topic Re: How to create million format to measure in SAS VA in SAS Visual Analytics

How to create million format to measure in SAS VA

ChrisWu — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 21:34:59 GMT

How to create million format to measure in SAS VA

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Re: How to create million format to measure in SAS VA

SASKiwi — Sat, 03 Feb 2018 05:46:09 GMT

What do you want your million format to look like? You need to provide an example otherwise we just end up guessing.

Re: How to create million format to measure in SAS VA

ChrisWu — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 13:39:06 GMT

Variable SUM_AMT=1,234,567,890 and want VA report to display formatted SUM_AMT value as 1,234.46

Re: How to create million format to measure in SAS VA

ChrisWu — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 15:30:31 GMT

The closest format is BESTw.

Could SAS create something like BESTRw. (aka BEST Roman)

Value > BEST6. > * (BESTR4.)

1,234 > 1.23 E3 > 1.23 K

1,234,567 > 1.23 E6 > 1.23 M

1,234,567,890 > 1.23 E9 > 1.23 B

1,234,567,890,123 > 1.23 E12 > 1.23 T

Re: How to create million format to measure in SAS VA

MikeJenista — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 20:27:06 GMT

I would just create a new column that divides this one by 1,000,000. Then you can adjust the trailing digits after the decimal with the standard numeric format options.

Re: How to create million format to measure in SAS VA

SASKiwi — Thu, 08 Feb 2018 01:47:59 GMT

Depending on the type of reports you are developing, VA can scale numbers automatically. For example I have a number of VA graphs where I have applied the SAS DOLLAR format to the source data and the graph automatically labels and scales the axes with "$ millions". You might want to check this out.

Re: How to create million format to measure in SAS VA

ChrisWu — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 16:40:24 GMT

Thanks! I need the Million formatted, firstly, in a CrossTab Report, then a graph would follow based on the data from CrossTab

Re: How to create million format to measure in SAS VA

ChrisWu — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 16:44:01 GMT

umm .. this does not address drilldown to smaller aggregations that divide by 1,000 would be more appropriate.