PROC TEMPLATE Made Easy: A Guide for SAS Users

✍ Scribed by Kevin D. Smith

• Publisher: SAS Institute
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 260
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This straightforward guide to PROC TEMPLATE shows you how to build your own custom styles and tables in SAS. You'll learn how to create new styles to match your organization's standards or simply to increase your report's aesthetic potential build custom tables with complex structures and traffic lighting to make them easier to read and interpret manage your templates and share them with other SAS users Written for all levels of users, PROC TEMPLATE Made Easy guides you through the process of writing templates. Beginners will benefit from learning how to do so from the ground up. Intermediate and advanced users will learn the more complex features of PROC TEMPLATE as well as how to use styles in the Base SAS reporting procedures. This book explains how PROC TEMPLATE saves templates and teaches you how to create shareable template stores, allowing you to customize your working environment. The visual appendixes of all style attributes and graph colors serve as an essential reference for anyone using PROC TEMPLATE. PROC TEMPLATE allows you to take advantage of all that the Output Delivery System has to offer, and PROC TEMPLATE Made Easy teaches you how. This book is part of the SAS Press program.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
About This Book
Purpose
Is This Book for You?
Prerequisites
Scope of This Book
What is Not Covered in This Book
Examples in This Book
Typographical Conventions Used in This Book
Software Used to Develop This Book's Content
Data and Programs Used in This Book
Output and Graphics Used in This Book
Author Page
Example Code and Data
Additional Resources
Keep in Touch
About The Author
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction
The Template Structure
Types of Templates
Data-Dependent Templates
Data-Independent Templates
Conclusion
Chapter 2: Using Styles in Your Reports
Using Pre-Defined Styles
Where Are These Styles Coming from?
Defining a New Style
Cascading Style Sheets and the SAS Enterprise Guide Style Manager
PROC TEMPLATE Styles
The STYLE and CLASS Statements
Style Definition Inheritance
Style Attribute References
Style Overrides and Conditional Formatting
Dynamic Style Attribute Values
SYMGET(‘macro-variable’) and RESOLVE(‘&macro-variable’)
SAS-format
RESOLVE(‘%macro’)
EXPRESSION(‘expr’)
Reporting Procedure Styles
PROC PRINT Styles
PROC REPORT Styles
PROC TABULATE Styles
Inline Formatting
Putting It All Together
Chapter 3: Creating and Customizing Table Templates
Defining a Table
Defining Headers and Footers
Common Table Header and Footer Attributes
Defining Columns
Common Table Column Attributes
Using Computed Column Values As Column Data
Table Attributes
Style Overrides and Traffic Lighting
The CELLSTYLE AS Statement
Using Table Templates within DATA NULL
Using Variables in Table Templates
Using Generic Columns
DATA Step Tricks
Inheritance
Modifying SAS Procedure Tables
The PROC FREQ Crosstabulation Table
Defining a CrossTabs Template
Putting It All Together
Chapter 4: Template Management
Template Stores and the ODS Path
PROC TEMPLATE Statements
The DELETE Statement
The LINK Statement
The LIST Statement
The PATH Statement
The SOURCE Statement
Appendix A: Compatibility with Previous Versions of SAS
Running PROC TEMPLATE Examples
Styles
Using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Changes to Style Attribute Names
Defining Multiple Style Elements Simultaneously
Inheritance
The CLASS Statement
Appendix B: Style Attributes
HTML-specific Style Attributes
Graph-specific Style Attributes
Appendic C: Color Names Defined by SAS/GRAPH
Introduction
Basic Hues
Blacks
Blues
Browns
Grays
Greens
Olives
Oranges
Pinks
Purples
Reds
Violets
Whites
Yellows
Ad
Index