Launch a url in the browser and click the link

[radha009]

How to program in SAS to launch a url in IE Browser on my computer and click on a link? 

[Kurt_Bremser]

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@radha009 wrote:

How to program in SAS to launch a url in IE Browser on my computer and click on a link? 

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This question can not sufficiently be answered without knowledge of your SAS architecture.

• Do you run SAS locally, or on a remote server?
• How do you interface with SAS? (Display Manager, SAS Studio, Enterprise Guide)

[Quentin]

On windows from a command prompt, you can run:

start iexplore "http://sas.com"

To open IE to sas.com.

So if you're in PC SAS, it could be a simple as submitting:

x 'start iexplore "http://sas.com"' ;

That will open internet explorer to a specified URL.  Clicking a link would take some sort of automation.  But if you just want to get to one URL, probably easiest to just specify it in the command.

But as @Kurt_Bremser mentioned, this approach may not work in your SAS environment.