Introducing SAS Enterprise Guide 8.1!

[AmyP_sas]

It's here!  Announcing the release of SAS Enterprise Guide 8.1 (available beginning 18JUN2019).  The redefined EG 8.1 sports:

• A modern interface
• Tab-based organization of content
• Flexible window management, such as floating, docking, and leveraging multiple monitors

Want to view your code, log, and results at the same time? EG 8.1 has you covered. Want to view four data sets at the same time? Sure, no problem. Want to just code, without a project? You got it.

The video below hits a few of the highlights and you can see a full list of new features in this what's-new summary.

Editor's Note: This SAS Global Forum paper by @DavidBailey, @samdupont and @CaseySmith, Celebrity Makeover: A Fresh and Modern Look for SAS Enterprise Guide, covers some of the same territory in words and screenshots.

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To help you roll EG 8.1 out at your own organization, feel free to use the attached presentation and summary. We'll be adding more videos & other assets, so please tell us what you need.  And, as always, we'd love to hear your feedback!

[PaigeMiller]

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Want to view your code, log, and results at the same time? EG 8.1 has you covered. Want to view four data sets at the same time? Sure, no problem. Want to just code, without a project? You got it.

This seems to eliminate my biggest reason for not using EG. I would love to try it, as soon as my organization upgrades to 8.1 (which might not be for a few months/years/decades, you never know).

[Kurt_Bremser]

PLEASE MAKE THE STANDALONE INSTALLER AVAILABLE FOR INDIVIDUAL DOWNLOAD! (not part of full-blown SAS depots only)

I'm begging on my knees here (picture available if needed for documentation).

[SASKiwi]

@Kurt_Bremser - I vote to see the picture! And having endured an over 10 hour full SAS depot download to get EG 8.1 I second that.

[blueboy714]

Good god - SAS version 8.1 totally sucks.  It's taking me days to try to understand what the heck was changed and how to undo it.  Black eye for SAS.

[ChrisHemedinger]

@blueboy714 Sorry to hear you're finding it confusing.  This tutorial might help you or others as you get oriented to the changed interface.

[PaigeMiller]

Can the font size be changed and made smaller? In my Base SAS 9.4, if I open SASHELP.CLASS via viewtable, I see the 19 observations take up less than 1/2 of my screen vertically; but in the video showing EG 8.1, the 19 observations take up about 3/4 of the screen.

[ChrisHemedinger]

@PaigeMiller - since EG 7.12, you've been able to zoom your view (larger and smaller) by using the standard Ctrl+/C..., or set a specific percentage for the scale.  So...you can easily fit more data in less space.

[PaigeMiller]

Nice! Up until a few days ago, we were using EG 7.1, now we're up to 7.15, which should have this font size capability, I will give it a try.

[Grinvydas]

Is it somewhere available as a standalone install, like EG 7.15 ?

[SASKiwi]

There is a standalone installer, but it is buried in a SAS Software Depot. There is no alternative to requesting an updated SAS Software Depot for your site. The auto update feature in EG will work for future updates beyond 8.1.

[Grinvydas]

Thank you SAS for doing it more complicated for the end users. If it's buried in SAS Software Depot, then it's not a standalone installer. It's a bit of a disappointment.

Can someone "dig it out" of the SAS Software Depot? 🙂

[Kurt_Bremser]

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@Grinvydas wrote:

Thank you SAS for doing it more complicated for the end users. If it's buried in SAS Software Depot, then it's not a standalone installer. It's a bit of a disappointment.

Can someone "dig it out" of the SAS Software Depot? 🙂

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I am completely with you. I am VERY disappointed by the "politics" with regards to the availability of the Enterprise Guide standalone installer.

Personally, as a customer (and "valued" member here) I feel ****** ** *** ***.

[eSAS]

Hi, I'm new here, but doesn't SAS EG 8.1 have new features that require an upgraded version of the back-end for them to work?

[SASKiwi]

@eSAS  - EG 8.1 will work with all reasonably recent versions of SAS. For example we are using it with SAS 9.4M2.