topic Re: sending email with a hyper link from SAS in SAS Procedures

sending email with a hyper link from SAS

Sivan — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 09:23:19 GMT

Hi,
Is it possible to send an email from SAS with a hyper link to a file?
If so, can you send me the syntax?

Thanks,
Sivan.

Re: sending email with a hyper link from SAS

Pramod_R — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 12:14:59 GMT

Sivan,

You can send a hyperlink fin a sas e-mail as shown below:

FILENAME mail1 EMAIL
TO=("xxxxx@gmail.com" )
From =("yyyyy@gmail.com")
SUBJECT ="test"
type="text/html"
CT= "text/html" ;

DATA _NULL_;
FILE mail1;
PUT 'Hello!!! ';
PUT "Link text ";
run;

However, it should be noted that the recipient of the email should have access to the url which you specify in the href statement.

Let me know if this makes sense!

Thanks,
Pramod

Message was edited by: Pramod.R Message was edited by: Pramod.R

Re: sending email with a hyper link from SAS

Bill — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 13:21:37 GMT

An example of what I use very frequently:

filename mail email ' '

to=("fred@somewhere.com")
from="me@nowhere.com"

subject="Inventory Report for &sysdate";

data _null_;

file mail;

put "auto e-mail for Inventory Report";
put " ";
put "Click on the blue underlined path below to view/print file contents";
put " ";
put "\\MOFtp\\Directory\InvenRpt.pdf";
put " ";

run;

Re: sending email with a hyper link from SAS

sbb — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 16:17:24 GMT

The last reply does not address the EMAIL content formatting and would be dependent you how your EMAIL client interprets the text-format (default) -- suggest reading up on using appropriate FILENAME statement parameters, as was mentioned earlier in this post-reply thread.

Scott Barry
SBBWorks, Inc.

Suggested Google advanced search argument, this topic / post:

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Re: sending email with a hyper link from SAS

Sivan — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 08:23:58 GMT

Thanks a lot, it was really helpful!