Concepts: Template Stores and the TEMPLATE Procedure

The Contents of Definitions (Templates) that SAS Supplies

SAS provides definitions (templates) for these items:

• tables

• styles

• tagsets

To view the contents of a definition (template), you can use the SAS windowing environment, the SAS window command odstemplates , or the TEMPLATE procedure.

• SAS Windowing Environment

  1. From the SAS Explorer, select

     View – Results

  2. In the Results window, select the Results folder. Right click to open the Templates window.

  3. To view the definitions (templates) that SAS supplies, click on the plus sign that is next to the SASHELP.TMPLMST item store.

  4. Click on the plus sign that is next to an icon to view the contents of that template store or directory in a template store. If there is no plus sign next to the icon, double click the icon to view the contents of that directory.

     
     Display 8.1: Definitions (Templates) that SAS Supplies

• SAS Windowing Command

  1. To view the Templates window, submit the following command in the command bar:

      odstemplates 

     The following display shows the Templates window that contains the item stores Sasuser.Templat and Sashelp.Tmplmst .

  2. When you double-click an item store, such as Sashelp.Tmplmst , that item store expands to list the directories where ODS templates are stored. The templates that SAS provides are in the item store Sashelp.Tmplmst.

     
     Display 8.2: Odstemplates Command

• TEMPLATE Procedure

  The SOURCE statement writes the source code for the specified definition to the SAS log. For example, if you want to view the source for all the objects in Base SAS, submit the following code.

   proc template;  source base;  run; 

  Note: For more information, see 'SOURCE Statement' on page 277