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Sometimes printed documents will have a message like This Page Intentionally Left Blank. But, of course, since those pages have that message, they really aren't blank. How can we adapt this to our reporting programs and processes?

In a BI environment if, for example, a Stored Process report has no data, then the user will either see a blank page or an error message that no output was generated.
In a batch reporting environment where reports are emailed as attachments, if there is no data, the file may not be created and so the code to email the report will likely fail.

Neither of these is particularly user-friendly or desirable. So, how do we handle this? This Page Intentionally Left Blank suggests a solution. Simply produce some output. If the input data set is empty, just produce a page of output with an appropriate message. See the see also link for a discussion of a macro to do this.

Submitted By Don Henderson

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SEUGI 1983 - SEUGI 2003 Conference Proceedings Now Online

Searchand find SEUGI papers from 1983-2003

SEUGI 1983
1st European Users Conference

From 1983 through 2003, SAS users and SAS developers in Europe gathered together in conference, annually, both to share the unique ways they use SAS in their diverse work environments and to reveal new functionality. At the end of each annual conference, the SAS European Users Group International (SEUGI) collected all the individual papers (and posters) which were presented in conference proceedings. These historical proceedings contain a vast number of papers which contain methods and techniques that are not available anywhere else to the SAS User Community.

Until now, these SEUGI proceedings have not been accessible online - they were available only in bound paper volumes. After the success of placing historical SUGI proceedings online, the SAS Global Users Group Executive Board began a project in May 2012 to make historical SEUGI papers available online to the global SAS Community on sasCommunity.org.