We are now using the Prompt Container with a list to achieve this but it's pretty "clunky." It is difficult to resize the title within the Prompt Container. I found out that I could add spaces to the title but then it would not resize appropriately so we couldn't use that option. Hovering over a Prompt Container with a list gives a strange looking Tip with the word "Selections" and we can't seem to format that as well.   Although I appreciate the Prompt Container and the ability to add multiple controls,  I'm hoping for a one object multiple select drop-down control at some point!     ... View more

I work with SAS EG 8.2. Please add the functionality that a new programm code is created as an external UTF8 *.sas-file by default. Maybe you need two options, one for internal/external, one for encoding. Today a new programm code (a) is created by default as an embedded code and (b) you can save it by default only into external as latin (SAVE AS from the embedded menu). ... View more

Please provide a function "export all code in ordered list".   I found the functions "export all code in process flow" and "export all code in project". But there is no "export all code in ordered list".   For development I use the Enterprise Guide 8.2. To organize the project I make many small code pieces (e.g. import_data.sas, aggreate_data,sas, export_2_excel.sas). To run them in a controlled sequence I use ordered lists. At the end I want to have all source codes (*.sas files) combined into one "single.sas" file.   I tried to use process flows, but this feature doesn't allow to have a code piece (e.g. initialize_libnames) to be part of many process flows and it is very clumsy to organize the sequence of the code pieces. ... View more

From experiment I have determined that: ods graphics / imagename="myname"; Allows only letters, digits, underscore and space in myname. This is much more restrictive than file names, e.g. in ods html5 page="myname". Please allow many more characters which are valid in file names. Until this is done, please update the documentation to list the valid characters. I had to experiment to discover this. ... View more

The scrollbars showing within any pane (mainly within the program, but it happens whenever there is a vertical or horizontal scrollbar) are barely wide enough to grab with a normal mouse arrow. Need wider scrollbars please. Have attached screen for your convenience.   Plus if scrollbars are changed at some point please try not to copy MS Outlook where the scrollbars are invisible until you mouse to an area where they are supposed to be and then they appear when needed.  Please keep wider scrollbars visible at all times.   Thanks!       ... View more

  HREFLABELS and HREFLABPOS options are available is SAS/QC & SAS/STAT, it would be really useful to have these available is SAS/GRAPH too in order to label VREF & HREF lines easily.  Currently the only way to do this is with PROC ANNOTATE which is clumsy and difficult especially if you keep redrawing the graph and moving the reference line.   These 2 options are already written and it would make life so much easier in SAS/GRAPH if they were incorporated.    ... View more

Can increase the number of rows of data put out by ODS Excel to around 10,000 rows at all? Currently, I find that it struggles to get to 1,000 rows with 24 columns. While using PROC EXPORT or the XLSX library engine would get around this, that means that the ability to format the output would be lost. ... View more

Why choose just the first one? As a new SAS EG user I was failing to even realise there where additional process flows in a project because the view focus/pane was defaulting to Open Items rather than Project...... Even then, why not open all?  ... View more

When exporting from SAS Visual Analytics to Excel, only Formatted data is selected as the default. For many users, they may not realize that they are missing columns in the export because the Detailed data is selected. The preference would be for this default to be chosen for the company so it can be set either way.  ... View more

It is very possible to want to compare the day of the month from two terms or years with a 1Jun format and have the time series object sort by date. I had to add a string variable by extracting the day and month and then use custom sort in SAS VA on that specific variable and sort them one by one so that I could display the frequency in order in a line chart because there was no day and month date format available and so I couldn't use the time series chart.  If there is a DATE5. in SAS 9.4, why isn't there one in SAS VA?  ... View more

Hi   When you use a precision container to make a long report (longer than 100 %), you are not able to print. Long websites is common today. You can simply scroll down and down, but if you make a report in Visual Analtycs, where you should scroll and scroll, you are not able to print the entire report - all you get is the first page (or all objects in a messy not formatted order if you try to include hidden objects).   For inspiration on long reports, click this link: https://www.sas.com/content/dam/SAS/support/en/sas-global-forum-proceedings/2020/4171-2020.pdf  however, reports are not printable. Please make it printable:) ... View more

SAS needs similar functionality as RMarkdown that allows for code and output to be more directly controlled.    This would make it easier to create tutorials and reference materials for students, teaching and blog posts. Jupyter Notebook offers some functionality that's similar but doesn't have the full suite of capabilities as RMarkdown.    https://communities.sas.com/t5/ODS-and-Base-Reporting/create-SAS-help-pages-and-examples/m-p/716671#M24844 ... View more

I'm a newer user to SAS EG 8.3 and find viewing the program a little hard on the eyes.  It's very bright.  It would be nice to have the option to change the background color of the Project window.  I have already changed the background color in the Process Flow window.  More colors would be nice to have as well.  Thank you. ... View more

Even though the rule has been disabled to allow users to create scheduled jobs... The option to "Schedule as a job" or create a "New Job" is not greyed out in the applications... Even though the menu item allows the user to enter all the needed information to create a scheduled job, the end result is a scheduled job is not actually created which is what is desired.   However, this gives the impression that there is an issue with the software that the job wasn't scheduled, not that they don't have the permission to create a scheduled job.  The application option should be greyed out to reflect the permission rule.     ... View more

We have recently been upgraded at our site to the latest EG performance patch 5. Before this, all of the libraries were visible on the list after expanding SASAPP. This has now been replaced with a limit of 500, and a 'browse' option.    Many of our users have found this inconvenient, as we have over 1000 libraries, and especially since 'work' is not in the first 500.    There are workarounds, and I know about adding the option to the config files, but this is not an ideal solution as we do not have the right admin access to make the changes ourselves. It would be nice if this was an option within EG's preferences.   Thanks, Haydn ... View more

One of the most useful features of the improved EG Editor is Keyboard Macro shortcuts, to program many common actions of the editor with a keyboard shortcut(of your choice) e.g.(highlight data steps, procs,duplicate lines,delete lines, paste custom code).   I want to propose to make this development is sas studio, because any code editor is incomplete without this feature, because it is present in the best ones ej. (EG, Notepad++, Visual Studio, MSSMS, Vim, Toad, TextPad,etc.).   ... View more

I would like to be able to explicitly specify which StatGraph template to use in a call to Proc GRENDER.   Currently, Proc GRENDER relies on the ODS PATH setting at the time of execution.    The code snippet below is what I would really like to be able to do in a future release, at present this is not possible (under SAS9.4M6). I would not need to use the ODS PATH statement at all, and my Proc GRENDER would be very clear about where it will be looking for its template, in this case in the Daves_Templates Item Store contained in the MYTEMPS library.   Libname MYTEMPS "C:\Reporting\PROD\Templates"; Proc Template; Define StatGraph MyFirstGo / STORE= MYTEMPS.Daves_Templates; <Template Definition Goes Here> End; Run; ***********************************************************************************************************************************; *Ideally run the Proc SGRender completely independently of the current ODS PATH value. ; ***********************************************************************************************************************************; Proc SGRender Data =WORK.MyDataForCharting Template =MYTEMPS.Daves_Templates.MyFirstGo ; Run; Being able to explicitly specify the Libref/Item Store combination in the Proc GRENDER makes it clearer to read but also more amenable to a DEV/TEST/PROD type development cycle.   Downunder Dave Wellington   ... View more

Unless I'm missing the option, I don't see that there is a way to sort Rules in SAS Environment Manager.    It would be nice to be able to sort by the displayed columns by clicking the column either ascending or descending. ... View more

The table of contents output in the ODS HTML and PDF destinations is a hierarchical tree structure. Every procedure starts at the top level and may include several sub-levels. BY-processing adds a level. Some SAS/STAT procedures can produce many levels.   Repeats can be done with BY-processing this is fine: the contents are indented. If BY-processing is not possible, e.g. when using multiple procedures, all the contents headings will be "flat" at the top level and the repeat is difficult to see.   I would like to be able to control the level of indent in the table of contents. I know this can be done with PROC DOCUMENT but this is way too complex for a very simple requirement.   I propose adding a simple ODS statement ODS PROCINDENT=number; where number=0 represents no indent. Because of the way ODS outputs, it may be necessary to use the command before a  procedure to take effect after it. As an example: ods procindent=1; ods proclabel='Section 1'; proc print data=intro(where=(s=1)) description='Introduction'; run; proc glm data=cars; ... quit; ods procindent=0; proc plm restore=mystore; ... run; ods procindent=1; ods proclabel='Section 2'; proc print data=intro(where=(s=2)) description='Introduction'; run; ... etc ... This would have the effect of indenting the output of PROC GLM and PROC PLM under PROC PRINT. ... View more