PROC REPORT control which columns are on which page

[tarheel13]

Hi, I have 10 treatment groups. I need the first 5 treatment groups on 1 page and the next 5 treatment groups on the next page. Treatment groups are in COLUMNS, not rows. I know how to break the rows by page but I tried adjusting the column widths for treatment columns and it's still not coming out as desired. is adjusting the column width the only way to accomplish this? 

[PaigeMiller]

Please show us your code. Also, please tell us what output destination you are using.

[tarheel13]

I am using RTF output. Treatment columns are _1-_9 and _99 is overall column. I would like _1-5 on first page and _6-_9 and _99 on second page. same rows for both pages. &tmax is just a macro variable for how many treatment groups there are; in this case, there are 10. So that do loop is setting the column width the same for all treatment columns. p was a paging variable and judging from my RTF file, there are paging issues as well.

 proc report data=final1 headline nowd spacing=2 center headskip split='#' formchar(2)='_' missing 
                  out=&ov_out.(where=(_break_='')) style(report)=[outputwidth=100.0%] style(column)=[just=c];

        column (p  order order1 text0 text1 _1 ("&esc.S={borderbottomcolor=black borderbottomwidth=2} NS101" _2 _3 _4 _5 _6 _7 _8 _9 _99));

        define p           / order noprint; 
        define order         / order order=internal noprint;
        define order1      / order order=internal noprint;
    
        define text0       / order id  display 'Category' style(column)= [cellwidth=1.2in  just=l asis=on] style(header)=[just=l asis=on];

        define text1       / order id  display 'Statistic' style(column)= [cellwidth=0.6in  just=l asis=on /*borderleftcolor=black borderleftwidth=1*/] style(header)=[just=l asis=on /*borderleftcolor=black borderleftwidth=1*/];

        %do i=1 %to &tmax.;
          define %scan(&trtstr_n.,&i.)  / display   "&&trt_c&i." style(column)=[cellwidth=1in just=c];
        %end;
      
        break after p      / page;
        %report_headskip(p);
		%report_skip(after,order);
        %footnotes;
      run;

[PaigeMiller]

The only way I can think of getting some columns on one page and other columns on another page is to perform PROC REPORT on Columns 1 through 5, and then another PROC REPORT on columns 6-10 and 99.

I also would recommend you use the ACROSS capability in PROC REPORT rather than rather meaningless columns names like _1 which you then have to assign a label to via a macro variable.

[tarheel13]

_1-_10 are not meaningless. There is a macro that attributes them appropriately and they do not have to be labeled since the macro did that part. I did not include full program only the proc report portion. running proc report twice might work.

[PaigeMiller]

Sorry, I should not have used the word "meaningless", that was my mistake, as obviously you know what each column means and have a macro variable to put meaningful text into the report.

What I was trying to advise what that going through the effort of creating columns named _1 to _10 and _99 and having macro variables to label the columns simply isn't necessary if you use the ACROSS feature in PROC REPORT.

[data_null__ · Accepted solution]

Lookup at the documentation for the PAGE option on the DEFINE statement.  I think that is what you are looking for.

[tarheel13]

Thank you very much. I thought I knew PROC REPORT decently well but had not heard of this option and I have now researched it and it looks like it will solve my problem. Have a great night!