topic Re: SAS JOB EXECUTION SHOW IMAGE BACKGROUND in SAS Programming

SAS JOB EXECUTION SHOW IMAGE BACKGROUND

dipand — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 13:24:27 GMT

i have a sas job execution. This job must show an image in background. At the moment i don't see the image.

my code:

data _null_;
file _webout;
put '<!DOCTYPE html>';
put '<html>';
put '<head><title>Hello World!</title></head>';
put '<body>';
put "<h1>Hello %sysfunc(htmlencode(&MYNAME))!</h1>";
put '<img src="/sasgrid/files/image.png">';
put '</body>';
put '</html>';
run;

Maybe i must save the image in an particular path?
Can you help me?

Re: SAS JOB EXECUTION SHOW IMAGE BACKGROUND

ChrisHemedinger — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 13:46:25 GMT

The image file must be stored in a location where the web browser can find it, either with a fully qualified URL or a location relative to the HTML file you're viewing.

If running in SAS Studio or EG, the HTML file will be "downloaded" as a result but the image file will not, so your browser cannot find it.

A solution might be to embed the image inline (like SVG) as supported in HTML5. This is documented in the ODS HTML5 statement options...but it's trickier to do if you're relying on DATA step to build the HTML by hand.

Re: SAS JOB EXECUTION SHOW IMAGE BACKGROUND

AllanBowe — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 19:19:48 GMT

There are several approaches:

* host the image somewhere (as Chris says)
* embed an SVG
* Base64 encode the image (here's an online converter- https://base64.guru/converter/encode/image)
* embed the image as base64 in a seperate job and decode on the way out (this works great for STPs on SAS 9)
* Simply place the image in SAS Drive and reference it as a file with the _file URL parameter

For an example of loading images, sounds and other content you can check out this Mario game, that deploys easily to Viya: https://sasapps.io/sas-streamed-apps