Advanced Output Delivery System

Role

Business Analyst

Duration

2 days

Description

This course teaches you how to modify the structure of ODS reports as well as presentation aspects such as colours, fonts, borders, and margins. You learn how to use the TEMPLATE procedure to modify existing table templates for use with SAS procedures and create custom table templates for use with the DATA step. The course also teaches you how to create ODS documents as well as how to browse, modify, or replay the ODS documents.

Prerequisites

Before attending this course, you should: Be able to submit SAS programmes on your operating system. Be able to access SAS files with the LIBNAME statement. Be able to create SAS output fro BASE SAS procedures. Be able to create default RTF, PDF, or HTML output using ODS. You can obtain this knowledge by completing the Creating Detail and Summary Reports course or the Getting Started with the Output Delivery System course.

SAS Modules Used

Base SAS

Course Topics

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)

Objectives

After attending this course you will be able to: Modify the structure of ODS reports as well aspects of presentation such as colours, fonts, borders, and margins. Specifically you will learn how to: Use the TEMPLATE procedure to modify existing table templates for use with SAS procedures and create custom table templates for use with the DATA step; create, browse, modify and replay ODS Documents.