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songbuster
songbuster

Reputation: 43

How to mark a task to not execute in a Flow?

I have a flow in SAS Enterprise Guide but for debug reasons I want some tasks to run and others don't. Is there a way to tell the flow to not execute some tasks? F.E. an export task.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1230

Answers (2)

Joe
Joe

Reputation: 63434

http://support.sas.com/documentation/onlinedoc/guide/sasegforprogrammersGoodies.htm

Most of the way down, under How do you make sure a task (or program) has completed successfully before performing the next one?:

In SAS Enterprise Guide 4.2 and later, you can add one or more conditions to a task that control whether the task (and any items that follow it) will run. A condition can be based upon a prompt value, date/time conditions, a value in SAS data set, or macro variable. It's these last two type that can be very powerful, since you can add almost any value that you want to a SAS data set or macro variable and check for it within a condition. To ensure that a particular task has what it needs before continuing, use a Query Builder or SAS program step in the project to populate a value into a SAS data set. Then create a condition (right-click on the task and select Condition->Add), and create a condition based upon the expected value within the data set you created.

In your case, you should have a macro variable or a value in a sas dataset defined for debug, like %let debug=0; or %let debug=1; and then use that value for your condition.

Upvotes: 1

Nick Herro
Nick Herro

Reputation: 23

If this is not something you plan to repeat frequently, a quick solution would be to select the processes you'd like to execute (Ctrl+click) and choose "Run Selected" as your run option.

Upvotes: 0

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