topic Re: Execute Parts of an EG Project from Another EG Project in SAS Enterprise Guide

Execute Parts of an EG Project from Another EG Project

Doug____ — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 13:11:45 GMT

How can parts of an EG project be executed from within another EG project? I received a customer request to run only certain reports from a larger project, but I prefer not to make a copy of the original project do to this. How can it be done?

Re: Execute Parts of an EG Project from Another EG Project

jennifert — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 15:17:25 GMT

Hi @Doug____ ,

Would it work for you to create a process flow or ordered list in the larger project and include only the specific reports that the customer wants? Here are a couple help topics from the SAS Enterprise Guide 8.2 help, tho the functionality would be similar in other versions:

Working with Process Flows

Creating an Ordered List of Tasks

thanks,

Jennifer

Re: Execute Parts of an EG Project from Another EG Project

Doug____ — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 16:02:24 GMT

This will work - however I would like to avoid modifying the existing project if possible. Ideally if I could have the ordered list setup in one project to execute the code in another this would be ideal primarily because this is a month-end project and I only need two reports from it executed on the 15th of each month. This way I could have the main project and the sub project (eventually) set in a scheduler to execute the items on the correct days if that makes sense.

Re: Execute Parts of an EG Project from Another EG Project

jennifert — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 17:59:13 GMT

Hi @Doug____ ,

As far as I know, unless the code that you want to run is saved as one or more external program files that you could then include in a second project, you can't access code in one project from another project.

We can check with @CaseySmith, tho, to be sure and to see if he has any other ideas.

thanks!

Jennifer

Re: Execute Parts of an EG Project from Another EG Project

TomKari — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 18:22:06 GMT

I wonder if you might be able to do it using the Enterprise Guide automation facilities, but that would be A LOT of work!

Tom