topic Re: Format in IF-RETURN-ELSE-statement in SAS Visual Analytics

Format in IF-RETURN-ELSE-statement

AB_prv — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 15:07:04 GMT

Hi all,

if have a measure in VA 8.3 which is defined by a IF-RETURN-ELSE Statement, let's call it test-measure:

IF 'parameter'p = "a"

RETURN 0.01

ELSE 1

I would like to have percent12.2 'if parameter'p = "a" and comma12. if 'parameter'p ^= "a". But formats in VA are linked to the format of test-measure. I tried to define a character-variable called format by

IF 'parameter'p = "a"

RETURN "COMMA12."

ELSE "PERCENT12.2"

and changed the xml file of my report by adding the variable name of my new character variable to the format statement of the old one, but it did not work(the code looked like this:

(<AggregateCalculatedItem dataType="double" name="bi5139" label="Berichtsgröße" format="bi1234">
<Expression>cond(eq(#{pr2548},'Relationen'),times(${bi5044,raw},100),${bi5134,raw})</Expression>

VA could not recognize it and compiled the variable as BESTX.

Is there any other workaround for my problem?

Re: Format in IF-RETURN-ELSE-statement

Reeza — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 15:08:55 GMT

That's a common issue in most DBs, you cannot have a single column have multiple types. What you can do is have the value pre-formatted and push it in as a character, but then you can't summarize/aggregate it. You may be better off splitting this into two variables?

Re: Format in IF-RETURN-ELSE-statement

SASKiwi — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 19:58:40 GMT

It is my understanding that use of SAS formats is "static" in SAS VA. You can change the report display format when building reports but not on the fly when running them.

Re: Format in IF-RETURN-ELSE-statement

AB_prv — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 07:33:14 GMT

Thank you for your suggestion, but that is not possible. Ich have a crosstable with more than 100 different variables, which are collected in one display-variable by a IF-RETURN-ELSE-statement. The display-variable itself is a agregated measure, so I cannot change the format to alphanumerical.

The column has to have one format, but the format depends on the value of a parameter.