A MORE COMPLETE ODS REPORT
What we’re going to talk about… Creating a title page Creating an introduction page Creating long-form text descriptions Creating a table of contents Structuring the graph pages Some other ODS and style template things that are required to pull everything together
How we’re going to do it… ODS inline formatting Used for displaying the header, creating links, and formatting text Graph template language Used for creating the graphs and structuring the pages Style templates Used for certain graph attributes and general formatting Macro variables Used for containing graph text descriptions
The ODS preamble Line 914 – style=mycolors is a user-defined style template needed for changing some graph colors Line 916 – ods trace on is an option that returns information about style templates in the log Line 917 – Defines the character that allows inline formatting. In the case it is a tilde
Title page
Making the title page… Use ODS inline formatting to pull in the DCBS header Use a proc to provide the title Creating a page for text in ODS requires a proc statement of some kind I couldn’t find a way to insert a blank page without one
The DCBS logo header Line 919 and 923 – define the size of the page and where the logo picture will go Line 921 – uses the ODS escape character to use the preimage statement to pull in the picture at the specified location Wasn’t able to find a lot of online documentation on the preimage statement
The title text Line 892 through 895 – creates the text string that forms the title and put it into a dataset Line 894 – the ~n is the inline formatting character for a new line of text Line 926 through 928 – creates the centered text on the title page
Introduction page
Making the introduction page Read in the introductory text from a.txt file This.txt file can have inline formatting delineated by the ods escape character Print it
What the introductory text looks like You can see there are unneeded quotes around the text string I should get rid of the quotes and see if there is an inline formatting character for a tab (  perhaps) Regular spaces won’t work because of the strip() function About half-way through you can see two newline characters (~n~n)
Reading in the introductory text Line 30 through 33 – read in the text from chartbookintro.txt into the 5,000 character long variable called intro We don’t know how long the text string is so we make sure the variable is overlong Line 37 – use the strip() function to get rid of the excess spaces
Outputting the introductory text Line 933 – print the output Uses the noobs statement to suppress the observation number
Table of contents
Making the table of contents Use proc report to produce the table of contents header Use inline formatting to produce links
Making the table of contents text Line 936 through 938 – the title is done the same way we did the title for the title pagetitle page Line 935 – this is how the location is defined for linking At the bottom of each chart page is a link to this anchored location so you can get back to the contents page easily
Making the chart links Line 940 through 945 – ods pdf text inserts a text string on a page ~S is used to denote a series of formatting statements url=‘#chart1’ is the link that is underneath the text string ‘Chart 1 – WCTax enterers and exiters’ ‘#chart1’ is defined in an ods pdf anchor statement The first occurrence is for spacing purposes
The chart
Making the chart pages The chart template The text in the sidebar ODS output, link back to the table of contents, and the pdf anchor destination
Creating the chart template Line 614 – define one row with two columns. 1 st column contains graphs and 2 nd column contains the text Line 619 – defines three rows in first column for three graphs
Creating the chart template This defines the top barchart on page 8 Line 631 – group=organization has an impact on how to format the bars. The bar colors can’t be changed from inside the graph template; they have to be changed in the ODS style template
Style template interactions
Changing the color of grouped series Line 906 and 907 – define the color of grouped data Line 908 – sets the light-grey background color Line 909 – linkcolor=_undef_ gets rid of an ugly box around hyperlinks
Adding the text sidebar Line 40 through 48 – reading in the text and putting it into a macro variable Line 663 – drawtext is put in the graph template the same place a chart type would be entered. In our case it is the sole occupant of the right side of the graph page Line 664 – anchor=topleft tells the template where the text is to start and width=100 tells the template how far across the text extends. The remainder defines how the text is justified
Making the charts and their links Line 947, 951, and 955 – the ods pdf anchor for each page is defined on these lines. These are the locations in the pdf that the links on the table of contents page point to Line 948, 952, and 956 – these lines produce the charts from the different datasets and through the graph templates Line 949, 953, and 957 – the ods pdf text statement produces a link back to the table of contents
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