SAS/GRAPH Software: Reference

About SAS/GRAPH Software and the Web

You can bring SAS/GRAPH output to the Web in several ways:

You can use SAS/GRAPH Web drivers to produce simple Web pages (see Using SAS/GRAPH Web Drivers to Create Web Output). The Web drivers are the GIF, HTML, and WEBFRAME drivers. The GIF driver creates GIF format files for your graphs, and you have to create the HTML files to reference those graphs. The HTML and WEBFRAME drivers generate both the HTML and GIF files for you and fully automate the process. All you have to do is specify either the HTML or WEBFRAME device driver, and SAS/GRAPH does the rest. If you specify the WEBFRAME driver, SAS/GRAPH generates thumbnail-size graphs that you can click to see the full-size graph; no other approach to generating Web output produces these thumbnail graphs. With the HTML and WEBFRAME drivers, you can also create drill-down graphs that contain hot zones that link to other output, such as another graph or a report (see About Drill-down Graphs).
You can use the Output Delivery System (ODS) to gain more control over the Web pages that you produce (see Using the Output Delivery System (ODS) with SAS/GRAPH Software). This approach can be used with the GIF, JAVA, or ACTIVEX device drivers.
When used with the GIF driver, ODS automatically generates the HTML and GIF files needed to display the output. When used with the JAVA or ACTIVEX drivers, ODS automatically generates the HTML file needed to display the graph, which is defined within the HTML file. (As discussed in Creating Java Applets and ActiveX Controls, the JAVA and ACTIVEX drivers can only be used with the GCHART, GCONTOUR, GMAP, GPLOT, and G3D procedures.)
With ODS, you name the HTML files and have more influence over the content and presentation of that output than you have with the SAS/GRAPH Web drivers. For example, you can combine graphics and non-graphics output, and generate a Table of Contents that automatically links to each piece of output. You can also use SAS/GRAPH options with ODS to create drill-down graphs that contain hot zones that link to other output, such as another graph or a report (see About Drill-down Graphs).
You can customize Web-page design for drill-down graphs by creating your own HTML files to reference graphics output (see Customizing Web Pages for Drill-down Graphs). This approach is for users who have extensive HTML knowledge who want drill-down graphs but who also want to design the Web pages. With this approach, you use SAS/GRAPH procedure options and a SAS/GRAPH macro to create the image map needed to implement drill-down graphs. Then you create the HTML files and write the HTML tags needed to display the output, associate the image map with that output, and resolve the image-map links.
You can combine multiple graphs into a single GIF image that displays the graphs at timed intervals, thus creating an animation sequence (see Animating GIF Files (DEV=GIFANIM)). The output is a single GIF file, which you can then incorporate into a Web page. This approach is for users who have experience in animation. You can generate animated sequences of graphs to display in reports that are published on the Web.

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