topic Re: SAS Templates from Enterprise Guide. in SAS Enterprise Guide

SAS Templates from Enterprise Guide.

KBACHU — Mon, 11 Jul 2016 17:01:32 GMT

How to access Templates from SAS EG? I couldnt find sashelp.tmplmst when I expand the library SAShelp. I can see those when I rdp to the server and launch SAS session on the server.

Re: SAS Templates from Enterprise Guide.

paulkaefer — Mon, 11 Jul 2016 19:16:48 GMT

You should be able to see them under Tasks >> Task Templates >> Task Template Manager...

reference

Re: SAS Templates from Enterprise Guide.

KBACHU — Mon, 11 Jul 2016 19:19:07 GMT

Thank You for your response. But for some reasons, I am not able to see anything under Tasks > >Task Templates >> Task Template Manager. It is just blank.

Re: SAS Templates from Enterprise Guide.

SASKiwi — Mon, 11 Jul 2016 19:58:52 GMT

SAS templates are stored in SAS catalog entries. You can't view the contents of SAS catalogs in vanilla EG. You can add the SAS catalog veiewer custom task:

http://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/?s=catalog

But this still won't allow you to open a template entry.

This is an example of one of the restrictions of using EG...

Re: SAS Templates from Enterprise Guide.

paulkaefer — Mon, 11 Jul 2016 20:04:40 GMT

Of course to view a catalog, you can always use:

proc catalog catalog=libref.catalog-name;
    contents;
run;

Re: SAS Templates from Enterprise Guide.

SASKiwi — Mon, 11 Jul 2016 20:09:53 GMT

Agreed @paulkaefer - I meant to say view in a window as opposed to list the contents in the SAS log.

Re: SAS Templates from Enterprise Guide.

KBACHU — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 20:53:55 GMT

Hi All - I may have confused everyone. I am looking for the template files under sashelp.tmplmst. How can I access those from EG? I get the below error when I run the SAS code.

proc catalog catalog=sashelp.tmplmst;
contents;
run;

ERROR: Catalog SASHELP.TMPLMST does not exist.

Re: SAS Templates from Enterprise Guide.

SASKiwi — Thu, 14 Jul 2016 20:41:05 GMT

Sorry I just realised you are looking at ODS templates. These are held in ITEMSTORES not catalogs, so you can't use proc CATALOG.

Instead you use PROC TEMPLATE in EG like this:

http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/odsproc/67922/HTML/default/viewer.htm#n1551aai5l9e6zn0zt5zc59u37pb.htm

There is no way of viewing template item stores in a window via EG that I'm aware of but I agree it would be handy...

Re: SAS Templates from Enterprise Guide.

KBACHU — Fri, 15 Jul 2016 16:08:22 GMT

Thank You Very much SASKiwi. This works.