Does anyone know if there happens to be a shortcut key to show/hide the log summary window in EG 6.1? You can click it away but then it stays gone. Once I see any errors, warnings in my log, I want to quickly hide the log summary and get back to fixing my program! ... View more

I'm testing Enterprise Guide 6.1 (64-bit) at our site but ran into a really weird problem trying to run programs in batch mode. Chris Hemedinger explains how to use VBScript to do this ( Using SAS Enterprise Guide to run programs in batch - The SAS Dummy) and that worked fine using EG 4.3. Adapting the script for EG 6.1 was simple enough, just change CreateObject("SASEGObjectModel.Application.4.3") to CreateObject("SASEGObjectModel.Application.6.1"). The modified script worked if I ran it from a command line. Problem was, I wanted to use it in a text editor (PSPad) to run the current SAS file in batch. Using PSPad, I kept getting errors "Could not create object named "SASEGObjectModel.Application.6.1"". Using “c:\windows\system32\wscript.exe” or “c:\windows\sysWOW64\wscript.exe” made no difference. It turned out I had to use “C:\WINDOWS\sysnative\wscript.exe”. That is weird, since there is no “C:\WINDOWS\sysnative” directory. This issue is due to the fact that PSPad is a 32-bit application but EG 6.1 is 64-bit. “%windir%\system32” on 64-bit systems is actually reserved for the 64-bit version of wscript and similar programs and dlls. “%windir%\sysWOW64” contains 32-bit versions. If a 32-bit application attempts to access “%windir%\system32”, it is redirected to “%windir%\sysWOW64”. Usually, that would be fine, but not for EG 6.1. In that case, “%windir%\sysnative” should be used. WOW64 recognises sysnative as a special alias to indicate that the file system should not redirect the access. See Microsoft, File System Redirector for further details. At least that's my explanation! Hope this helps other as well. John Hendrickx ... View more

Is there a way to get abbreviation macros to work within a procedure? For example, I have an abbreviation "print8pt" with contents "style(data header obs obsheader)=[font_size=8pt]". If I type "pri" on an empty line in EG 4.3, this abbreviation appears in a list and I can expand it by pressing the tab key. But if I first type "proc print data=sashelp.class " and then try to use the abbreviation, I can't get it to work! A workaround is to type a semi-colon to terminate the proc print statement, use the abbreviation, then go back and delete the semi-colon. But is there a better way, preferably one where the abbreviation macro would only pop up while I'm writing a proc print statement? ... View more

I would like to be able to start EG with a different set of options for LAN use versus remote use. I've found the EG startup options using "<path>SEGuide.exe /?" in a command window. The "/listoptions" option produces a long list of option settings that can be used as startup options. For example: SEGuide.exe /option:autoDisplayGenDataOrResults=TRUE /option:graphDevice=ActiveX Apparently, each option has to be set as a separate "/option" specification, I wasn't able to list several options separted by ";". Also, 1 or 0 didn't work as booleans, it has to be true of false. However, the startup option I'm really interested in is the following: /option:@AlternateOptionFileName - Specific an alternative options configuration file for use. Format: @"/Path/Name". (It should be "specify" but this is what was reported in the startup options) Unfortunately, I can't get the configuration file to work. I've placed some startup options in a text file and started EG with SEGuide.exe" /option:@"\\<server>\private\jhendrickx\SASEG.profile" This has no impact on the settings but did create a file SASEG.profile.xml. This file had the same contents as %appdata%\SAS\EnterpriseGuide\4.3\profile.xml. I tried modifying this file and using it as startup file but that had no impact. So, has anyone else figured out how to get the startup file to work? There's no documentation I can find anywhere. I'm using EG 4.3 with SAS 9.2 under WinXP. ... View more