Business Knowledge Series course
Presented by Chris Hemedinger, author, blogger and Technical Consultant, Global Professional Services, SAS
SAS Enterprise Guide is a hugely popular application that is used by SAS programmers, SAS power users, and business analysts around the world. It does a lot, but does it do everything that you need it to do? Organizations often have a need to extend or customize their SAS Enterprise Guide environment to fit their particular industry or business processes.
Learn how to
- find and install existing custom tasks to make your users more productive
- simplify a complex process by wrapping it in a custom task
- design easy-to-use interfaces for end users to help them accomplish their work
- make your custom tasks easier to learn by having them look and behave the same as the built-in tasks
- design your tasks to be easy to debug and maintain
- create "mash-ups" of other services and your SAS processes by connecting them with custom tasks
- add your custom tasks for use in the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office.
Who should attend
SAS consultants, IT professionals who support SAS users, any SAS professional who wants to extend the SAS Enterprise Guide platform
Formats available | Standard duration | | |
Classroom: |
2.0 days | | |
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Before attending this course, you should
- have good working knowledge of SAS Enterprise Guide
- be familiar with SAS programming at the level taught in the SAS Programming 1: Essentials course or have equivalent work experience
- some familiarity with object-oriented concepts.
This course addresses SAS Add-in for Microsoft Office, Base SAS, SAS Enterprise Guide software.
It is recommended that you have experience with an object-oriented programming language such as C#, Visual Basic, or Java. You should have experience with an application development environment such as Microsoft Visual Studio or Eclipse.
In this course, Microsoft Visual Studio is used as a development environment for creating tasks. In addition to the SAS language, the course uses C# as the main programming language. Some Visual Basic examples can also be provided as needed.
Introduction
Designing a New Custom Task- identifying the scope
- designing the desired result
- creating a prototype of the flow
- designing the perfect user interface
Tools of the Trade- introduction to Microsoft Visual Studio
- Visual Basic versus C#: how to choose
- understanding versions: Microsoft .NET and SAS
- creating a custom task project
- additional development tools
Introduction to the SAS Custom Tasks APIs- what is in the SAS.Shared.AddIns APIs
- what is in the SAS Tasks Toolkit
- which APIs are important for what type of tasks
- Looking inside a custom task
Creating a Simple Task- using templates to start quickly
- creating a simple task model
- teaching your task to generate a program
- creating a user interface
- saving task settings and preferences
The Custom Task Lifecycle- the different phases of the task lifecycle
- what happens during task registration mode?
- what happens during task design mode?
- what happens during task run mode?
- considerations for best performance in each mode
Debugging Techniques- using the Microsoft Visual Studio debugger
- creating built-in diagnostics for your task
- designing a task that is easy to test
- maintaining your task over time
Accessing Data in Your Task- how SAS Enterprise Guide provides data
- using data providers in Microsoft .NET
- using SasData classes from the task toolkit
- considerations for data performance
Running SAS Programs in Your Task- about the SAS workspace and language service
- using the SasSubmitter class
- synchronous versus asynchronous processing
- retrieving and interpreting program results
- being a good citizen with the SAS workspace
Adding SAS Features to Your Task- understanding task class attributes
- naming and categorizing tasks
- using SAS controls: SAS variable selector
- using SAS controls: SAS data selector
- using SAS controls: SAS Program Editor
- supporting task templates
Administration of Your Task- distributing and installing your tasks
- controlling access to tasks with metadata
- best practices for updating your tasks
