The REPORT Procedure

PROMPTER

Prompts you for information as you add items to a report.

Specify the PROMPT option when you start PROC REPORT or select PROMPT from the ROPTIONS window. The PROMPTER window opens the next time that you add an item to the report.

Description

The prompter guides you through parts of the windows that are most commonly used to build a report. As the content of the PROMPTER window changes, the title of the window changes to the name of the window that you would use to perform a task if you were not using the prompter. The title change is to help you begin to associate the windows with their functions and to learn what window to use if you later decide to change something.

If you start PROC REPORT with prompting, then the first window gives you a chance to limit the number of observations that are used during prompting. When you exit the prompter, PROC REPORT removes the limit.

Buttons

OK

applies the information in the open window to the report and continues the prompting process.

Note: When you select OK from the last prompt window, PROC REPORT removes any limit on the number of observations that it is working with. [cautionend]

Apply

applies the information in the open window to the report and keeps the window open.

Backup

returns you to the previous PROMPTER window.

Exit Prompter

closes the PROMPTER window without applying any more changes to the report. If you have limited the number of observations to use during prompting, then PROC REPORT removes the limit.

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