topic Re: bug in eg: entering in date prompt in SAS Enterprise Guide

bug in eg: entering in date prompt

tomrvincent — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 16:22:13 GMT

if you enter a date as m/d/yy EG will consider it an error...yet if you then click the calendar button, it magically knows exactly what date you entered!

Re: bug in eg: entering in date prompt

Reeza — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 16:30:02 GMT

Sounds like you should be talking to tech support here.

Re: bug in eg: entering in date prompt

ballardw — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 17:50:57 GMT

What properties did you assign the fields from and to?

Do you get the same behavior entering 02/01/18 or 02/01/2018?

Re: bug in eg: entering in date prompt

tomrvincent — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 16:28:21 GMT

They're just defined as date ranges. 02/01/18 works, but 2/1/18 doesn't, yet it recognizes it in the calendar...weird.

Re: bug in eg: entering in date prompt

Reeza — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 19:31:17 GMT

Definitely sounds like a tech support question then.

@tomrvincent wrote:

They're just defined as date ranges. 02/01/18 works, but 2/1/18 doesn't, yet it recognizes it in the calendar...weird.

Re: bug in eg: entering in date prompt

tomrvincent — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 19:41:14 GMT

yep...thanks for the reminder. here's the reply I got.

Hi Tom,

Thank you for reporting this. I can replicate easily. And our documentation clearly states that you should be able to enter a date in the "12/12/18" format when selecting a value for a date prompt. The SAS Enterprise Guide help states that EG automatically converts a date entered in mm/dd/yy format to mm/dd/yyyy format. It very obviously does not do this.

I am entering a defect on this today.

Best Regards,