Assign Macro variable value to HTML text box

Anand6666 — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 02:48:43 GMT

Hi ,

I am trying to build a SAS report in HTML, where in have text boxes to get the data from the user and save it into a data set and then displayed the saved data from the dataset in another page.

for eg, if I am querying for a particular primary key field from the dataset, if that field exist, then should display all the row details into the corresponding textboxes wherein I have the option to edit.

I am able to get the form details into macro variables using JavaScript and below code:

<script>

put' var mobile = document.getElementById("mobile").value;';

<\script>

to get the value of mobile number entered in html page to the global macro variable mobile.

But I am unable to perform the reverse.

assign the value of the macro variable into the html textbox element so that I can display the value on the frontend.

I am using the following code but not working yet

<script>

put' document.getElementById("mobile").value="&mobile";';

</script>

it displays &mobile in the textbox field.

if I use without the double quotes, sas throws an error that the variable mobile is not defined.

Kindly provide a resolution at the earliest.

Kindly

Re: Assign Macro variable value to HTML text box

Tom — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 13:33:30 GMT

SAS does not evaluate macro triggers inside of single quotes. Use double quotes instead. Embedded double quotes need to be doubled up.

data _null_;

put " document.getElementById(""mobile"").value=""&mobile"";" ;

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Re: Assign Macro variable value to HTML text box

Anand6666 — Sun, 22 Mar 2015 09:25:10 GMT

Thanks a lot Tom, the resolution worked, also I was able to achieve the same using cards4 format.

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