topic Re: How to customize custom steps on SAS Viya SAS Studio in SAS Studio

How to customize custom steps on SAS Viya SAS Studio

ShenQicheng — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 12:10:05 GMT

Hi,

I'm migrating Enterprise Guide custom task to SAS Studio and find that the best solutiong is to create a custom step with the same UI.

Using SAS Studio custom task is not an option because it can not be added to a SAS Studio flow.

Here are my challenges,

when a column in a column selector control is selected, user can set some additional properties that is needed when generating sas code.
the step has two input data and user can set the join conditions
columns of the output data can be inherited from either of the input data or be calculated using input data

These functions are implemented on EG custom task by using c#.
On SAS Studio these can be done by combining some built-in steps with simple custom steps, but is it possible that I can create my own controls so I can implement all these functions in one step, so that user can do all these in a single custom step?

I am using Viya 2022.1.

Re: How to customize custom steps on SAS Viya SAS Studio

DJongman — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 12:23:29 GMT

Custom steps can be added to a flow:

How to make a custom step:

https://documentation.sas.com/doc/en/webeditorcdc/v_017LTS/webeditorsteps/n1am9lk9ec29lyn1cuplosqq60d7.htm

From the documentation:

Note: The Custom Step functionality is available only if your site licenses SAS Studio Analyst or SAS Studio Engineer. Custom steps are not available in the Interactive perspective.

What Version of SAS Studio Are You Running?

https://documentation.sas.com/doc/en/webeditorcdc/v_024/webeditorag/p14ailcd9ouczan1pph34bgl84b6.htm

Re: How to customize custom steps on SAS Viya SAS Studio

ShenQicheng — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 02:10:33 GMT

I'm running SAS Studio Engineer.

Re: How to customize custom steps on SAS Viya SAS Studio

DJongman — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 07:25:20 GMT

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkI0mysfAkQ

for an example how to create a custom step and add it to a flow

Re: How to customize custom steps on SAS Viya SAS Studio

ShenQicheng — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 10:42:08 GMT

Thanks @DJongman .

I do know how to create custom steps and add them to flow.
I'm asking for solutions for the points that I listed in my first post that can not implement (or I don't know how) on the current version of SAS Studio