I am trying to add leading spaces to a calculated item that is going on a button bar, but VA won't display them. I am using 7.4. I have tried adding the spaces to the text itself inside the quotation marks, and also concatenating a sting of just spaces.
(This is to workaround the inability to right justify text in button bars... which is to workaround the fact that you can't put a text box in the report prompt area...)
Thanks.
You can filter on the leading spaces, but the spaces are not displayed. See Usage Note 57176: SAS® Visual Analytics does not preserve leading blanks in displayed or exported da...
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As a SAS programmer with no VA knowledge ...
Are you able to apply a format to your field? In SAS language, the $CHAR formats maintain leading blanks that might otherwise be removed from displaying:
format varname $char10.;
Unfortunately, that did not work. Thanks for the suggestion, though.
You can filter on the leading spaces, but the spaces are not displayed. See Usage Note 57176: SAS® Visual Analytics does not preserve leading blanks in displayed or exported da...
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