https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/can-t-seem-to-edit-a-query-builder-when-the-data-is-not/m-p/25597#M3803 You can't. Eguide tasks rely heavily on the physical attributes of their inputs. When absent they will not work. I find this one of the (many) differences with Data Integration Studio which is fundamentally based upon metadata.<BR /> <BR /> If this is an issue for you consider saving your intermediate results permanently, e.g. by using the EGTASK or SASUSER library. You can control this by setting Options. Be careful not to fill up your storage however. Giving meaningful names to the intermediate tables (instead of QUERY_FOR_...) helps. A lot.<BR /> <BR /> Regards, Jan. Wed, 09 Mar 2011 21:23:58 GMT jklaverstijn 2011-03-09T21:23:58Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/can-t-seem-to-edit-a-query-builder-when-the-data-is-not/m-p/25596#M3802 i'd like to be able to edit and save a query builder even if sas thinks the source tables are not available. can this be done? Wed, 09 Mar 2011 20:40:29 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/can-t-seem-to-edit-a-query-builder-when-the-data-is-not/m-p/25596#M3802 goat 2011-03-09T20:40:29Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/can-t-seem-to-edit-a-query-builder-when-the-data-is-not/m-p/25597#M3803 You can't. Eguide tasks rely heavily on the physical attributes of their inputs. When absent they will not work. I find this one of the (many) differences with Data Integration Studio which is fundamentally based upon metadata.<BR /> <BR /> If this is an issue for you consider saving your intermediate results permanently, e.g. by using the EGTASK or SASUSER library. You can control this by setting Options. Be careful not to fill up your storage however. Giving meaningful names to the intermediate tables (instead of QUERY_FOR_...) helps. A lot.<BR /> <BR /> Regards, Jan. Wed, 09 Mar 2011 21:23:58 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/can-t-seem-to-edit-a-query-builder-when-the-data-is-not/m-p/25597#M3803 jklaverstijn 2011-03-09T21:23:58Z