topic Re: Extract Prompt information from EG in SAS Enterprise Guide

Extract Prompt information from EG

PatriceB — Tue, 04 Jul 2017 17:39:11 GMT

Hello to you all 🙂

Is there a way to extract the PROMPTS ("invite" in french) information? (Name, type, low value, high vaule, etc...)

I'm very familiar with SAS Dictionary tables but this info doesn't seems to be there. I did my 15 min research effort with no chance.

Thanks in advance for your prompt reply.

Happy 4th of July to who'm it may apply 🙂

Re: Extract Prompt information from EG

Reeza — Tue, 04 Jul 2017 17:52:16 GMT

Prompts are stored as macro variables. You should be able to find the values in the SASHELP.MACRO table.

@PatriceB wrote:

Hello to you all 🙂

Is there a way to extract the PROMPTS ("invite" in french) information? (Name, type, low value, high vaule, etc...)

I'm very familiar with SAS Dictionary tables but this info doesn't seems to be there. I did my 15 min research effort with no chance.

Thanks in advance for your prompt reply.

Happy 4th of July to who'm it may apply 🙂

Re: Extract Prompt information from EG

PatriceB — Tue, 04 Jul 2017 17:59:54 GMT

Hello Reeza

Thanks for your prompt reply.

You're absolutely right about the dictionary.macros content. There is still a little something missing there.

Where do I find the validation element of thoses prompts? Date, Date interval, numeric, nemeric interval, etc... Low value, hight value, default value, ertc...

Re: Extract Prompt information from EG

PatriceB — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 18:31:46 GMT

Hello Reeza and a few other that replied in private.

After writing to SAS tech Support, I've got an answer that those are saved within the EG Project file and are not available in anyway other then by the menu.

Did ask to have this available in a future version if possible. That would have helped me on my current project.

Have fun guys 🙂

Re: Extract Prompt information from EG

Reeza — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 20:23:47 GMT

You can add feature requests here:

https://communities.sas.com/t5/SASware-Ballot-Ideas/idb-p/sas_ideas

People can vote on it and SAS support will comment if the feature will be developed or not in plan for now.