topic Re: Dispatching outputs to destinations in SAS Programming

Dispatching outputs to destinations

ChrisNZ — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 11:27:01 GMT

Hi,

Say there are two ODS destinations open, and I run three proc prints.

I want the first one to go to the HTML and RTF documents, the second one to go to the HTML document only, and the third one to the RTF document only.

Is there a way to do this?

The reason this needs to to done is that the (same) data contains HTML formatting in one case (like <br>), and RTF formatting for the other case (like \line).

Maybe there is a better way than embedding these formatting words (and use style protectspecialchars=off ) in otherwise identical data?

Re: Dispatching outputs to destinations

Ksharp — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 11:41:47 GMT

Not sure if this could work.

ods html file=.........
ods rtf file=.....
proc print.....

ods html close;
proc print;

ods html ;
ods rtf close;
proc print;

Re: Dispatching outputs to destinations

Kurt_Bremser — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 12:27:20 GMT

Might be a good reason for a ODS <destination> SUSPEND statement.

Re: Dispatching outputs to destinations

ChrisHemedinger — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 13:39:22 GMT

For HTML or HTML5, you could use the NO_BOTTOM_MATTER and NO_TOP_MATTER options, plus FILENAME with append options, to "pause" and "continue" output to an HTML destination.

And then there is SELECT and EXCLUDE options on these ODS destinations, to selectively decide what to output where.

Re: Dispatching outputs to destinations

ChrisNZ — Sun, 26 Jul 2020 05:57:02 GMT

Thanks Chris

I thought SELECT was only to manage documents.

Adding lines such as

ods rtf select ALL;
ods html exclude ALL;

seems to do the trick!

Re: Dispatching outputs to destinations

ChrisNZ — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 01:05:55 GMT

I also found this paper (by @Cynthia_sas of course) about doing this in a smarter manner.

https://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings/proceedings/forum2007/099-2007.pdf

Re: Dispatching outputs to destinations

ChrisNZ — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 09:31:51 GMT

@Cynthia_sas Your paper contains this table

Is there a somewhat comprehensive list of the various customisation options, at least for the first three categories?

Re: Dispatching outputs to destinations

Cynthia_sas — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 15:00:42 GMT

Hi:
That paper was showcasing the older style ^S of ODS ESCAPECHAR. The ability to do inline-formatting went through some changes in SAS 9.2 and at the end of my paper, I showed some comparisons between the original syntax and the newer ^{style...} syntax.
Line breaks and non-breaking spaces still work although with slightly different syntax. Line wraps went away. Regarding a "comprehensive list" styles and functions (like dagger and page x of y), you should look in the documentation. This web site: https://go.documentation.sas.com/?docsetId=odsug&docsetTarget=p11xia2ltavr8ln17srq8vn4rnqc.htm&docsetVersion=9.4&locale=en has a lovely list of all the functions in the current implementation of ODS ESCAPECHAR. And in addition to DAGGER, which was one of the original functions, there's the wonderful new UNICODE function, as well as BOLD and ITALIC, which simplify how you get bold and italic in text.

For the style attributes that you specify when you use STYLE with ODS ESCAPECHAR, you have to refer to this documentation table: https://go.documentation.sas.com/?docsetId=odsug&docsetTarget=n0otdo2g12obp3n0zmnghcn7p4vu.htm&docsetVersion=9.4&locale=en and in general understand how style attributes would in general before you start using them in ODS ESCAPECHAR.

Hope this helps,
Cynthia