Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 09:25:44 -0400
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From: Nat Wooding <Nathaniel.Wooding@DOM.COM>
Subject: Re: Emailing SAS Graphs using the pull down option -- SAS 9.1
under Windows
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David
Many thanks for the reply.
I, too, have no love for BMPs and when offered the opportunity, save
graphics files in more compact formats. While our internal email will allow
me to send such porcine files, our limits on stored email will often cause
problems.
I have had a couple replies from tech support and they, of course, said
that I have two alternatives:
1) use the feature as it now stands: select email from the drop down
and send it as a bmp with a default name
2) use the export feature where I have complete control and then
create the message on my own and attach the graph.
TS did forward my gripes (sans, unfortunately, a gripe about the file being
bmp by default) to the developers but I was offered no hope of there being
any action on the matter.
As I said, I only recently took notice of the feature and I have used it a
couple times where I needed to create an ad hoc graph and then email it to
a couple folks at work. Given their computer skills, I do not expect them
to save the graphs on their hard drives. However, I am still unhappy that I
cannot give the file a name that would mean something.
In summary, this feature offers a nice way to quickly send a graph but
realllllllllllllyyyyyyyyyyy falls down on the options available to the
user. And now, to test your knowledge of crude American idiom, the feature
reminds me of a phrase that involves the uselessness of bits of the anatomy
of male pigs.
I hope you are having a great weekend.
Nat
Nat Wooding
Environmental Specialist III
Dominion, Environmental Biology
4111 Castlewood Rd
Richmond, VA 23234
Phone:804-271-5313, Fax: 804-271-2977
David Johnson
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08/17/2007 08:24 pull down option -- SAS 9.1
PM under Windows
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d@dkvj.biz
I think this is what I would expect. There is no love lost between the
space on my hard drive and BMP files. I find them to be extremely
inefficient and prefer one of the compressed formats, selecting the level
of
compression the task will bear. This also means I specify an output file
name and use an appropriate SAS/Graph driver for the output.
The default behaviour is useful only to demonstrate that the graph
generation works and that the email engine is correctly configured.
Depending on an approach that delivers bloat mails puts my work at risk of
not being read due to file sizes and email filtering rules. So in answer
to
question 1; no.
Which means that my answer to question 2 is also no.
You should bear in mind though that I don't consider my work to be part of
the "average" community, especially when so many people are performing D &
M
stat analyses, and a lot of others produce ad-hoc and one-off analysis and
reporting.
Good luck in solving your issue.
Kind regards
David
-----Original Message-----
From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU]On Behalf Of Nat
Wooding
Sent: Wednesday, 15 August 2007 12:32 AM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Emailing SAS Graphs using the pull down option -- SAS 9.1 under
Windows
Version: 9.1, TS1M3 under Win XP Pro
If one creates a graph using SAS Graph and then clicks on File/Send Mail. a
new message will be created in one's email system and the graph will appear
as an
attached BMP file. This is a nice feature since the alternative would be to
export the file, go to email, open a new message, and attach the file.
However -- and this is my main gripe -- there appears to be no option for
naming the attached file. A second gripe is that one can only add one graph
using this feature.
Question1: Does anyone else use this method of emailing a graph
Question2: Are you, too, bugged by this limitation in naming the
attachment.
I have opened a track with tech support (US 6611975) but I thought that I
would poll the group and see what the SAS community feelings are.
Nat Wooding
Environmental Specialist III
Dominion, Environmental Biology
4111 Castlewood Rd
Richmond, VA 23234
Phone:804-271-5313, Fax: 804-271-2977
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