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Problem Note 65982: Saving SAS® Enterprise Guide® projects to a shared network drive might result in broken links in the process flow

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In SAS Enterprise Guide, links between tasks might break in a specific scenario.

For example, you might encounter this issue if you perform steps similar to the following:

  1. Save your projects on a shared network drive.
  2. Another user opens your project, performs changes, and saves it.
  3. You reopen your project. You might see missing links between tasks and their input data sets.

Also, when the project is corrupted, if you try to edit tasks with broken links, they might fail with the following message:

Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

As a workaround, you might recreate links between tasks and input data sets.

This problem affects only SAS Enterprise Guide version 8.1.



Operating System and Release Information

Product FamilyProductSystemProduct ReleaseSAS Release
ReportedFixed*ReportedFixed*
SAS SystemSAS Enterprise GuideMicrosoft® Windows® for x648.18.29.4 TS1M69.4 TS1M6
Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise 32-bit8.18.29.4 TS1M69.4 TS1M6
Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise x648.18.29.4 TS1M69.4 TS1M6
Microsoft Windows 8 Pro 32-bit8.18.29.4 TS1M69.4 TS1M6
Microsoft Windows 8 Pro x648.18.29.4 TS1M69.4 TS1M6
Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise 32-bit8.18.29.4 TS1M69.4 TS1M6
Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise x648.18.29.4 TS1M69.4 TS1M6
Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro 32-bit8.18.29.4 TS1M69.4 TS1M6
Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro x648.18.29.4 TS1M69.4 TS1M6
Microsoft Windows 108.18.29.4 TS1M69.4 TS1M6
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Datacenter8.18.29.4 TS1M69.4 TS1M6
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter8.18.29.4 TS1M69.4 TS1M6
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Std8.18.29.4 TS1M69.4 TS1M6
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Std8.18.29.4 TS1M69.4 TS1M6
Microsoft Windows Server 20168.18.29.4 TS1M69.4 TS1M6
Microsoft Windows Server 20198.18.29.4 TS1M69.4 TS1M6
Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit8.18.29.4 TS1M69.4 TS1M6
Windows 7 Enterprise x648.18.29.4 TS1M69.4 TS1M6
Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit8.18.29.4 TS1M69.4 TS1M6
Windows 7 Home Premium x648.18.29.4 TS1M69.4 TS1M6
Windows 7 Professional 32 bit8.18.29.4 TS1M69.4 TS1M6
Windows 7 Professional x648.18.29.4 TS1M69.4 TS1M6
Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit8.18.29.4 TS1M69.4 TS1M6
Windows 7 Ultimate x648.18.29.4 TS1M69.4 TS1M6
* For software releases that are not yet generally available, the Fixed Release is the software release in which the problem is planned to be fixed.