topic Re: Suppress the GOPTIONS statement in SAS Enterprise Guide

Suppress the GOPTIONS statement

Karlijn — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 12:08:04 GMT

In our organization we don't have SAS/GRAPH insalled, so we always see the errors in the log file while generation a AG Project (see explanation below from SAS)

"Enables you to suppress the GOPTIONS statement that is automatically added to the SAS code that SAS Enterprise Guide generates. You might want to select this option if you do not have SAS/GRAPH installed on your SAS server. If you do not have SAS/GRAPH installed on your SAS server, then the GOPTIONS statement generates an error in the log file."

Everytime I re-open a project or select an new project de "supress" selection is turned off. How can I make sure that the selections keeps supressed (as shown in the attached picture)?

Re: Suppress the GOPTIONS statement

andreas_lds — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 13:13:21 GMT

Which version of EG is used? Are other options properly saved?

Re: Suppress the GOPTIONS statement

Kurt_Bremser — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 13:52:57 GMT

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Re: Suppress the GOPTIONS statement

Karlijn — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 14:04:34 GMT

Thanks for the hint! I was already wondering if this was the only solution :).

Re: Suppress the GOPTIONS statement

Karlijn — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 14:11:31 GMT

The version we use is EG 5.1.

Only after restarting my computer the choosen options disappear (also other options).

Re: Suppress the GOPTIONS statement

andreas_lds — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 14:41:42 GMT

That is an ancient version 😉

And EG runs on your local computer, not on Citrix or something alike?

Contacting Tech-Support or your local sas-admins seems to be a good idea.

Re: Suppress the GOPTIONS statement

Karlijn — Mon, 12 Mar 2018 07:16:32 GMT

Thanks,

My computer runs on Citrix. I was wondering if this could cause the problem indeed because the settings only disappear after restaring the computer.

Re: Suppress the GOPTIONS statement

CaseySmith — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 16:33:50 GMT

That (your Citrix configuration) is almost certainly the issue then. Your EG options are stored in this xml file (in your appdata user location):

%appdata%\SAS\EnterpriseGuide\7.1\EGOptions.xml

(ex. C:\Users\<userid>\AppData\Roaming\SAS\EnterpriseGuide\7.1\EGOptions.xml)

It sounds like your Citrix environment is not preserving updates to that file between sessions, thus changes to your EG options are lost.

Casey