Automatically open SAS Code

[jcbell]

I have a requirement where users would like to view models (SAS Code) and I'd like to use SAS Studio as the interface.  Does anyone know of a way to pass Studio either the SAS code as a Object, stream on a macro variable or reference the code that is previously stored some place.

I'd like to send users a URLthat when clicked opens Studio witht the code loaded in the editor.

Thanks,

John

[Reeza]

So this is an interesting question, and hopefully SAS will comment as well.

Perhaps Jupyter notebooks will work for you internally? Literally hot off the press 🙂

http://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/2016/04/24/how-to-run-sas-programs-in-jupyter-notebook/

[AmyP_sas]

This is a requirement we've heard but I don't have anything to offer you yet.  The first folks that asked for this were other R&D groups at SAS.  Other applications want to use Studio to, for example, view a table, open a process flow diagram, open a task, or, as you mention, open the editor with specific code already displayed.  So basically "calling" Studio to come up in a certain state or with a certain asset open.  So what the Studio R&D team is working on is a more generalized command line framework (for lack of a better term) to provide a way for other SAS applications to invoke a SAS Studio session and perform actions in another browser tab.  I'm sorry I don't have an estimate for when this will be available, though.  

If you have a use case that doesn't seem to fit into what I'm describing, please post it so we can make sure to include it in the work going on.