topic Re: Sending an email with a Graph in SAS Programming

Sending an email with a Graph

Lost_Gary — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 17:16:05 GMT

I send a number of emails directly from SAS with charts or attached reports as a time saver - it is a wonderful tool. I am attempting to include a graph and i am getting an error. Below is my code and my error message.

filename fileref email ("myemail@myemail.com")
From="myemail@myemail.com"
Subject="Language Preference"
type ="text/html";

ods html body= fileref ;
proc gchart data=test;
vbar languagePref/
sumvar=count
sum
inside=freq
outside=percent
percent
descending;

run;

ods html close;
filename fileref clear;

Log States:

ERROR: Insufficient authorization to access C:\WINDOWS\system32\gchart5.svg.

I only get the error when i try to embed this in an email otherwise the graph produces just fine (which puzzles me). I am running EG 8.3 Update 5. Thanks for the help.

Re: Sending an email with a Graph

Reeza — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 17:44:23 GMT

Out of curiosity, what happens if you use HTML5 instead of HTML?

HTML doesn't embed a picture, it links it, HTML5 embeds images in the file directly.

Re: Sending an email with a Graph

Lost_Gary — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 17:54:11 GMT

it produces an email, but the details are in a string.

Bar chart of Language Preference .18% .09% count sum 0 1000 2000

Not the graph that I am looking for.

Re: Sending an email with a Graph

Reeza — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 18:02:57 GMT

Interesting - you can specify the GPATH location on your ODS statement, set it to somewhere you do have write access and see if that attaches it correctly.

Re: Sending an email with a Graph

Lost_Gary — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 21:05:20 GMT

I can attach the graph as an HTML - but if i try to embed it (which is what i want - open email see graph) it give me the same error.

Re: Sending an email with a Graph

Reeza — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 21:08:40 GMT

https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/2017/04/21/use-sas-send-email-embeds-graph-body-email/

Re: Sending an email with a Graph

Dawinchyle — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:04:57 GMT

I’ve had good results pulling targeted leads by using a facebook email scraper, especially when I needed emails tied to specific niches or locations. I liked that it verified addresses in real time, so I wasn’t wasting time on dead ends, and exporting everything to a clean CSV made outreach smoother. It saved me from juggling messy spreadsheets and manual searching.