Hello! At the end of the sas program below, an email is generated and send out with a pdf containing a GPlot attached. data dummy1; input admin $char10. x y z; datalines; 12-12-1952 45 22 1 12-13-1952 55 32 1 12-14-1952 66 35 2 12-15-1952 63 30 2 12-16-1952 65 34 4 12-17-1952 . . . 12-18-1952 . . . 12-19-1952 . . . ; options missing=' ' nocenter papersize=legal orientation=portrait nodate nonumber leftmargin=0.3in rightmargin=0.3in; ods escapechar="^"; title; ODS PDF file="C:\<insert your path>\file_with_gplot.pdf" startpage=no; ods text=" "; ods text= "^{style [just=left font=('calibri', 12pt, bold)] Data}"; ods text=" "; proc report data=dummy1 nowd split='~' nowd style(column)={cellheight=0.17in} style(header)={cellheight=0.25in fontsize=6pt fontfamily='calibri'} style(column)=[ fontfamily='calibri' fontsize=6pt]; title; column admin x y z; define admin/ display "Date"; define x/ display "% All" style(column)=[cellwidth=0.7in just=center]; define y/ display "% Most" style(column)=[cellwidth=0.7in just=center]; define z/ display "% Some" style(column)=[cellwidth=0.7in just=center]; run; goptions reset=global gunit=pct border cback=white colors=(black blue green red) ftitle=swissb ftext=swissb htitle=3.5 htext=2 vsize=3 hsize=3.5 horigin=0 vorigin=6; title1 'Gplot of X, Y, Z over Date'; symbol1 color=red interpol=join value=dot height=3; symbol2 font=marker color=blue interpol=join value=C height=3; symbol3 font=marker color=green interpol=join value=X height=3; axis1 label=("The" justify=c "Date") major=(height=2) minor=(height=1) width=3; axis2 order=(0 to 100 by 10) offset=(0,0) label=none major=(height=2) minor=(height=1) width=3; legend1 label=none shape=symbol(4,2) position=(top center inside) mode=share; proc gplot data=dummy1; plot x*admin y*admin z*admin / overlay legend=legend1 haxis=axis1 hminor=4 vaxis=axis2 vminor=1; run; quit; ODS PDF close; FILENAME OUTBOX EMAIL TO = ("<insert_your_email>@<xyz.com>") REPLYTO = ("<insert_your_email>@<xyz.com>") SUBJECT = ("Test - pdf file with embedded Gplot ") ATTACH = ("C:\<insert your path>\file_with_gplot.pdf"); DATA _NULL_; FILE OUTBOX; PUT ; PUT %SYSFUNC(COMPBL("This email was generated via sas program.")); PUT ; RUN; FILENAME OUTBOX CLEAR; data _null_; put '** the SAS job is now finished'; run; data _null_; file print ; title; put; put '** the SAS job is now finished'; run; All works fine (no errors, etc) if you run this program interactively - the pdf is generated, the email with the pdf attached is sent ... We have been trying to schedule this program to run every morning at 5 AM; we were hoping that Windows Task Scheduler would be the ticket. (by the way, I have Window 8.1 Enterprise) (if you haven't used windows task, one key feature is you have windows task scheduler run a windows bat file - and this bat file runs the sas program or programs - below are the contents of the bat file I am using to run the above sas program (the sas program is named "sas_gplot_pdf_test_task_scheduler.sas")) "C:\Program Files\SASHome\x86\SASFoundation\9.4\sas.exe" -SYSIN "C:\transfer\sas_gplot_pdf_test_task_scheduler.sas" -LOG "C:\transfer\sas_gplot_pdf_test_task_scheduler.log" -PRINT "C:\transfer\sas_gplot_pdf_test_task_scheduler.lst" And now here is the PROBLEM (sorry for yelling ;-): When the scheduler fires up, it runs the bat file, which launches sas (see image below): And then just sits there ("hangs") - the log and print file have been generated, but the pdf has not, and no email has been sent. It just sits ... The only way I can get things to move forward is to hit the little red "x" for graph window (see image below) - which means this is no longer an automatically scheduled/launched sas program (I don't want to wake up every morning at 5 AM to hit a little red x). I know that in interactive sas one can use either dm "graph; end"; or proc greplay igout = work.gseg nofs; delete _all_; run; quit; to clear the Graph 1 Window - but neither seem to work when the sas program is run via Task Scheduler (i.e., when you are not running interactive sas). Thanks in Advance!
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