Importing Activity Attributes (mspsae02)
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/* S A S S A M P L E L I B R A R Y */
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/* NAME: mspsae02 */
/* TITLE: Importing Activity Attributes (mspsae02) */
/* PRODUCT: OR */
/* SYSTEM: ALL */
/* KEYS: OR */
/* PROCS: PM, SAS/ACCESS */
/* DATA: */
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/* SUPPORT: UPDATE: */
/* MISC: Example 2 from the The Microsoft Project */
/* Conversion Macros chapter of Project Management */
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This example illustrates the ability of the \%MSPTOSAS macro to
import Microsoft Project custom fields to a SAS data set.
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%msptosas(mdbfile=!SASROOT\or\sasmisc\mspsas2.mdb,
library=work, version=2003)
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Use the following code to create a table consisting of
ACTIVITY and DURATION from Activity data set, E_START and
E_FINISH from Schedule data set, and Flag1 and Text1 from
Task_attributes data set.
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proc sql;
create table merged as
select a.ACTIVITY, a.DURATION,
b.E_START, b.E_FINISH, c.Flag1, c.Text1
from mspout.Activity a, mspout.Schedule b,
mspout.Task_attributes c
where a.ACTUID=b.ACTUID=c.ACTUID
and a.ACTIVITY is not missing;
quit;
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Note that a field is extracted and saved in the data set
Task_attribute only when it has non-default values for at least
one task, or if it has been renamed in Microsoft Project. If you
are not sure if Flag1 is present in the data set Task_attribute,
you can use the following SAS code instead.
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%macro merge;
/* Open the data set mspout.Task_attributes and
return an identifier &dsid. */
%let dsid=%sysfunc(open(mspout.Task_attributes));
proc sql;
create table merged as
select a.ACTIVITY, a.DURATION,
b.E_START, b.E_FINISH,
%if %sysfunc(varnum(&dsid,Flag1)) %then %do;
c.Flag1,
%end;
c.Text1
from mspout.Activity a, mspout.Schedule b,
mspout.Task_attributes c
where a.ACTUID=b.ACTUID=c.ACTUID
and a.ACTIVITY is not missing;
quit;
/* Close the data set opened with the identifier &dsid. */
%let rc = %sysfunc (close (&dsid));
%mend;
%merge;