Check-SASServer-SASContent

Check SAS Server or SAS Content location

Background

If your SAS code only supports files/folders on the SAS Server, or only supports files/folders stored in SAS Content, then you need to check at runtime what the user has selected. The File or Folder Selector control currently does not support an attribute for the step author to restrict the location type.

The SAS macro variable associated with the control has a value that starts with sasserver: or with sascontent: to indicate the location type.

Here is some simple SAS code to check if the user has selected a file (or folder) on the SAS Compute server:

data _null_;
   locationType=scan("&fileorfolderselector",1,":");
   if lowcase(locationType) ne "sasserver" then do;
      putlog "ERROR: Please select location on the SAS Server";
      abort;
   end;
run;

And similarly to check whether a SAS Content folder has been selected:

data _null_;
   locationType=scan("&fileorfolderselector",1,":");
   if lowcase(locationType) ne "sascontent" then do;
      putlog "ERROR: Please select a location in a SAS Content folder";
      abort;
   end;
run;