Main Tasks You Can Perform in the ODS Graphics Designer

The following list highlights some of the tasks that you can perform using the ODS Graphics Designer:
  • use a gallery of predefined graphs to quickly create a graph. You can also add your own graphs to the gallery.
  • create multi-cell graphs, classification panels, and scatter plot matrices
  • add plots and reference lines to a graph.
  • add and format titles and footnotes.
  • add and customize legends.
  • change the visual appearance of the entire graph by changing the applied style. You can also develop your own style.
  • change the appearance of individual plot elements such as markers and lines.
  • change the appearance of the axes. You can also change an axis type and customize the range of values that are displayed on the axis.
  • resize the graph.
  • copy a graph (image) to the system clipboard to paste directly into other applications.
  • create graphs that can be reused with different variables in the same or different data set. These graphs are called shared-variable graphs.
    Note: The shared-variable feature is new in the third maintenance release for SAS 9.2.