Sorry again for bothering Still having a problem with this   Here is what I am doing  I am using discretattrmap to add the specific colour and shape discreteattrmap name='colors' / ignorecase=true; value '1' / markerattrs=(color=blue symbol=squarefilled ); value '2' / markerattrs=(color=blue symbol=square ) ; value '3' / markerattrs=(color=viro symbol=diamondfilled); enddiscreteattrmap; discreteattrvar attrvar=classfill var=id attrmap='colors'; then the plot is created with the following code    highlowplot y=obsid low=low high=high / CLIPCAP=true; scatterplot y=obsid x=mean / markersizeresponse=w markersizemin=10 markersizemax=30 group=classfill ;   But THe character in the middle of the OR line is not showing! If i change the code to     referenceline y=ref / lineattrs=(thickness=15 color=_bandcolor); highlowplot y=obsid low=low high=high / CLIPCAP=true; scatterplot y=obsid x=mean / markerattrs=(symbol=squarefilled) group=classfill ; it will work perfectly but the symboles are all squares   if I change the code to    highlowplot y=obsid low=low high=high / CLIPCAP=true; scatterplot y=obsid x=mean / markersizeresponse=w markersizemin=10 markersizemax=30 group=classfill ; Then the boxes are resized according tot he column w but all the symboles are the same of course     THe problem arizes when I try to combine these two options: highlowplot y=obsid low=low high=high / CLIPCAP=true; scatterplot y=obsid x=mean / markersizeresponse=w markersizemin=10 markersizemax=30 group=classfill ; Any idea on how to solve this? See attached image Kind regards     ... View more

THanks again Sanjay, excellent answers and guidance   Interestingly, new solutions create new challenges, useing the highlow plot to draw a bar according to the weight of the study works great. However, I ended up being unable to control the height of the bar which became disproportional in the graph, see attached figure. I looked up any attributes that I could use to adjust the height but couldnt, any suggestions please? Kind regards AM   ... View more

Hi Sanjay Excellent suggestion as usual SAS has celarly a lot of power creating good graphs, including Forest plots. PLease look at the examples in the following article which were made by sas, there are several Forest plots http://www.bmj.com/content/341/bmj.c4737.full.pdf I wonder if you can think of a way of producing the "verically squished" diamoned figure used in the plots?   Kind regards Ammar   ... View more

Dear Sanjay and Rick Thank you for your suggestions, I managed to implement them now succeesfully, in the proc template I have added the following:   entrytitle 'id'; discreteattrmap name='colors' / ignorecase=true; value '1' / markerattrs=(color=blue symbol=squarefilled ); value '2' / markerattrs=(color=green symbol=diamond); value '3' / markerattrs=(color=red symbol=diamondfilled); enddiscreteattrmap; discreteattrvar attrvar=classfill var=id attrmap='colors'; Then for the plot itself in the same template: highlowplot y=obsid low=low high=high / CLIPCAP=true; scatterplot y=obsid x=mean / markersizeresponse=wt markersizemin=10 markersizemax=30 group=classfill; referenceline x=1; However, as Sanjay mentioned, this is creating another problem: The markersizeresponce is affecting the hight as well as the width of the marker, is there a way to controll these individually? I would be more interested in correlating the width of the marker to the weight of the contrubuting study in the table   Thank you ... View more

Thanks As you mentioned there are many ways described in the blogs. Implementing them is not straight forward since the forest plot coding I am refering to uses proc template Would you please suggest a simple way of using colour coding from a column or even grouping by a column content to modify the marker colour and shape? Thanks again ... View more

Is there a way to do similar modification to the shape and colour of the marker? ie by having a column with shape names and a column with colours for each study? Kind regards   ... View more

Thanks Rick, that solved it! Kind regards AM ... View more

Thank you for the kind reply To further explain, the problem is in the size=WT part, this statement needs a numerical, so if I change to  size=15 then the plot works but all the studies would have the same symple weight, which I am trying to change Thanks ... View more