I would like to automatically save the overall project log for a SAS EG project to the folder in which the project is saved.
I can obviously point and click my way to the folder when exporting the log, but I would like to avoid these steps. I also have parallel execution of several programs so I cannot simply output the log for each program to the same file (i.e. proc printto log = "&path.\projectLog.log"; run;)
If you want one log for program. you could do something like:
proc printto log = "&path.\&program..log";
run;
I think EG might create an automatic macro variable similar to &program with the name of the current program. If not, there are ways find out.
This solution does not solve my problem - i.e. there are multiple programs running in parallel so printing to the same log file within each proc printto fails.
The variable &_ClientProjectPath has the name of the egp including full path, enclosed in single quotes. To get the path only, you can use something like:
data _null_;
path = substr(&_ClientProjectPath, 1, findc(&_ClientProjectPath, '/\', 1, 'b') -1);
call symputx('cpp', path);
run;
This is helpful as the first step, but I still can't figure out how to programmatically access the project log. Right now I right click on the last program in the process flow, choose "Share" . . . "Export as a step in the project", choose the "Project Log", and then manually point and click to the desired save location. I would like to just have a program I could place at the end of a process flow to save off the log.
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