I'm hoping to gain some insight into common possible causes of EG crashes, and I haven't found anything that's specifically applicable in the forums, Knowledge Base, etc., despite a lot of searching. In my current role, I'm using EG 5.1 (9.3) in a linux server environment, and I'm experiencing lots of crashing (of the "SAS has encountered a problem and needs to close" type). Sometimes this happens multiple times a day, resulting from different circumstances, somewhat continously. Other days are good, without too much trouble. The other person on my team with EG is also experiencing more frequent crashing, along with EG frequently hanging - sometimes just doing basic things like opening or closing a project. The frustrating thing is that In my previous role, I used EG in a different server environment, and never had the same issues, so it's really causing me headaches (especially since I was the one who suggested we use EG in the first place for my team!).   Anyway, I have submitted a help ticket to the SAS admins at my company, but I'm also interested in getting some insight from other users as I'm wondering if anything I've done stands out as a bad idea that could be influencing the crashing. I'm pretty experienced with general SAS programming, and I've been using EG for over 5 or so years, but recently I've created a project for my team's use that caused me to make use of a lot of "new-to-me" EG functionality, and I'm wondering if I'm stretching the limits of what should be done with an EG project. What I've done is created a project as sort of a re-usable project template, which includes the following features: Prompts created by the Prompt Manager used throughout the project  (some from dynamic lists using datasets registered to the metadata); Lots of queries built using Query Builder functionality, some against SAS or other db views, some with filtering based on prompts; Multiple (fairly complex) graphs produced using custom styles and GTL (to produce output compliant with our brand standards). Is there anything on this list that stands out as a potential problem? Anything anyone would suggest to trouble-shoot/make changes/etc.? Any system configurations I should check? I'm doing some common-sense trouble-shooting, such as removing elements from the project and seeing if it performs better, but as we've seen a lot of variability in the frequency of crashing, it's been difficult to see any obvious patterns. The only things I've noticed so far is that I sometimes see a lot of crashing when copying and pasting html output into Powerpoint, and that I'm perhaps seeing more frequent crashing during times where my system in general seems slow (network traffic, perhaps?).   FWIW, the latest crash produced the following error: Problem signature: Problem Event Name: APPCRASH Application Name: seguide.exe Application Version: 5.100.0.13304 Application Timestamp: 52727064 Fault Module Name: wpfgfx_v0400.dll Fault Module Version: 4.0.30319.34209 Fault Module Timestamp: 5348b526 Exception Code: c0000005 Exception Offset: 00004f35 OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.4 Locale ID: 1033   (However, I have seen other error messages as well.)   Any insight or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!   ... View more

Let me admit first of all to being new to much of graphing in SAS. I have scoured the internet, several books I bought, and the forum for help, but I can't figure out several problems I'm having. (BTW, I'm using EG 5.1, 9.3 on a Linux server.) Ultimately, I'm trying to create a fairly simple bar chart with a reference line and an (ideally) rotated text label next to the reference line. I created it first using SGRENDER but ran into a bunch of problems, so I moved to SGPLOT instead. All is working well EXCEPT I can't seem to get the annotation that produces the text label to display on the graph. I don't get any errors in the log, the annotate data set that's produced looks reasonable, but it just doesn't display.   Anyway, I realized I didn't really understand how annotation placement works, so I stepped back, read more documentation, and found an example on the web (many thanks to whoever created it!) that I used to walk through until I understood it (code is attached, including my attempts to use SGPLOT at the end). It uses GCHART, and everything works fine and produces the lines and the labels. However, when I try the exact same thing using SGPLOT, it doesn't display (again, the chart looks fine, but there's no lines or labels). I'm at my wit's end and am hoping someone can help me understand as a first step what's going on and why I'm seeing the annotation with GCHART but not SGPLOT. (FWIW, I'm using graph format=PNG as I understand other options can cause issues.) /* Create input data set, A */ data a; input Year Y; datalines; 90 40 91 85 92 80 93 50 94 90 95 80 ; run; /* Create the Annotate data set, B */ data b; length color function $8 text $14; retain xsys '1' ysys '2' when 'a'; function='move'; x=0; y=60; output; function='draw'; x=100; y=60; color='blue'; size=2; output; function='label'; x=50; y=60; size=1.5; position='2'; color='black'; text='Goal=60'; output; function='move'; x=0; y=70.83; output; function='draw'; x=100; y=70.83; color='green'; size=2; output; function='label'; x=50; y=70.83; size=1.5; position='2'; color='black'; text='Avg=70.83'; output; run; /* Add a title to the graph */ title1 'Sales Report'; /* Define axis characteristics */ axis1 order=(0 to 100 by 25); /* Produce the bar chart using the ANNO= */ /* option on the VBAR statement */ proc gchart data=a; vbar year / anno=b sumvar=y raxis=axis1 discrete width=8; run; quit; proc sgplot data=a sganno=b ; vbar year /response=Y stat=sum barwidth=.9 ; run; quit;   ... View more