Unless your desktop/laptop is restricted to add software, you can install Chris' tool on your desktop without having to involve IT folks. My goal is to find/replace text strings within EG projects.  Not all people who code EG projects use links to outside code.  And when you have over 4000 EG projects to monitor or maintain then finding text strings is EXTREMELY cumbersome.  Ideally, I would have liked a FIND and REPLACE tool.  But Chris Hemedinger's tool can at least find the text string and provide an output that can be used as a check off list so if changes are needed, you can keep track of  what changes are needed. As for all code not being within EG projects, I can still do a text string search using existing tools outside of EG.  That is a minor task compared to opening each and every EG project, searching through each program node for a specific string.  I understand in the newer version of EG (7?) that there will be a search facility but it will not currently allow you to search other EG projects without opening each one.  Eventually, I will HOPE that SAS Institute will have such a tool as Chris' to make maintenance easier, including a FIND and REPLACE within an EG project but also able to do this outside of an EG project without having to open it first. Charles Patridge ... View more

To ALL, Chris Hemedinger of SAS Institute provided me with a solution that works.  The code/tool to do this is located at this URL - http://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/2013/01/25/egp-search-tool2/ You can download the tool on your Windows Platform and run the code without having to get your IT people involved. Thanks Chris for the tool and making it available to all. Charles Patridge ... View more

To ALL, Chris Hemedinger of SAS Institute provided me with a solution that works.  The code/tool to do this is located at this URL - http://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/2013/01/25/egp-search-tool2/ You can download the tool on your Windows Platform and run the code without having to get your IT people involved. Thanks Chris for the tool and making it available to all. Charles Patridge ... View more

Did you ever find / create a solution to this problem of searching for text within / across SAS EG project code? ... View more

Chris, I did view the webinar and had several questions which did not get answered. 1. I have written SAS programs that help document a SAS application - it reads all the variables from a SAS Library and then goes through all the SAS programs and finds their respective locations mentioned in the program and creates a SAS dataset that helps document the application as well as assists in troubleshooting the application when there are problems and/or questions. Is there an easy way to read EGP files like it is when you have SAS programs filed in a directory? I really do not want to go into every project and then export the code to an external file just to document the application. 2. We are all knowledgeable about chaining a series of SAS programs using the "%INCLUDE" statements for running a group of SAS programs in BATCH. Is there a way to chain EGP projects in a similiar fashion? That is, we may have independent EGP projects that do a specific task / application but would like to chain a number of these tasks such that run all together in a sequencial manner AND in BATCH? Thanks in advance, Charles Patridge Chares_S_Patridge at prodigy dot net ... View more