topic Line breaks inside dataset in SAS Web Report Studio

Line breaks inside dataset

jpoole412 — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:34:21 GMT

The actual data inside a dataset I'm using in a report contains control code to insert line breaks at certain places. Using EG I can print out the data and the line breaks are preserved (also using EG to export other formats preserves the breaks). However, when I insert the data in the web report, the line breaks are ignored and the data is displayed as one continuous line. Is there any ways to keep these line breaks in the data?

Thanks,

Jeff

Re: Line breaks inside dataset

Madelyn_SAS — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:38:48 GMT

Web Report Studio does not honor line breaks inserted by using control code. There is one workaround if you have 4.2 or later, but you would need to manipulate the data.

Specifically, if you replace your control code with </br>, and then turn on the "Display as hyperlink" feature for the data item in Information Map Studio, then WRS will honor the break.

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Re: Line breaks inside dataset

jpoole412 — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 18:07:56 GMT

Thank you very much for the quick help! Seems to of solved my problem.

Re: Line breaks inside dataset

jpoole412 — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 16:03:04 GMT

This does however lead to a follow-up question...

Using
works great and honors the line breaks in the report but the amount of data in an individual cell can be up to about 8,500 characters long. This makes the display of the data very odd when viewing a report (the column width for this variable is extremely large and is unable to be exported to a pdf). Is there any possible way to control this?

Thanks