Introduction to SAS Enterprise Miner Software

Using the Application Main Menus

You use Enterprise Miner's application menus to perform common tasks. Different windows have different menus. Here is a brief summary of the SAS Enterprise Miner window pull-down menus:

File
- New
  - Project - creates a new project.
  - Diagram - creates a new diagram.
- Open - opens a new or existing diagram within the current project.
- Save Diagram - saves the current diagram to the project.
- Save Diagram as - names and saves the current diagram to the project.
- Print Setup - specifies printing options.
- Print - prints the contents of the SAS Enterprise Miner window.
- Delete current project - deletes the current project. If you select this menu item, then a message appears that asks you to verify the deletion.
  
  To delete the project, select Yes. All files in the project folder and any subfolders will be deleted. You cannot delete a project that someone else has opened.
- Close diagram - closes and saves the diagram.
- Close project - closes the project.
- Exit Enterprise Miner - ends the Enterprise Miner session.
Edit
- Copy diagram to clipboard - copies the diagram to the clipboard.
- Undelete - restores the last deleted node.
- Copy - copies a node or object to the paste buffer. You must first select the node or object that you want to copy.
- Delete - deletes the selected node or connection from the Diagram Workspace.
- Clone - copies the current node and adds it to the Custom folder of the Tools Palette.
- Paste - pastes the node, diagram, or object from the clipboard.
- Select all - selects all nodes in the Diagram Workspace.
- Create subdiagram - creates a subdiagram that you use to collapse a set of selected nodes and connections into a single Subdiagram node icon.
View
- Messages - opens the Messages window that displays collected messages for this diagram.
- Refresh - refreshes the Project Navigator and the Diagram Workspace view.
- Up One Level - displays the next higher level of the process flow diagram. If there are no subdiagrams in your process flow diagram, then only one level can be displayed. If there are subdiagrams in your process flow diagram, then the subdiagrams can be displayed either in their condensed form (hiding the internal structure of the subdiagram) or in their expanded form (showing their internal structure). The higher level displays subdiagrams in condensed form.
- Top Level - displays the process flow diagram in its most condensed form. All subdiagrams are condensed.
Options
- User preferences - opens the User Preferences window that enables you to specify start-up options, set the default directories for new projects, set up server profiles for client/server projects, and specify the HTML report items that you want to display when you run the Reporter node.
- Project
  - Data Profiles - opens the Data Profile window that you use to define target profile information for a data set. For details, see the Target Profiler Help.
    Help EM Reference Target Profiler
  - Properties - shows project properties, such as the project name and type, share status, project location, server information, and a list of users that have the project open. You can also specify start-up and exit code that runs when the project is opened and closed, specify the SAS warehouse path, or update the project server profile. These settings can be specified if the project is opened by one user.
- Diagram
  - Connect items - a mode of editing where node icons are fixed in location, so that you can more easily make connections among them.
  - Move items - a mode of editing where node icons cannot be connected, so that you may more easily move the icons where you want them in the process flow diagram.
  - Move and Connect- (default) a mode of editing where node icons can be moved and connected in the Diagram Workspace.
  - Large icons - displays large node icons in the Diagram Workspace. This item is dimmed if a node is selected in the Diagram Workspace.
  - Small icons - (default) displays small node icons in the Diagram Workspace. This item is dimmed if a node is selected in the Diagram Workspace.
  - Properties - opens the Properties window that enables you to view diagram properties, such as the name, type, status, date created, and date last modified. You can also apply password protection to the diagram and store notes about it.
Actions
- Open - opens the selected node.
- Run - runs the selected node and any predecessor nodes in the process flow that have not been previously run.
- Results- opens the Results Browser for those nodes that generate results.
- Add Node - opens the Add node window that enables you to add a new node to the Diagram Workspace.
- Add Endpoints - adds endpoints to the process flow.
Help
- Getting Started with Enterprise Miner Software - an interactive Enterprise Miner Tutorial that provides an overview of data mining and the Enterprise Miner software.
- Help - Enterprise Miner Reference Help. This is a hierarchical Help listing. You can also access Help for a given window in Enterprise Miner by clicking the What's This? icon from the Enterprise Miner Toolbox. After your mouse pointer changes into a question mark, click inside the window frame you would like Help on.
- About Enterprise Miner - Production release information about your copy of Enterprise Miner.

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