Advanced Output Delivery System Topics

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Duration: 2.0 days
Course fee:
EPTO units: .
CEUs: 1.2

This course teaches you how to modify the structure of Output Delivery System (ODS) reports as well as presentation aspects such as colors, fonts, borders, and margins. The course is for advanced report programmers who are able to create reports using SAS procedures and the DATA step but need to enhance the reports with advanced ODS features.

Learn how to

modify existing table and style templates
create your own table and style templates
create and modify ODS documents
incorporate ODS options
format within a cell.

Who should attend

SAS programmers, report writers, and analysts

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Prerequisites

Before attending this course, you should be able to

submit SAS programs on your operating system
access SAS files using the LIBNAME statement
create SAS output from Base SAS procedures
create default RTF, PDF, or HTML output using ODS.

You can obtain this knowledge by completing the Creating Detail and Summary Reports course.

Course Contents

Customizing Table Templates

Defining table templates
Accessing table templates
Creating table templates
Understanding inheritance (self-study)
Modifying the columns
Customizing headers and footers
Using macro variables
Adding URLs (self-study)
Creating and using custom table templates
Computing additional columns
Adding traffic lighting
Creating generic columns

Customizing Style Templates with ODS

Defining style templates
Identifying style elements
Defining style attributes
Understanding inheritance
Modifying an existing style template
Using a parent template
Creating a custom style template

Using ODS DOCUMENT and the DOCUMENT Procedure

Introduction to ODS DOCUMENT
Creating an ODS document
Using the Documents Window
Using the DOCUMENT procedure

Using Options and ODS ESCAPECHAR

ODS options that apply to multiple destinations
ODS options that apply to specific destinations
Global options that apply to ODS destinations
ODS statements and procedure options (self-study)
Using ODS ESCAPECHAR
Additional examples of ODS ESCAPECHAR (self-study)
Using destination specific syntax
Using hex characters (self-study)

Software

This course addresses Base SAS.

Course Materials

Students receive a hardcopy of the course notes and, in some courses, can choose to take home a copy of the course data.

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