How to close results viewer programatically - SAS 9.1.3

[lsirakos]

I am using ODS to output a pdf file with some graphs and I have everything how I want it except I need the results viewer to close after the code runs.  I can't do it based on changing the SAS options through the options menu or anything like that because the code will run on another machine and I cannot guarantee if that user will have their options configured that way.  Is there any way to do this programatically?

I found what looks to be one solution (link below) but it appears to change the SAS registry and I do not want to do that on someone else's machine.  If that option doesn't do anything permanent then I would assume that would work, I am not familiar with what the impacts of that code are.

http://support.sas.com/kb/13/128.html

Thanks

[MikeZdeb · Accepted solution]

hi ... if all you want is the PDF output, have you tried ...

ods listing close;

ods results off;

ods pdf file='z:\test.pdf' notoc;

* example plots;

proc gtestit pic=2;

run;

proc gplot data=sashelp.class;

plot weight*height;

run;

quit;

ods pdf close;

ods results;

ods listing;

[lsirakos]

Well how about that, that did the trick.  I didn't think it would work because when I googled the issue at first I found this:

http://support.sas.com/kb/31/789.html

I guess that link describes an issue that shouldn't happen instead of how to keep the results viewer from opening.

Thanks for the help!

[Linlin]

Hi Mike,

What does "notoc" do in "ods pdf file='z:\test.pdf' notoc;"?

Thank you!

[MikeZdeb]

hi Linlin ... no table of contents (eliminates the bookmarks that are added by default)

[Linlin]

Thank you Mike!  but I can't see the difference from the outputs:smileysilly:.

[MikeZdeb]

hi ... two examples, one with bookmarks (a table of contents), one without (using the NOTOC option)

[Linlin]

Thank you Mike! I see the difference.