topic Re: ODS HTML error in ODS and Base Reporting

ODS HTML error

HabAM — Sat, 12 May 2018 03:06:00 GMT

I am having errors with html formats. Here is the error message I see on my log:

"ERROR: A component of C:\Users\mehretu\AppData\Local\Temp\4\SAS Temporary
Files\_TD6816_SPAZIO_\H:\output\test.html is not a directory.
ERROR: No body file. HTML output will not be created.
"

What's confusing is I have zero problem with any other format...PDF,CSV,xlsx.

Any insight is appreciated.

Re: ODS HTML error

SASKiwi — Sat, 12 May 2018 06:06:57 GMT

Your HTML file test.html is being written to an invalid directory. Post your code so we can see what is happening more clearly.

Re: ODS HTML error

Cynthia_sas — Sat, 12 May 2018 14:48:21 GMT

Hi:
My guess is that you had something like this:
ODS HTML file="H:\output\test.html" ... ;

or
ODS HTML body="H:\output\test.html" ...;

Try changing it to:
ODS HTML path="H:\output" file="test.html" ... ;

or
ODS HTML path="H:\output" body="test.html" ...;

Notice how your WORK location folder is being pre-pended to your H: drive location. This is typically what happens when your default PATH is set to one thing and then the FILE= value is added to that default location.

Cynthia

Re: ODS HTML error

HabAM — Sat, 12 May 2018 23:33:40 GMT

Thank you Cynthia, the Path/body format worked. Is this a new change with the new release?

We just updated our SAS license and that is when I started having this error message.

Re: ODS HTML error

Cynthia_sas — Sun, 13 May 2018 02:15:34 GMT

Hi:
Yes, I believe that with the new release, the use of PATH= is now required for ODS HTML. Using the path location in FILE= or BODY= will generate a message such as you observed. Here's the note about it:
http://support.sas.com/kb/15/046.html

Cynthia

Re: ODS HTML error

sara_t_saspubs — Wed, 18 Jul 2018 20:31:01 GMT

The ODS HTML Statement documentation has information on the usage of path/body(file) under the PATH= option. Here's the link: ODS HTML Statement