Solved: How to duplicate PC-SAS help bookmarks

mkeintz · Posted 11-12-2019 02:22 PM

I'm installing SAS on a new windows machine. Can anybody suggest where I should look for the set of bookmarks I developed in the help tab in the installation of PC-SAS on my old windows machine? Windows Registry perhaps?

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The hash OUTPUT method will overwrite a SAS data set, but not append. That can be costly. Consider voting for Add a HASH object method which would append a hash object to an existing SAS data set

Would enabling PROC SORT to simultaneously output multiple datasets be useful? Then vote for
Allow PROC SORT to output multiple datasets

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FreelanceReinh · Posted 11-12-2019 02:57 PM

Hi Mark,

On my Windows 7 workstation these bookmarks are in a file named MVA-bookmarks.txt in

C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\DocViewer

In the same folder there's the file SASDocViewer-bookmarks.txt containing the bookmarks from the separate application "SAS Documentation Viewer 9.4" (sasdocviewer.exe), which I prefer to the built-in help file viewer.

Edit: Thanks for asking the question. I only knew that the bookmarks had moved somewhere since they were no longer in C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\HTML Help\hh.dat, which was their location under Windows Server 2008.

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FreelanceReinh · Posted 11-12-2019 02:57 PM

Hi Mark,

On my Windows 7 workstation these bookmarks are in a file named MVA-bookmarks.txt in

C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\DocViewer

In the same folder there's the file SASDocViewer-bookmarks.txt containing the bookmarks from the separate application "SAS Documentation Viewer 9.4" (sasdocviewer.exe), which I prefer to the built-in help file viewer.

Edit: Thanks for asking the question. I only knew that the bookmarks had moved somewhere since they were no longer in C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\HTML Help\hh.dat, which was their location under Windows Server 2008.

mkeintz · Posted 11-12-2019 10:34 PM

Thanks @FreelanceReinh.

I found the file just where you said it would be. And I see I can move the bookmarks around too. It's ugly, but doable - something the built-in help file viewer doesn't support.

I'll have to take a look at the DocViewer.

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The hash OUTPUT method will overwrite a SAS data set, but not append. That can be costly. Consider voting for Add a HASH object method which would append a hash object to an existing SAS data set

Would enabling PROC SORT to simultaneously output multiple datasets be useful? Then vote for
Allow PROC SORT to output multiple datasets

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