How do I create an event driven macro?

How do I create an event driven macro?

Create an event-driven data macro

1. In the Navigation Pane, double-click the table to which you want to add the data macro.
2. On the Table tab, in the Before Events group or the After Events group, click the event to which you want to add the macro.
3. Add the actions that you want the macro to perform.

How do you create an event process in Access?

1 In Design view, right-click the object (form, report, section, or control) for which you want to write an event procedure, in this case, the OK command button. On the shortcut menu, click Build Event. Microsoft Access displays the Choose Builder dialog box. 2 In the list box, click Code Builder, and then click OK.

How do you stop a macro in SAS?

If you are using macros, you can exit a macro smoothly with %abort as long as you either use no options or only use cancel . Depending on what you’re doing, you might set up your code to run in a macro (or macros) and use this option (although with the disadvantage of losing some log clarity).

When to use a macro with a parameter?

1. if you need to assign a different value to the argument each time you call it (from the menu) you will need to write a short interface macro that prompts you for the desired input, then calls the other macro passing it the value you have entered.

How to define a macro that takes arguments?

To define a macro that uses arguments, you insert parameters between the pair of parentheses in the macro definition that make the macro function-like. The parameters must be valid C identifiers, separated by commas and optionally whitespace. To invoke a macro that takes arguments, you write the name of…

How is a macro loop driven by data?

To make macro loop driven by data we can use two index macro variables: the first one (primary index) iterates from 1 to n incrementing by 1 effectively going through the observations of a driver table, the other macro variable (secondary index) gets its values from the driver variable and is being a true data-driven index for our macro loop.

How can I set default values in a macro?

You can by using macro parameters. Macro parameters enable you to pass values into the macro at macro invocation, and set default values for macro variables within the macro definition. In this blog post, I also discuss how you can pass in a varying number of parameter values. There are two types of macro parameters: positional and keyword.