Date:         Wed, 21 Apr 2004 21:35:23 -0400
Reply-To:     Don Stanley <don_stanley@PARADISE.NET.NZ>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Don Stanley <don_stanley@PARADISE.NET.NZ>
Subject:      Re: proc template and ods
Comments: To: lpogodajr292185@COMCAST.NET

PROC REPORT will start a new page for each patient if the patient id field
is a by group field. Have you tried using a BY in the data step to see if
that also works there?

Don



On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 20:51:51 -0400, Lou <lpogodajr292185@COMCAST.NET> wrote:

>I have a bunch data entered from CRF's, and I'm trying to output that data
>by patient ID.  The amount of data for any one patient is variable,
>depending on the CRF's submitted, and traditional listings are awkward and
>inconvenient to use when you're trying to get a picture of the overall
>condition of a particular patient.  So essentially I need to write a series
>of pages for each patient, showing question and response, but showing only
>the questions that were responded to.
>
>Easy enough to do with a data step.  More trouble but still doable using
>PROC REPORT.  Either way, the output isn't very "pretty", so when I was
>going through chapter 5 in the ODS manual (the chapter on PROC TEMPLATE)
and
>came to the second example, it looked like just the ticket - here we have a
>table (in html) produced in a data step.  I want rtf output, but that's
easy
>enough to change, and if not I can live with html.
>
>However the example produces one page of output.  I need to produce a
>separate table for each patient.  A table may run for several pages, but no
>page can have more than one patient on it, and all tables need to be in one
>file.  That's easy enough to do by hand in something like Microsoft Word,
>but I haven't been able to figure out how to finish one table and start
>another in the same file, or for that matter force a new page (analogous to
>PUT _PAGE_ in a data step) while remaining in the same table.  So far, SAS
>technical support hasn't been able to help, but neither have they said it's
>impossible.
>
>Can anyone help?
>
>Thanks
>
>Lou