This course is designed for SAS programmers or users that would like to take advantage of the SAS ODS system.
Duration
2 days
Prerequisites
Students should have attended “Introduction to SAS” training or have equivalent experience.
Abstract
The SAS ODS product is a powerful component of the SAS system that directs SAS output to multiple destinations. This course will introduce students to the SAS ODS product to enhance SAS reports. Emphasis will be on practical applications for everyday SAS work. It will not address PROC TEMPLATE in detail.
Objectives
Understand ODS components
Invoke those components with ODS statements
Enable or disable the listing destination
Send current SAS reports to HTML for publishing to a web server
Import SAS reports into Excel and other programs
Create RTF and PDF files via ODS
Create SAS output data files from ODS
Understand basic HTML as it relates to SAS
Create a table of contents for HTML files
Include graphics in your reports
Automatically email reports generated by SAS jobs
Understand the difference between SAS styles & stylesheets.
Archive historic reports
Show emphasis on important numbers or graph areas by changing background colors or fonts
Outline
Creating HTML reports
Using SAS Styles
Exporting HTML to Excel and other programs
Creating RTF Output
Using the PRINTER and PDF destinations
Creating Output Data Tables
Introduction to HTML statements and tags
Creating a HTML table of contents
Using Embedded Links in reports
Linking pages and providing “drill down” capabilities
Emailing capabilities of SAS and ODS
Using Cascading Style Sheets
Customized Styles for Proc Tabulate, Report and Print
