topic Re: filename outbox email in New SAS User

filename outbox email

dataMart87 — Tue, 27 Aug 2019 00:30:41 GMT

In an email created by SAS (code below), is there an equivalent to the FLYOVER option? Running on SAS 9.4M4.

filename outbox email 
	to=("jon.dow@domain.com")
	type='text/html'
	subject="this is a test";

ods html body=outbox rs=none style=statdoc;
proc report data=sashelp.class split=']' missing nowd
	style(column)=[just=l]
	style(header)=[fontweight=bold just=c cellwidth=1in]
	style(report)=[font_size=2];


	title;
	footnote;

	column 
		name sex age;

	define name / display "Name" style(header)=[cellwidth=1.6in];
	define sex / display 'Sex';
	define age / display 'Age' style(column)=[just=r];

	compute sex;
		if sex='M' then do;
			call define('name', "style", "style=[background=cyan flyover='male']");
		end;
	endcomp;
run;
ods html close;

Re: filename outbox email

Kurt_Bremser — Tue, 27 Aug 2019 06:32:03 GMT

I just ran your code here and sent the mail to my business account (within the same network/domain).

When opening the mail in Outlook Web Access, the flyover with "male" (and the colouring) worked.

Interesting side-notes:

Running your code to create a HTML file, and viewing that via web server and a browser, the title= tags were missing, so no flyover, and also no coloring.

In the "SAS Report" Tab within EG, the coloring worked, but the flyover not.

In the HTML tab in EG, both worked.

Re: filename outbox email

dataMart87 — Tue, 27 Aug 2019 17:27:47 GMT

When I open the email in Outlook (thick client installed on my desktop), the color works but not the flyover. The email in this Outlook client is also HTML. So, I would think the flyover should work.

Re: filename outbox email

Kurt_Bremser — Wed, 28 Aug 2019 07:55:36 GMT

Displaying the flyover text is a matter of the user agent, in this case the fat Outlook client. You can only try to take a look at the raw HTML text of the mail. If the title= option is in there, then it's simply Outlook not doing what it should when resolving HTML tags.

Re: filename outbox email

dataMart87 — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 00:08:52 GMT

Per SAS TS, the Outlook for desktop (thick client) uses the Microsoft Word HTML viewer, which does not recognize this attribute. Currently, there is no workaround.