Hi there,
I'm trying to run SAS graph into a sas item store before replaying into a single PDF using PROC DOCUMENT and the issue I have is that I only want to present the top level bookmark in the PDF.
I see various methods and solutions for achieving this for PROC REPORT (using the contents ="") however I cannot find a similar SAS/GRAPH solution for when the graphs span more than one page.
Using the description option only controls the bookmark name, and when setting description = "" this only creates a blank bookmark where as I do not want this bookmark creating at all.
Below is some sample code to show the issue I face.
Any help would be very much appreciated!
ods document name=temp(write);
proc sort data=sashelp.class out=class; by sex; run;
ods noproctitle;
ods proclabel="";
proc sgplot data=class description="";
by sex;
scatter x=height y=weight;
run;
ods document close;
/* Create data set from all levels */
ods output properties=temp;
proc document name=temp;
list / levels=all;
run;
quit;
/* Create a unique macro variable for each object */
data _null_;
set temp end=last;
if type in("Table","Report","Graph") then do;
count+1;
call symput('path'||trim(left(count)),path);
end;
if last then call symput('total',count);
run;
/* Loop through each macro variable and copy the output */
/* object to a new folder and then replay it. */
%macro test;
ods pdf file="temp.pdf";
proc document name=temp;
make \ newfolder;
setlabel \ newfolder "I only want one level of bookmark for this SGPLOT";
%do i=1 %to &total;
copy &&path&i to \ newfolder#1;
%end;
replay \newfolder;
run;
quit;
ods pdf close;
%mend;
%test;
The trick of not having the procedures generate the bookmark, but instead creating one yourself should work with SGraph procedures just as well.
I modified your code a bit, does this come close to what you are looking for ?
ods document name=temp(write);
proc sort data=sashelp.class out=class; by sex; run;
ods noproctitle;
ods proclabel="";
proc sgplot data=class description="";
by sex;
scatter x=height y=weight;
run;
ods document close;
/* Create data set from all levels */
ods output properties=temp;
proc document name=temp;
list / levels=all;
run;
quit;
/* Create a unique macro variable for each object */
data _null_;
set temp end=last;
if type in("Table","Report","Graph") then do;
count+1;
call symput('path'||trim(left(count)),path);
end;
if last then call symput('total',count);
run;
/* Loop through each macro variable and copy the output */
/* object to a new folder and then replay it. */
%macro test;
ods pdf file="c:\temp\want.pdf" startpage=no;
ODS PROCLABEL 'First bookmark';
data _null_;
declare odsout ODS();
ODS.note(data: " ", style_attr: 'font_size=1pt');
run;
ods pdf nobookmarkgen;
proc document name=temp;
make \ newfolder;
setlabel \ newfolder "I only want one level of bookmark for this SGPLOT";
%do i=1 %to &total;
copy &&path&i to \ newfolder#1;
%end;
replay \newfolder;
run;
quit;
%mend;
%test;
ods pdf close;
Hi Mathias.. thanks for the response
Whilst the below statement has the desired outcome of only creating the output with 1 bookmark, this also affects the actual plot where a 3 page document is created with the first 2 pages blank and then the third shows only a truncated part of the plot.
data _null_;
declare odsout ODS();
ODS.note(data: " ", style_attr: 'font_size=1pt');
run;
I'm not so familiar with controlling ODS documents from a datastep, so any pointers to address this would be really appreciated.
Thanks
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