topic Re: ods html frame blank in ODS and Base Reporting

ods html frame blank

antonsvart — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 22:40:51 GMT

Hi,

I've run a whole set of analyses and output using ODS HTML to create a body, contents, and frame .html files. All of these properly display on my machine. However, when I send these three files over email, my recipients open up a blank frame.html and functioning body.html and contents.html file.

Here is the code I used to generate these three files:

ODS listing close;
ODS HTML 	path = "&outdir"
			body = 'body.html' (url='body.html')
			contents = 'contents.html' (url='contents.html')
			frame = 'frame.html' (url='frame.html')
			file = 'Analyses.html'
			newFile = NONE;

%include "&inpath\07-09-2019 Data Creation File.sas";
%include "&inpath\07-09-2019 Descriptive Tables.sas";
%include "&inpath\07-08-2019 Models.sas";
%include "&inpath\07-09-2019 Time Trends1.sas";
%include "&inpath\07-09-2019 Time Trends2.sas";

ods html close;

Is my error leading to the blank frame.html file in the code or am I just attaching too few files in my emails?

Thank you for help.

Re: ods html frame blank

Cynthia_sas — Thu, 11 Jul 2019 00:05:26 GMT

Hi: I would also recommend using (URL=NONE) after the PATH= option -- if you do this, then you don't need ANY of the other URL= options.

Also, you really should NOT have both BODY= and FILE=. with 2 of them, BODY.HTML will NOT be created, but Analyses.HTML will be created.

NEWFILE=NONE is the default. It's not hurting here, but you don't need it.

If I mimic your code, then the frame appears empty because the links inside the FRAME file are bad:

When you mail the 3 files (BODY or FILE, FRAME and CONTENTS), nobody will be able to open them using the FRAME file.

If you do this, on the other hand,

Note that I took out the extra FILE= option.

Then file files are created and the src=attribute shows the impact of URL=NONE:

And the output displays correctly when FRAME2.HTML is opened:

Also assumes that all 3 output HTML files are sent together and stored in the same folder, not different folders.

Hope this helps.

Cynthia

Re: ods html frame blank

antonsvart — Thu, 11 Jul 2019 17:03:48 GMT

Thank you for your help and taking the time to make these screenies!! Your solution worked and I learned precisely why and how the error happened.