Collapse Output Heading in Syntax?

[PRogman]

Is it possible in syntax to collapse/hide output headings?
I know it is possible to stop output results from reaching the output window with SET or OMS, but I want to keep all background work in the output file, collect data and present it nicely. The MODIFY OUTPUT extension let me work on tables text graphs etc, but cannot collapse branches. It would in some instances be very convenient to just hide a command totally, but keeping it for future reference.

Best wishes,
PR

[Jon K Peck]

MODIFY OUTPUT can hide titles, header, and other object types.  Here's an example

SPSSINC MODIFY OUTPUT HEADINGS TITLES
/IF SUBTYPE="'Descriptive Statistics'"
PROCESS=ALL
/VISIBILITY VISIBLE=FALSE.


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Is it possible in syntax to collapse/hide output headings?
I know it is possible to stop output results from reaching the output window
with SET or OMS, but I want to keep all background work in the output file,
collect data and present it nicely. The MODIFY OUTPUT extension let me work
on tables text graphs etc, but cannot collapse branches. It would in some
instances be very convenient to just hide a command totally, but keeping it
for future reference.

Best wishes,
PR








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[David Marso]

You can invoke a script using the SCRIPT command.
Point it to this (in a file).  
Or look up the equivalent python functions?
Option Explicit
Sub Main
        Dim i As  Long
        With objSpssApp.GetDesignatedOutputDoc.Items
                For i=.Count-1 To 0 Step -1
                        With .GetItem(i)
                                If .SPSSType = 2 And .Level=1 Then
                                        .Expanded=False
                                        Exit For
                                End If
                        End With
                Next
        End With
End Sub

PRogman wrote

Is it possible in syntax to collapse/hide output headings?
I know it is possible to stop output results from reaching the output window with SET or OMS, but I want to keep all background work in the output file, collect data and present it nicely. The MODIFY OUTPUT extension let me work on tables text graphs etc, but cannot collapse branches. It would in some instances be very convenient to just hide a command totally, but keeping it for future reference.

Best wishes,
PR

[PRogman]

Thank you, David, this is what I was looking for.
It comes really handy when I return the output file which sometimes contains commands like

EXAMINE VARIABLES=Alfa Bravo Charlie
                         BY Delta
  /PLOT BOXPLOT STEMLEAF HISTOGRAM NPPLOT
  /COMPARE GROUPS
  /STATISTICS DESCRIPTIVES
  /CINTERVAL 95
  /MISSING LISTWISE
  /NOTOTAL.

which generates looong lists. I have not been able to hide it without lots of lines and MODIFY OUTPUTs.
I will perhaps try to do it in Python, OTOH, scripts may work with installations of non-power-users with older versions without default python installed.

Great!
/PR