Shorten category variables in Treemaps

[oudenampsenm]

In SAS VA 6.3. category variables in treemaps which contain many characters show an empty line in treemaps. Instead of using substrings to limit the number of characters in advance it might be valuable to create an option which can select a certain amount of characters of the variable (for example:"1533 Maligne neoplasma colon sigmoideum" becomes "1533 Maligne neoplasma..." instead of "...") . Hence we don't have to prepare the data with substrings every time we use variables which contain a high number of characters

[ballardw]

Have you tried assigning a shorter format to the offending variable? If the variable is 50 characters but you want to show maybe 10 in the output I would add a;

Format variablename $10. ; to the proc code and see what happens.