SAS Studio: Help Center

Can I create my own tasks?

Yes! SAS Studio is designed so that SAS programmers can edit predefined tasks and create their own custom tasks. You can create a custom task from scratch, or you can let SAS Studio help you get started in one of these ways:

• Create a copy of an existing task by right-clicking the task in the navigation pane and selecting Add to My Tasks. You can then edit the copied task from your My Tasks folder.
• Use one of the new task templates that are available from the New () menu in the Tasks and Utilities section of the navigation pane.

For more information, see these resources:

• Writing a Custom Task for SAS Studio (free e-learning course)
• SAS Studio 5.2: Writing Your First Custom Task (Getting Started documentation)
• SAS Studio 5.2: Developer's Guide to Writing Custom Tasks (reference documentation)
• Custom Task Tuesday (series on SAS communities with examples, including a repository to use and an excellent cheat sheet)
• Sample tasks on GitHub (external repository hosting tasks provided by SAS and contributed custom tasks to extend SAS Studio)
• Proceedings of the SAS Global Forum conference:
  • Create Web-Based SAS Reports Without Having to Be a Web Developer
  • Teach Them to Fish - How to Use Tasks in SAS Studio to Enable Co-Workers to Run Your Reports Themselves
  • Developing Your Own SAS Studio Custom Tasks for Advanced Analytics

If you are familiar with Visual Basic programming, you can also create custom tasks in SAS Enterprise Guide. For more information, see Working with Custom Tasks.