ODS RTF - Titles & footnotes -OR- ODS RTF TEXT= & footnotes

[Amanda_]

I've been going back and forth about this problem and I haven't been able to figure out a solution.

I have a multi-page report and I need footnotes on all of the pages with #BYVAL1 in them.

On the first page I have paragraphs of text & #BYVAL's within.

I know I can do this with titles but I do not want the titles to repeat on any pages after the first one.

I found a possible workaround for the titles to suppress after page 1 but my footnote on the first page did not display the #BYVAL1.

http://listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0912a&L=sas-l&H=1&P=7883

I tried ODS RTF TEXT = " text is here #BYVAL2 and here. ^2n More text here";

That didn't work and I couldn't find papers that showed me how to get a variable in the text.

Any suggestions on how I should approach this? Thanks.

[Cynthia_sas · Accepted solution]

Hi:

  That syntax shown in your link for the DATA step is still pre-production. I'm not sure that the techniques illustrated work as you expect for footnotes. Also, the syntax could have changed between SAS 9.3 and when that suggestion was posted. #BYVAL doesn't work with ODS TEXT=. It makes sense if you think about it. BY statements work within one procedure and how it processes data. But, the ODS TEXT= statement sits "outside" any single procedure call.

  You could "macroize" your program to do each BY group separately, which would allow you to still use #BYVAL for each  footnote and/or change the title for each BY group, using %IF conditional logic. Look on page 6 of this paper to see the SORTANDPRINT macro program for some idea of how macro variables can be  used in the TITLE statement:

http://www2.sas.com/proceedings/sugi29/243-29.pdf

You'd only need to add a bit of code to get a BY statement and and #BYVAL info working in  the macro program.

cynthia