topic Re: ODS EXCEL adds SAS user name in generated excel file in SAS Programming

ODS EXCEL adds SAS user name in generated excel file

emma_madrid — Wed, 17 May 2023 16:36:42 GMT

Hello,

I was able to generate an excel file with ODS EXCEL and I added 3 lines at the beginning of the file using proc odstext; Everything works fine except that the user sas name is added twice in the generated excel. Once at the beginning before the proc odstext and once before starting the table.

Any idea to avoid inserting the user sas name?

Code used:

ODS EXCEL FILE=exprt

options(sheet_name="sheetname"
sheet_interval='none'
embedded_titles='yes'
autofilter='1-11'
FLOW="TABLES"
);
proc odstext;
p "Title1" / style=[color=#003366 font_weight=bold];
p "Title2 %sysfunc(UPCASE(%sysfunc(compress(&Date)))) %sysfunc(year("&Date."d))" / style=[color=#003366 font_weight=bold];
p "Title3" ;
run;

Thanks!

Re: ODS EXCEL adds SAS user name in generated excel file

SASJedi — Mon, 22 May 2023 12:28:44 GMT

Running the code you provided here does not recreate the problem for me. I suspect the userID is being inserted by some of the other code. Look for a reference to &SYSUSERID - this is the macro variable that contains the username of the person or system user executing the code.

Re: ODS EXCEL adds SAS user name in generated excel file

Quentin — Mon, 22 May 2023 12:58:21 GMT

Any chance you have a Title and Footnote that are generating the username? If you add:

title1  ;
footnote1 ;

before the code to clear titles and footnotes does that solve the problem?

Re: ODS EXCEL adds SAS user name in generated excel file

emma_madrid — Wed, 24 May 2023 06:33:31 GMT

Thanks for the clue. I checked the code, but there is no reference to &SYSUSERID.

I also noticed it happens when the SAS program is executed in LINUX, not when i execute in EG.

Re: ODS EXCEL adds SAS user name in generated excel file

Quentin — Wed, 24 May 2023 12:29:57 GMT

Did you try adding:

title;
footnote;

immediately before the PROC ODSTEXT step?

When you run code via EG, you're probably running SAS on linux. When you say the problem only happens on Linux, how are you running that code? Are you batch submitting on linux? It's possible your SAS session has a different autoexec or other config setting that is creating titles/footnotes automatically.