topic Re: Custom Page Break - on either change of a group value or max records reached on a page in ODS and Base Reporting

Custom Page Break - on either change of a group value or max records reached on a page

pmane — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 19:56:44 GMT

Hi,

I was hoping sas community will pitch in to help me solve this problem.

Aim: 1. insert a page break on reaching the max records allowed on 1 page

2. insert a page break on change of group number i.e every new group data appears on new page

sample data:

_N_ GroupNo PageNo(expectedResult)

1 1 1

2 1 1

3 1 1

4 1 1

--------------------------------------------------------(this line is NOT the part of data)

5 1 2

6 1 2

-------------------------------------------------------(this line is NOT the part of data)

7 2 3

8 2 3

9 2 3

10 2 3

-----------------------------------------------------(this line is NOT the part of data)

11 2 4

12 2 4

13 2 4

In the above example:

max records on 1 page = 4

Currently, this is the code I have written (that does not work as I want it to)

data paging;

retain recbrk_ 1;

retain maxRecords 4;

if(mod(_N_,maxRecords) eq 1 or first.groupno) then recbrk_ = recbrk_ + 1;

run;

proc report....

...

break after recbrk_/ page;

....

run;

output i get :

_N_ GroupNo recbrk_

1 1 1

2 1 1

3 1 1

4 1 1

--------------------------------------------------------(this line is NOT the part of data)

5 1 2

6 1 2

-------------------------------------------------------(this line is NOT the part of data)

7 2 3

-------------------------------------------------------(this line is NOT the part of data)

8 2 4

9 2 4

10 2 4

11 2 4

-----------------------------------------------------(this line is NOT the part of data)

12 2 5

13 2 5

Any suggestions / comments will be helpful.Thank you in advance !

Poonam

Re: Custom Page Break - on either change of a group value or max records reached on a page

Cynthia_sas — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 03:43:38 GMT

Hi:

Have you searched support.sas.com? There is an example of using a calculated variable to generate your own page breaking variable. I believe that it was written expressly for showing how to control page breaking in ODS RTF. You did not show your destination of interest, but even if it is not ODS RTF, the program that they used to illustrate the technique is something you could use as a model.

cynthia

Re: Custom Page Break - on either change of a group value or max records reached on a page

pmane — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 18:51:55 GMT

Thank you Cynthia for your reply.

Yes my query is for ODS RTF. I have tried to search support.sas.com as you have mentioned, but unsuccessfully. It would be great if you could please point me to the example you are referring, that i can use as a model ?

-Poonam

Re: Custom Page Break - on either change of a group value or max records reached on a page

Cynthia_sas — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 02:29:19 GMT

Hi:

I was thinking of this note: http://support.sas.com/kb/7/887.html The full code tab shows how to create a page breaking variable and then using it.

cynthia

Re: Custom Page Break - on either change of a group value or max records reached on a page

pmane — Thu, 26 Feb 2015 17:07:27 GMT

thank you Cynthia !