topic ODS to multiple destinations in ODS and Base Reporting

ODS to multiple destinations

kimdukes77 — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 14:36:30 GMT

I am creating a report that writes out to odf and csv simultaneously using proc report.

Is it possible to tailor the output, insomuch that I want to include some additional variables when writing to csv?

Thanks

Re: ODS to multiple destinations

RW9 — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 14:42:02 GMT

And how are you doing this? We cannot see your code. If your writing "simulataneously" to multiple ods destinations, then by its definition, the output for each will be the same, as its the same code.

Re: ODS to multiple destinations

kimdukes77 — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 14:47:00 GMT

Yes I thought so much, just trying to avoid having to write out the code a second time for csv destination. Thanks anyway.

Re: ODS to multiple destinations

RW9 — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 14:49:33 GMT

Again it depends on your code which I can't see, but CSV files can be created very easily with:

proc export data=have outfile="...want.csv" dbms=csv;
run;

You don't need to create any code for that, just that step.

ODF (I assume you mean the format used by LIbreOffice) is different, I assume your creating an Excel type file, using tagsets.

Re: ODS to multiple destinations

sbb — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 15:31:06 GMT

Explore using ODS <destination> (ID=xx) ....; -- where you declare each of your targets, each with a unique ID-value and follow that with your desired PROC (or otherwise) invocation. And remember to follow-up with a suitable ODS....CLOSE; for each destination or _ALL_ otherwise.

Scott Barry
SBBWorks, Inc.

Re: ODS to multiple destinations

RW9 — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 09:01:45 GMT

I think the OP was asking to have different content of outputs from the same procedure, not how to output to different destinations. Without some major macro code, I don't see how one proc report can create two different outputs - i.e. in this case a different set of variables on the two different outputs. Hence there would need to be two different output steps.