jive_macro_user" href="https://communities.sas.com/" modifiedtitle="true" title="SASKiwi, "></A><SPAN style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em;">you can also </SPAN><A href="http://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/2012/05/15/how-long-will-eg-process-run/" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em;">try the Project Reviewer task</A><SPAN style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em;">.&nbsp; And you can use the automation API to write scripts <A class="active_link" href="http://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/2012/04/17/doing-more-with-sas-enterprise-guide-automation/">that "scrape" details from your project.</A></SPAN></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em;"><BR /></SPAN></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em;">Chris<BR /></SPAN></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em;"><BR /></SPAN></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em;"><BR /></SPAN></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5em;"><BR /></SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 20 Feb 2015 00:52:15 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/metadata-in-EG/m-p/175732#M13502 ChrisHemedinger 2015-02-20T00:52:15Z