topic Re: question about Tools...Options in SAS Enterprise Guide

question about Tools...Options

frisco — Tue, 04 May 2010 14:44:20 GMT

Hi, an End-user complained that an option changed (specifically, the "prompt before replacing results") since the last time she used EG. Any idea why this would happen? Strangely, she has customized the appearance of EG and that was NOT affected. Any help would be greatly appeciated.

Re: question about Tools...Options

RichardH_sas — Tue, 04 May 2010 16:13:32 GMT

Sounds odd. For EG 4.2, the options settings are in a file (EGOptions.xml) on her local Windows machine. If this file was modified or replaced, it would affect her option settings.

The window arrangement in EG isn't controlled through options (I think), so it wouldn't surprise me that it was unaffected.

Re: question about Tools...Options

frisco — Tue, 04 May 2010 16:39:26 GMT

sorry - forgot to mention that it is EG 4.1 that I am talking about.

Re: question about Tools...Options

ChrisHemedinger — Wed, 05 May 2010 12:53:55 GMT

This is stored in EGOptions.xml, which you control in Tools->Options. I don't know how the setting might have changed without using the Options dialog.

When you run an entire process flow, EG does not prompt you about replacing results, regardless of option settings. It affects only the single one-at-a-time approach to running tasks.

Chris

Re: question about Tools...Options

frisco — Wed, 05 May 2010 15:43:01 GMT

Which folder is EGOptions stored in? I can't seem to find it.

Re: question about Tools...Options

ChrisHemedinger — Sat, 08 May 2010 01:13:00 GMT

It's in "%appdata%\SAS\Enterprise Guide\4" (%appdata% resolves to your Windows profile location).

Chris