Category Archives: General

Second Birthday

It’s PlatformAdmin.com’s 2nd birthday this week! The past 2 years have gone very quickly I must say. I set out with a goal of writing a least 1 post every month. Not very ambitious I know, but realistic for me nonetheless! I’ve never been much of a writer. I’ve always been impressed by people who [...]

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Some PlatformAdmin.com Milestones …

My platformadmin.com blog has seen a few milestones of late: It had 1st birthday recently (boy that year went quickly!) … then, thanks to mentions from Waynette Tubs in the June edition of the SAS® Technical Report, and Andrew Ratcliffe in his excellent NOTE: blog, it saw a fair bit of extra traffic this month. [...]

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PlatformAdmin.com also available via SAS-X.com

This platformadmin.com blog is now available via the new aggregator SAS-X.com, along with many other great SAS related blogs. It’s well worth checking out. If you’re wondering how it’s different from sascommunity.org planet there’s a Q&A item about it at the bottom of the SAS-X.com about page.

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PlatformAdmin.com now has a Blog Roll (and roll of rolls)

Thanks to Andy Ratcliffe for adding platformadmin.com to his blog roll on NOTE:. This was a timely reminder for me to add a blog roll to this platformadmin.com blog, something I had been meaning to do for some time now, and so I was prompted to make a start on it. You can find the [...]

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Updating the ExcelXP Tagset via the URL Access Method

Every now and then I need to update the version of the ExcelXP tagset for a SAS® 9.1.3 platform installation. SAS programmers use the SAS Output Delivery System (ODS) and ExcelXP tagset to generate good looking multi-sheet Microsoft Excel files (in XML format). This tagset has gone through a number of versions so the version [...]

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