Customizing SAS/ASSIST Software

Creating an Alternate Menu Bar

You can use the PMENU procedure to create an alternate menu bar for your SAS/ASSIST session. For example, submitting the following SAS program in the Program Editor window creates a menu bar called CUSTMENU in a catalog called SASUSER.MENUS:

proc pmenu cat=sasuser.menus;
   menu custmenu;
   item 'File' menu=file;
   item 'Locals' menu=locals;

   menu file;
      item 'End';
      item 'Bye';

   menu locals;
      item 'RESULTMAN';
      item 'ACCESS';

run;
quit;

After you have submitted this program, invoke SAS/ASSIST software if it is not already running. Open the User Profile window as described earlier in this chapter. Change the following options:

Change the Menu style value to ALTERNATE.
Change the Alternate menu bar value to the location of the alternate menu bar; in this example,
```
SASUSER.MENUS.CUSTMENU.PMENU
```
Change the SAS/ASSIST Style value to Block menu

Select Close from the File menu to save your changes. Exit SAS/ASSIST software, then re-invoke it. When you open a task window, your alternate menu bar appears as shown in the following display.

Alternate Menu Bar

[Alternate Menu Bar]

To find the SAS/ASSIST commands that you can use when building an alternate menu, follow this selection path from the WorkPlace menu:Help Using This WindowSelect Menu Bar from the Help window for a list of menu bar items; select a menu bar item to find its associated command. Here are some additional useful commands:

COMMAND: toggles between the menu bar and the Command ===> prompt.
PREVWIND: raises the previous window.
NEXT: raises the next window.
POPCMD: lists the available commands for that window.
EXPORT: opens the Export Data to External File window after a query has been run. Used in the Query window only.
END ALL: closes all open Query and Reporting windows. Used in Query and Reporting windows only.

For more information on the PMENU procedure, refer to the Base SAS Procedures Guide.

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