Introduction

You may have heard that SAS Enterprise Guide is a point-and-click interface and concluded that it wasn't for programmers. However, SAS Enterprise Guide offers many features that can help you write code, organize your programming tasks, and easily view your data.

Using SAS Enterprise Guide, you can write and submit your own code, and you can also edit code that is generated by SAS Enterprise Guide tasks and queries. In this lesson you learn how to use SAS Enterprise Guide to accomplish your SAS programming tasks.



SAS Enterprise Guide windows




SAS Enterprise Guide windows



This lesson contains pages and takes approximately 1.5 hours to complete.


In this lesson, you learn to

  • use the main Enterprise Guide windows and their features
  • write and submit SAS programs
  • edit and resubmit SAS programs
  • view log messages
  • apply various result formats and styles
  • add code and data to a project
  • edit code that is generated by a SAS Enterprise Guide task
  • insert custom code into task code
  • automatically add custom code before and after task and program code
  • edit code that is generated by a SAS Enterprise Guide query.

Before taking this lesson, you should be familiar with SAS programming.