How to use RWI with ODS DOCUMENT to create a PDF report?

[maxpgn]

Greetings,

I hope you can help me with a problem i can't figure out. I need to create a PDF report in SAS 9.4. The report includes just one table, with a very complex header, so I used RWI (data _NULL_) to create it.

Now I need to replicate the table on another PDF report, so I thought it would have been a good idea to save the table as an ODS DOCUMENT so to use PROC DOCUMENT/REPLAY to insert the table on both reports.

Unfortunately, when I try to load the ODS DOCUMENT, I get an empty PDF. It seems that output created via the RWI cannot be saved as on ODS DOCUMENT.

Any idea?

This is a simplified version of my code:

* Program number 1: to create the ODS DOCUMENT object M05_tab;

ODS _all_ CLOSE;

ods document name=DOCUMS.M05_TAB(WRITE);

data _NULL_;
  set work.M05_DATI_REP end=done;
    if _n_ eq 1 then do;
         declare odsout t();
         t.table_start();
         t.head_start();
         t.row_start();
               t.format_cell(...);
               t.format_cell(...);

.....

run;

ods document close;

*program number 2: to use the ODS DOCUMENT Object;

ods _all_ close;

ods pdf file="filename.pdf" style=SasWeb Startpage = off NOTOC;

ods layout gridded columns=1;

PROC DOCUMENT NAME=DOCUMS.M05_TAB;
REPLAY;
QUIT;

ODS LAYOUT END;

Thank You very much for your time and help

Max

[Cynthia_sas]

Hi:
You might want to ask your question of Tech Support. If RWI isn't supported by ODS DOCUMENT now, they may know of a workaround.

Cynthia

[maxpgn]

Hi and thank you for answering. But is it possible that rwi is not supported by ods document? I read that it can be thought as another destination like pdf, html and so on.....

[Cynthia_sas · Accepted solution]

Hi:
I do not know the definitive answer. When I try to use the RWI with ODS DOCUMENT, I do not get any error messages in the log but I also do not get any objects in the document store. I think that Tech Support can provide you with the definitive answer. I would have expected a NOTE or ERROR message in the log.

Cynthia

[maxpgn]

Thank You anyway...

I wrote an email to the referee for the RWI and I got the answer: as a matter of fact, RWI cannot be used with proc document