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ODS HTML saving to folder outside of SAS without telling it to.

Rsnead91 — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 20:23:00 GMT

Hello SAS Community!

My SAS program seems to always save my html output to the folder outside of SAS which contains my program. Over time these html files accumulate and become a nuisance, overcrowding my folders. I would really like to stop SAS from exporting these html files, while keeping my ability to view the html results in SAS as I am running my procedures.

Currently, I use the following code to clear out my html output files:

ODS HTML CLOSE; ODS HTML;

I think this may have inadvertantly caused the issue. I can go into my results preferences and paste a destination path for the output to be sent to, however, I don't want to have to do that everytime I open SAS. I would prefer to just use some code that prevents SAS from exporting the files. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

Ryan

Re: ODS HTML saving to folder outside of SAS without telling it to.

Shmuel — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 20:32:05 GMT

When you define ODS HTML precede it by filenmae like:

filename myhtm '...any path..any name.html';

ODS HTML file=myhtm;

Re: ODS HTML saving to folder outside of SAS without telling it to.

ballardw — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 20:32:24 GMT

Since you are closing and then reopening the ODS HTML without a PATH option it sends the output to someplace active in the session and defaulting to the place your are working.

So you may want to specify a PATH for output that you like.

I have a macro that resets the ods path to the work library so it can get cleaned up:

%macro resetHtml;
%let workpath= %sysfunc(getoption (work));
ods html path="&workpath" newfile=proc;
%mend;

So I can use %resethtml; in code to send output there when reopening the HTML destination.

Re: ODS HTML saving to folder outside of SAS without telling it to.

Rsnead91 — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 21:02:01 GMT

Thank you for your suggestion.

Is there a path to the SAS WORK library that I could use?

Re: ODS HTML saving to folder outside of SAS without telling it to.

Rsnead91 — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 21:02:22 GMT

Thank you for your suggestion.

I tried out the macro, but my files still seem to be saving in the active folder outside of SAS.

Re: ODS HTML saving to folder outside of SAS without telling it to.

Rsnead91 — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 21:06:10 GMT

Nevermind! I realized that I wasn't placing the macro in the correct location in my code. It works now.

Thank you!