Clinovo-SAS-webinarce-sophisticated-tables by Sophie McCallum

An IOM Application for Effortlessly Producing any Complex Table You Can Ever Mockup in Microsoft Word Wednesday, May 23rd 2012 Codeveloper/Collaborator: Gulan Zhang (Abbott Vascular) IOM = Integrated Object Model

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PhD in Theoretical Physics 5-Year SAS programming exp 2 FDA Panel Support Code fluently in SAS, perl, c, c#, VBA/VBS, sh, etc http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jian-dai/1a/1b/b05 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/sas_academy/ http://blog.clinovo.com/

Agenda  Traditional TLG Workflow / What to Improve  Separation of Presentation and Content / Idea of How to Improve

 SAS IOM in MS Word / Technologies for How to Improve  Improved TLG Workflow  Demo  Compare with Other Application Solutions  Conclusion TLG = Table, Listing, Graph

TLG Programming Workflow

TLG = Table, Listing, Graph

Table Mockup

Title/Footnote

Table Macro

TLF Program

Output Table

Table Mockup

Three Parts in the Workflow that cries for Improvement

Title/Footnote

  

Hard to Create Hard to Maintain Hard to Synchronize

Table Macro

TLF Program

  

Need to Read Title/Footnote Need to Format Row/Column Header Need to call DS2WORD Macro

  

Hard to Develop Hard to Debug Hard to Update

Output Table

Table Mockup

Three Parts of Dev Time That Can Be Saved

Title/Footnote

  

Creation Maintenance Synchronization

Table Macro

TLF Program



Read Title/Footnote Spreadsheet



Development



Formatting Row/Column Header



Debugging



Invoke DS2WORD Macro



Updating Output Table

SEPARATION OF PRESENTATION AND CONTENT

A programmer’s job is to change “xxx”s to numbers

How to go straight?

SAS Integration Technologies in MS Word

Three Ingredients  SAS as a Service = SAS Integrated Technologies 



IOM: Use SAS through an Object Model / Application Programming Interface (API) Every element of SAS environment becomes an Object: Workspace, LanguageService, Log, Lst, et cetera

 Hands-on Visual Basic for Application (VBA) in MS Office Suite  Coordinates in a Table in a MS Word DOC

Improved TLG Workflow

TLG = Table, Listing, Graph

Before click “Fill One Cell” Button

After click “Fill One Cell” Button

Use MS Macro to Call SAS

Use SAS to compute #â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

Use MS Macro to Fill Cells

DEMO

DEMO  Use VBA (Alt-F11 to bring up the VB Editor)  Use VBA to Access MS Word Table  Example with SASHELP.CLASS  Example from a real world study

COMPARISON

Cost

Easy2Learn

Community

SCL (SAS Component Language)

Free

Small

SAS/IntrNet

$$$

Small

Add-in for MS Office

$$$

Yes

Small

IOM

Free

Yes

Big

Conclusion  Shorten the TLF creation process  No need for: - title/footnote metadata file

- table output macros - table-formatting in the programs => what you see in the mockup table is basically what you get in your product table => the numbers are substituted

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

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