SUMMARY Subcommand (SET command)

The SUMMARY subcommand adds comments to pivot tables.

  • Comment text is displayed in a tooltip when you hover over a table in the Viewer.
  • Screen readers read the comment text when the table has focus.
  • The tooltip in the Viewer displays only the first 200 characters of the comment, but screen readers read the entire text.
  • When you export output to HTML or a web report, the comment text is used as alt text.

The keyword is followed by an equals sign and the keyword NONE or a quoted value. The default option is NONE. You can also include special variables to insert date, time, and other values.

)DATE
Current date in the form dd-mmm-yyyy.
)ADATE
Current date in the form mm/dd/yyyy.
)SDATE
Current date in the form yyyy/mm/dd.
)EDATE
Current date in the form dd.mm.yyyy.
)TIME
Current 12-hour clock time in the form hh:mm:ss.
)ETIME
Current 24-hour clock time in the form hh:mm:ss.
)TITLE
The text of the outline label for the table.
)PROCEDURE
The name of the procedure that created the table.
)DATASET
The name of the dataset used to create the table.
\n
Inserts a line break.