SAS Procedure Output: Using Formats With ODS Style Options to Produce a Trafficlighting Effect
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The presentation demonstrates a powerful but lesser-known programming technique that uses formats and ODS style options with the commonly used SAS PRINT procedure to add highlights to SAS report output.
Example report with trafficlighting
Watch the Presentation
Watch SAS Procedure Output: Using Formats With ODS Style Options to Produce a Trafficlighting Effect presented by Brian Gayle, SAS Education.
Documentation
- Use ODS Styles with PROC PRINT
- ODS Style Attributes Detailed Information
- Locations (the parts of the report that style options affect) for PROC PRINT
- Color-Naming Schemes Explained
- Dictionary of ODS Statements
Additional resources
Resources available from the Demos section in the sas-global-forum-2021 GitHub repository
Visit - https://github.com/sascommunities/sas-global-forum-2021
- The Slides – TrafficLightSlides.pdf
- The Program – TrafficLightProgram.sas
- Links to Related Documentation – TrafficLightDocNavAndLinks.pdf
- Gray-Scale Colors – TrafficLightColorsGrey.pdf
- Hue, Saturation, Lightness Colors – TrafficeLightColorsHSL.pdf
- Red, Green, Blue Colors – TrafficLightColorsRBG.pdf
- SAS Color Names – TrafficLightColorsSAS.pdf