Arjen,

You can do this easily with PROC REPORT. All you need to do is set up a format to assign colors to ranges and then use the STYLE option on PROC REPORT to assign the foreground or background color of a cell to that color. See my paper "ODS for Print, Report, and Tabulate" for an example of this technique (http://www2.sas.com/proceedings/sugi26/p003-26.pdf).

With a little more creativity, you can use a compute statement to change the color of the entire row. There's an example of shading alternate rows in that paper that could probably be adapted to meet your needs.

-- Lauren Haworth

Arjen Raateland wrote:

> I built a SAS application which among other things produces a few > reports by the use of PROC REPORT. Currently the user prints the reports > direct from the PROC REPORT window. > Certain lines in the printed report are then highlighted by the user > with a felt marker (textliner) based on the value of one particular > variable (viz. the abundance of blue-green algae). > > Would it be possible to do the highlighting in the application, so the > user doesn't have to go through the list with a feltpen? > > I was thinking of making the background of the line grey - or some fancy > color - but in the output window that's not likely to be possible. > > However, I could make the output go to a PDF or an RTF file instead and > perhaps use a template. I have no experience with templates, especially > not with modifying them. > > The ultimate in fancy reporting would have all report lines color-coded > in the same way as our maps, in which the dots are color-coded based on > the abundance variable. > See: http://www.vyh.fi/ajankoht/tiedote/leva/leva02/ka020731.htm > (the legend and other texts are in Finnish & Swedish only .... however, > underlying values for abundance are numerical .X, 0, 1, 2, 3; those GIF > maps which show observed values are produced by the application and the > relevant HTML files are also produced by the application based on some > 'templates') > > Thanks for any clues about if this can be done and hints as to how it > could be done. > -- > Arjen Raateland > Finnish Environment Institute SYKE > Research Dept. > SAS Support > phone +358 9 4030 0350