topic Re: How do I create a navigational table of contents of SAS code in SAS EG? in SAS Enterprise Guide

How do I create a navigational table of contents of SAS code in SAS EG?

gil- — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 23:09:09 GMT

Hello,

I am a previous R user. In R Studio, you can make comment headings into a navigational table of contents by adding a different number of #s. For instance, if you start the comment with 4 #s it will create something akin to a heading 1, whereas a comment with 5 #s will be similar to a heading 2. It allows you to create sections and subsections, and you can navigate to each section through a generated table of contents based on the created headings. See attached screenshot.

Is there any way to do this or something similar to quickly navigate through a SAS file with a lot of code? I am using SAS Enterprise Guide version 8.3.7.202.

Thank you kindly.

Re: How do I create a navigational table of contents of SAS code in SAS EG?

Patrick — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 02:56:35 GMT

That looks useful but afaik there is nothing similar available in EG.

You could experiment if there is a VS code extension that gives you what you want for working with SAS code. ....that's of course only really worth it if your environment then also allows you to connect to a SAS Server via VS Code.

Re: How do I create a navigational table of contents of SAS code in SAS EG?

AlanC — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 14:55:09 GMT

You can build one using EG and C# (my preference). EG supports addons/extensions. Just use their interfaces and you can build whatever you want.

There are loads of examples by Chris Hemendinger. I also have some starter stuff on my github pages.

Other languages could work but I suggest you go C#: lot more flexibility; what EG is written in.