Base path for DRAWIMAGE in Template Language

[PGStats]

The image-file-spec argument in the DRAWIMAGE statement of the template language can be a relative local file path. But relative to what? I'm using SAS 9.3 TS1M0 on XP_PRO.

[Jay54]

The file name is relative to your start folder (shown in the status line at the bottom of the SAS window).  If you start SAS in C:\Users\<userid>, and provide a file name without a path or url, then the image will be assumed to be in this folder.  In the example below, the file "saslogo.png" is expected to be in C:\Users\<userid>.  See attached output.

proc template;
  define statgraph image;
    begingraph / designwidth=400px designheight=300px;
      entrytitle "Regression Fit Plot"; 
        layout overlay; 
           modelband "myclm";
           scatterplot x=height y=weight / primary=true;
           regressionplot x=height y=weight / alpha=.01 clm="myclm"; 
           drawimage "saslogo.png" / x=95 y=5
               xspace=wallpercent yspace=wallpercent 
               anchor=bottomright; 
      endlayout; 
    endgraph;
  end;
run;

ods graphics / reset imagename="drawimage";
proc sgrender data=sashelp.class template=image; 
run;

 

[PGStats]

Thank you Sanjay, you confirm what I thought should happen. It works fine when supplied a full pathname but doesn’t with relative pathnames. The SAS program logged below produces two figures, the first one with no logo, the second one, using a full path, displays my logo :

1 x "cd C:\Documents and Settings\gagnonp\My Documents"

1 ! ;

2

3 proc template;

NOTE: Writing HTML Body file: sashtml.htm

4 define statgraph imageRelative;

5 begingraph / designwidth=400px designheight=300px;

6 entrytitle "Regression Fit Plot";

7 layout overlay;

8 modelband "myclm";

9 scatterplot x=height y=weight / primary=true;

10 regressionplot x=height y=weight / alpha=.01 clm="myclm";

11 drawimage "Environnement Canada Fr En.png" / x=95 y=5

12 xspace=wallpercent yspace=wallpercent

13 anchor=bottomright;

14 endlayout;

15 endgraph;

16 end;

NOTE: Overwriting existing template/link: imageRelative

NOTE: STATGRAPH 'imageRelative' has been saved to: SASUSER.TEMPLAT

17 define statgraph imageFull;

18 begingraph / designwidth=400px designheight=300px;

19 entrytitle "Regression Fit Plot";

20 layout overlay;

21 modelband "myclm";

22 scatterplot x=height y=weight / primary=true;

23 regressionplot x=height y=weight / alpha=.01 clm="myclm";

24 drawimage "C:\Documents and Settings\gagnonp\My

24 ! Documents\Environnement Canada Fr En.png" /

25 x=95 y=5

26 xspace=wallpercent yspace=wallpercent

27 anchor=bottomright;

28 endlayout;

29 endgraph;

30 end;

NOTE: Overwriting existing template/link: imageFull

NOTE: STATGRAPH 'imageFull' has been saved to: SASUSER.TEMPLAT

31 run;

NOTE: PROCEDURE TEMPLATE used (Total process time):

real time 1.65 seconds

cpu time 0.57 seconds

32

33 ods graphics / reset imagename="drawRelative";

34 proc sgrender data=sashelp.class template=imageRelative;

35 run;

WARNING: IMAGE=Environnement Canada Fr En.png n'est pas valide. Fichier introuvable.

WARNING: IMAGE=Environnement Canada Fr En.png n'est pas valide.

NOTE: There were 19 observations read from the data set SASHELP.CLASS.

NOTE: PROCEDURE SGRENDER used (Total process time):

real time 1.62 seconds

cpu time 0.36 seconds

36 ods graphics / reset imagename="drawFull";

37 proc sgrender data=sashelp.class template=imageFull;

38 run;

NOTE: There were 19 observations read from the data set SASHELP.CLASS.

NOTE: PROCEDURE SGRENDER used (Total process time):

real time 0.46 seconds

cpu time 0.06 seconds

[Jay54 · Accepted solution]

I believe you may have found a bug.  The GTL graph rendering is done using Java and we may not have told it the correct current work directory.  I have opened a defect to review this.  It seems "relative" is working off of the location provided in %USERPROFILE%.  The work around for you would be to put the image file there or use the fully qualified path.