Chapter 16: Managing Web Output with ODS
Overview of ODS Enhancements for Web Output
Using ODS with SAS/GRAPH has numerous advantages over generating HTML output by other means. With ODS, you can
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specify parameters for presentations that run in the Java applets or in the SAS/GRAPH Control for ActiveX.
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use ODS styles to enhance the appearance of your graphs with images, color gradients and blends, transparency, and shading (see Using ODS Styles on page 488 ).
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name the body file(s) for storing the ODS output (see Specifying Body Files for Displaying Graphs on page 491).
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determine whether titles and footnotes are written as part of the graphs or as part of the HTML files (see Controlling Titles and Footnotes with ODS Output on page 492).
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combine graphics and non-graphics output in your Web page (see Adding Non-Graphics Output to a Web Page on page 494).
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generate a Table of Contents to link to the output (see Linking to Output through a Table of Contents on page 495).
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generate a Table of Pages to link to the output (see Linking to Output through a Table of Pages on page 496).
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use HTML frames to display the Table of Contents or Table of Pages (see Using Frames to Display ODS Output on page 497).
At a minimum, to use ODS with SAS/GRAPH, you must do all of the following:
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Use a GOPTIONS statement to specify a device driver with the DEVICE= graphics option.
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Open an HTML output file using an ODS statement such as ODS HTML or ODS MARKUP. At a minimum, you must use the BODY= (alias FILE=) option to specify a body file. For device drivers that generate image output files, use the PATH= or GPATH= option to ensure that all output files are stored in the same location.
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Run a graphics procedure.
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Close the HTML destination.
There are many ODS statements that enable many types of output. There are also a number of ODS options other than the ones that are discussed here that can be used to configure HTML output. For further information, refer to the SAS Output Delivery System: User s Guide .
