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felyp222
Fluorite | Level 6

I have the following task: When a user opens the Enterprise Guide from the local machine, a pop up message must be display with a message like : 'Welcome USER -your last login date : 6 October 2016'

Now, I'm facing with two problem:

1. how and what do I need to set up o for each user that connects to Enterprise Guide to dispay a personalize message when the application is open (server is connected). I have tried the command %put &userid in autoexec, but no effect.


2. I set up an appender so I can collect the information about the last login date into a log file, but when I try to read the data from the log, i have the message :' ERROR: A lock is not available for ...'.

Can you please help me with some suggestions?

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ChrisHemedinger
Community Manager

You could probably have a custom task to do something like this...but I'm not sure if the customer experience will be super smooth. 

 

Here's an example of a similar, but different, task.

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felyp222
Fluorite | Level 6

Thank you very much for your response. It is a very interesting task, and I like the solution.

For my task I will need to find a way so the user must be informed about the last date when was logged on.

In Option- I saw an options in SAS Programs 

  • Submit SAS code when server is connected

I write a simple %put User-ID: &sysuserid; but did not see anything when I opend EG.

Do you have any idee if and how can I use this option for what I need?

 

 

TomKari
Onyx | Level 15

What if you were to write a simple non-SAS program that does what you need, and then this program calls EG?

 

Tom

felyp222
Fluorite | Level 6

Thank you  Tom

TomKari
Onyx | Level 15

Yes, what I'm suggesting is write a quick program that:

1. Checks if there's a previous date stashed

2. If there is, displays a message with that date

3. Updates that date by stashing the current date

4. Proceeds to call EG

 

Very kludgy, but I can't thing of anything else.

 

Tom

 

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