An Introduction to ODS
Randy Poindexter & Scott Huntley
Output Delivery and Reporting
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Agenda
Why
What
Online resources
Q&A
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Some Isn’t Good Enough
Some procedures output some data sets.
Data sets contain some analysis results.
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Output Delivery System (ODS) Benefits
1. Integrate your output.
2. Customize content of your output.
3. Customize appearance of your output.
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Integrate Your Output
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HTML For the Web
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PDF for Portable Printing
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RTF for Microsoft Word
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XML for
Integration
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Scalable Vector Graphics
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd">
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" version="1.1">
<g>
<rect x="0" y="0" width="815" height="1056" style="fill: #FFFFFF; fill-rule: evenodd; " />
<rect x="0" y="0" width="815" height="1056" style="fill: #FFFFFF; fill-rule: evenodd; " />
<rect x="256" y="72" width="302" height="45" style="fill: #BBBBBB; fill-rule: evenodd; " />
<rect x="256" y="118" width="64" height="25" style="fill: #BBBBBB; fill-rule: evenodd; " />
<rect x="321" y="118" width="136" height="25" style="fill: #BBBBBB; fill-rule: evenodd; " />
<rect x="458" y="118" width="100" height="25" style="fill: #BBBBBB; fill-rule: evenodd; " />
<rect x="256" y="144" width="64" height="25" style="fill: #BBBBBB; fill-rule: evenodd; " />
<rect x="256" y="170" width="64" height="25" style="fill: #BBBBBB; fill-rule: evenodd; " />
<rect x="256" y="196" width="64" height="24" style="fill: #BBBBBB; fill-rule: evenodd; " />
<text x="551" y="9" style="stroke: #000000; fill: #000000; font-family: 'SAS Monospace'; fontsize: 10pt; " >10:22 Friday, October 29, 2004</text>
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XLS for Microsoft Excel
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Data Sets for Downstream Processing
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ActiveX Graphs
for Microsoft
Apps
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Java
Graphs
For
Portability
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ODS Statistical Graphics
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Selecting the Tables You Want
Why get 8 tables…
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when you really only want 1 ?
Table Structure
Our Way
Your Way
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Embedded Images
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Embedded
Links
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Customize Appearance of Your Output
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Styles
Default
BarrettsBlue
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Traffic Lighting
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Benefits of ODS
1. Integrate your output.
2. Customize content of your output.
3. Customize appearance of your output.
4. Improve your customer satisfaction!
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ODS Online Resources
Base community
http://support.sas.com/rnd/base/ods/index.html
User forum
http://support.sas.com/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=6
Online User’s Guide
http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/odsug/61723
/HTML/default/odsugwhatsnew902.htm
SAS-L newsgroup
ods@sas.com
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Enhancements to Inline Formatting
in SAS 9.2
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compute year;
bg + 1;
if mod(bg, 2) = 1 then
call define(_row_, "style", "style={background=cx494068 color=cxbbb2e0}");
else
call define(_row_, "style", "style={background=cxbbb2e0}");
endcomp;
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compute quantity;
if quantity.sum < 400 then
call define (_col_, "style","style=[color=red]");
endcomp;
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In-Line Style Syntax
Ods escapechar=< quoted character >;
/* This happens to be the default escape character */
Ods escapechar=“^”;
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In-Line Style Function
^{style <style-element-name><[style=attributes]> formatted text}
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Elements vs. Attributes
class HeaderStrong /
color = colors('headerfgstrong')
backgroundcolor = colors('headerbgstrong')
font = fonts('StrongFont');
Color red
Font size big
Font style italic
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In-Line Style Function
^{style [color = dark blue] text that is dark blue}
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In-Line Style Function
^{style SystemTitles [color=red] System Titles Text that is red}
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Titles
title 'You can use styles to set font attributes like
^{style [color=red]color} or ^{style [font_size=20pt]size}';
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Nesting of styles
ods text = "black ^{style [color=purple] purple ^{style
[font_style=italic] italic ^{style [fontsize=18pt] big text ^{style
[color=green] green } more} text} one} end";
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ods text='^{style[textdecoration=underline color=green
font_style=italic] text with underline}';
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Symbols
title 'Unicode symbols are easy to use';
title2 'Converting Dollars to Euros ^{unicode 0024}1 = ^{unicode 00AC}0.1794';
title3 'Converting Pounds to Yen ^{unicode 00A3}1 = ^{unicode 00A5}144.705';
title4 'You can use copyright ^{unicode 00A9} registered ^{unicode 00AE} and
trademarks ^{unicode 2122} too';
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Super or Sub scripts
ods text = "^{style [fontsize=18pt] big ^{super text}} or
^{style [fonsize=10pt] small ^{sub text}}";
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New Functions – nbspace & newline
title 'nbspace puts spaces between^{nbspace 5}words';
title2 'newline puts line breaks between^{newline 3}words‘;
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Individual Border Control
title "^{style [borderwidth=5pt bordertopcolor=red borderbottomwidth=20pt
borderrightstyle=double] Border Control Example}";
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Individual Border Control - PDF
title4 "*{style [bordertopwidth=1pt bordertopcolor=green
borderrightwidth=1pt borderrightcolor=light blue] Title 4 } ";
define col1 / "Dose 1 "
style(column)=[borderleftcolor=purple borderrightcolor=red
borderleftwidth=2pt borderrightwidth=2pt];
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