topic Re: Display Last Login date in SAS Enterprise Guide

Display Last Login date

felyp222 — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 21:05:09 GMT

I have the following task: When a user opens the Enterprise Guide from the local machine, a pop up message must be display with a message like : 'Welcome USER -your last login date : 6 October 2016'

Now, I'm facing with two problem:

1. how and what do I need to set up o for each user that connects to Enterprise Guide to dispay a personalize message when the application is open (server is connected). I have tried the command %put &userid in autoexec, but no effect.

2. I set up an appender so I can collect the information about the last login date into a log file, but when I try to read the data from the log, i have the message :' ERROR: A lock is not available for ...'.

Can you please help me with some suggestions?

Re: Display Last Login date

ChrisHemedinger — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 21:05:38 GMT

You could probably have a custom task to do something like this...but I'm not sure if the customer experience will be super smooth.

Here's an example of a similar, but different, task.

Re: Display Last Login date

felyp222 — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 11:58:30 GMT

Thank you very much for your response. It is a very interesting task, and I like the solution.

For my task I will need to find a way so the user must be informed about the last date when was logged on.

In Option- I saw an options in SAS Programs

Submit SAS code when server is connected

I write a simple %put User-ID: &sysuserid; but did not see anything when I opend EG.

Do you have any idee if and how can I use this option for what I need?

Re: Display Last Login date

TomKari — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 12:21:02 GMT

What if you were to write a simple non-SAS program that does what you need, and then this program calls EG?

Tom

Re: Display Last Login date

felyp222 — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 12:30:31 GMT

Thank you Tom , what I need is to inform the user about the last login date when opens Sas Enterprise Guide .

Some how a message must be displayed when EG is open

Re: Display Last Login date

TomKari — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 13:20:29 GMT

Yes, what I'm suggesting is write a quick program that:

1. Checks if there's a previous date stashed

2. If there is, displays a message with that date

3. Updates that date by stashing the current date

4. Proceeds to call EG

Very kludgy, but I can't thing of anything else.

Tom