Problem Note 43376: SAS® Financial Management Add-In API for Microsoft Excel does not return correct information for Server, URL, and Port in a Data-Entry form
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If you use the SAS Financial Management Add-In API for Microsoft Excel to return values to a Data-Entry form, you might find that the FMAddIn Class calls return incorrect results. Specifically, API calls for Server and URL return an empty string and the value returned for Port is -1.
Correct values are returned for these parameters when used in a SAS Financial Management report.
Click the Hot Fix tab in this note to access the hot fix for this issue.
This is marked as fixed in SAS Financial Management release 5.3.
Please contact SAS Technical Support for additional assistance.
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | Product Release | SAS Release | ||
| Reported | Fixed* | Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | SAS Financial Management | Windows Vista for x64 | 5.1 | 5.3 | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 5.1 | 5.3 | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 5.1 | 5.3 | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Windows Vista | 5.1 | 5.3 | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 5.1 | 5.3 | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 5.1 | 5.3 | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 for x64 | 5.1 | 5.3 | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x64 | 5.1 | 5.3 | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 5.1 | 5.3 | 9.2 TS2M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
A fix for this issue for SAS Financial Management 5.2_M1 is available at:
http://ftp.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/HF2/D73.html#43376
This information is correctly returned in a SAS Financial Management report.
| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | high |
| Date Modified: | 2012-05-07 08:58:25 |
| Date Created: | 2011-05-28 20:37:10 |