topic Re: Adding a clickable URL link to an entire graph using sgrender in Graphics Programming

Adding a clickable URL link to an entire graph using sgrender

olsengf — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 13:40:43 GMT

I have a line graph, using proc template and statgraph, and proc sgrender. I've defined a URL variable within the data set and I have the code url=url within my template, which allows the line on the line graph to be a clickable link. Is there anyway to make the background or white space of the graph clickable as well?

Re: Adding a clickable URL link to an entire graph using sgrender

Rick_SAS — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 14:05:16 GMT

I've never done this, but it seems like you could use the POLYGONPLOT statement to draw a rectangle that goes from

(min(X), min(Y)) to (max(X), max(Y)). Make the rectangle 100% transparent so it doesn't show up, but use the URL= option to specify the URL.

If you plot the rectangle last within your LAYOUT OVERLAY block, then it should direct all clicks in the plot are to the specified URL. If you plot the rectangle first, then clicks on a line could go to one URL, and clicks that do not touch a line would go elsewhere.

Re: Adding a clickable URL link to an entire graph using sgrender

Quentin — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 14:05:56 GMT

I don't know if you can make the background clickable. But you could probably overlay an invisible / transparent plot on top of it, and define a URL for that. I've overlaid invisibile bar charts for similar reasons.

Re: Adding a clickable URL link to an entire graph using sgrender

Jay54 — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 14:45:16 GMT

The suggestion by others should work. However, if you want to have the entire graph to be clickable (including outside the data area), you could use an annotated transparent rectangle with a URL on the whole graph area.

Re: Adding a clickable URL link to an entire graph using sgrender

olsengf — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 19:10:25 GMT

Thank you all for the input. I added this line of code:

drawrectangle x=0 y=0 width=100 height=100 / ANCHOR=BOTTOMLEFT display=all transparency=1 layer=back url="&urlLink";

within my statgraph template and it works perfectly.