topic Re: ODS, Proc Document and Table of Contents in ODS and Base Reporting

ODS, Proc Document and Table of Contents

Simon — Fri, 09 Oct 2015 15:42:25 GMT

Hi All,

I've been having a play around with using ODS document / proc document etc. to produce some outputs with usable TOC's.

I've had a read of a good few papers and a bunch of stuff from all over the internet and I've managed to get stuff looking how I want it to in the odsdocument window, listing the various section and subsection headings etc.

The issue seems to be when I output to rtf / pdf generating a toc I end up with and additional line in the TOC for each table which just states 'Table 1'. Looking at the rtf output I can see that this is coming from the rtf control characters embedded in the output as {tc "Table 1 " \f C \1 3}. I'm at a loss (given my limited knowledge) as to where this is coming from.

I'd be really grateful if anyone could suggest how to get around this.

Many thanks,

Simon

Re: ODS, Proc Document and Table of Contents

Cynthia_sas — Sat, 10 Oct 2015 16:37:57 GMT

Hi:
Are you using PROC REPORT? There is usually an "extra" Table 1 node that you see in PROC REPORT output. There is a Tech Support note http://support.sas.com/kb/31/278.html about how to get rid of it. And a previous Forum posting about the same issue is here:
https://communities.sas.com/t5/ODS-and-Base-Reporting/proc-report-bookmarks/td-p/74714 (with some code posted).

cynthia

Re: ODS, Proc Document and Table of Contents

Simon — Mon, 12 Oct 2015 08:18:28 GMT

Hi Cynthia,

Thank you so much for your response.

Yes, I am using PROC REPORT. I'd been using the contents = but I'd messed up my break statement, having played around with the ordering variables I had been using.

All seems to be working well now.

Thanks,

Simon