Date:         Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:58:11 -0400
Reply-To:     Arthur Tabachneck <art297@NETSCAPE.NET>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Arthur Tabachneck <art297@NETSCAPE.NET>
Subject:      Re: Use SAS to print out System Notes
Comments: To: "Howard Schreier <hs AT dc-sug DOT org>" <nospam@HOWLES.COM>

Howard,

The documentation can be found at:
http://support.sas.com/documentation/onlinedoc/base/91/forms.pdf

Art
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On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:41:25 -0400, Howard Schreier <hs AT dc-sug DOT org>
<nospam@HOWLES.COM> wrote:

>On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 20:41:23 -0700, Steve_Bates <steve.bates003@GMAIL.COM>
>wrote:
>
>>Hi There,
>>
>>I have a dataset that is all notes added for a client during their
>>relationship with us and I'd like to use SAS to print them out a page
>>per note in chronological order. I cant find a way of doing it the way
>>I want to though! It needs to be in PDF format and an example of how
>>I'd like it to look is:
>>
>>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------
>>Client Name: Joe Bloggs
>>ID: 93372
>>Creation Date: 08/08/2007 11:46:22
>>Author: Jane Doe
>>Type: Phone Contact
>>Description: File Transferred
>>
>>Note content in here. Note content in here. Note content in here. Note
>>content in here. Note content in here. Note content in here. Note
>>content in here. Note content in here. Note content in here.
>>
>>Note content in here.Note content in here.Note content in here.Note
>>content in here.Note content in here.Note content in here.Note content
>>in here.Note content in here.
>>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------
>>
>>Ideally I'd like the headings (client name, id, creation date etc)
>>lined up but I'd settle for not lined up. The note itself is a
>>character field $4000.
>>
>>Can someone please help? I can use data _null_ and put to create a
>>text file but it really needs to be in PDF and I cant get anyting but
>>Proc Report to work and that puts everything in columns when I want it
>>in rows.
>>
>>Many thanks in advance
>>Steve
>
>It looks like there are newlines embedded in the NOTE variable. Is that
so?
>
>I used to occasionally use PROC FORMS for tasks like this. But that was
back
>in pre-ODS times. I don't know if PROC FORMS supports ODS. Aside: Can
anyone
>locate Version 9 documentation for PROC FORMS?
>
>What I would probably due in this situation is use DDE to write the
>information into an MS Word document, then convert that to PDF.