WARNING: Could not locate parent style element "Graphdata13" for element "mystyle.Graphdata13".

[DinoPut]

Hi

I have been trying to generate a 2-panel plot with 18 lines. I would like to have a separate color for each of the lines and defined accordingly in the SAS Template. But I have been getting the following warning in the log and I was hoping that I could get some help on this:

WARNING: Could not locate parent style element "Graphdata13" for element "mystyle.Graphdata13".
WARNING: Could not locate parent style element "Graphdata14" for element "mystyle.Graphdata14".
WARNING: Could not locate parent style element "Graphdata15" for element "mystyle.Graphdata15".
WARNING: Could not locate parent style element "Graphdata16" for element "mystyle.Graphdata16".
WARNING: Could not locate parent style element "Graphdata17" for element "mystyle.Graphdata17".

Template:

PROC TEMPLATE;
define style mystyle;
parent=styles.rtf;
Style Header from Header / Background = white /*FONT_WEIGHT=medium*/;
Style RowHeader from RowHeader / Background = WHITE /*FONT_WEIGHT=medium*/;

style GraphFonts from graphfonts/
'GraphDataFont' = ("Times New Roman",10pt, bold)
'GraphUnicodeFont' = ("Times New Roman",10pt, bold)
'GraphValueFont' = ("Times New Roman",8pt, bold)
'GraphLabelFont' = ("Times New Roman",6pt,bold)
'GraphFootnoteFont' = ("Times New Roman",10pt,normal)
'GraphTitleFont' = ("Times New Roman",10pt,bold)
'GraphAnnoFont' = ("Times New Roman",10pt, bold);

CLASS GraphValueText /COLOR=BLACK;
CLASS GraphDataText /COLOR=BLACK;
CLASS GraphBorderLines/COLOR=BLACK;
CLASS GraphAxisLines/ContrastColor=BLACK;
CLASS GraphLabelText/COLOR=BLACK;
CLASS GraphDataDefault/COLOR=BLACK ContrastColor=BLACK;

CLASS GraphAnnoLine/ContrastColor=BLACK;
CLASS GraphAnnoText/COLOR=BLACK;
CLASS GraphConnectLine/ContrastColor=BLACK;

%do i =1 %to &max;
style Graphdata&i from Graphdata&i/ contrastcolor=&&color&i linestyle=&&line&i Markersymbol="&&symbol&i";
%end;
style GraphError /LineThickness = 1px;

class graphwalls /
frameborder=on
linestyle=1
linethickness=1px
backgroundcolor=GraphColors("gwalls")
contrastcolor= black;

class graphaxislines /
linestyle=1
linethickness=1px
contrastcolor=black;

class table/outputwidth=100%;
replace Body from Document / textalign =center
topmargin = 0.05 in
bottommargin = 0.05 in
rightmargin = 0.05 in
leftmargin = 0.05 in;
replace fonts /
'TitleFont' = ("Times New Roman",10pt,BOLD)
'TitleFont2' = ("Times New Roman",10pt,normal)
'StrongFont' = ("Times New Roman",10pt,BOLD)
'EmphasisFont' = ("Times New Roman",10pt,BOLD)
'FixedEmphasisFont' = ("Times New Roman",10pt,BOLD)
'FixedStrongFont' = ("Times New Roman",10pt,BOLD)
'FixedHeadingFont' = ("Times New Roman",10pt,BOLD)
'BatchFixedFont' = ("Times New Roman, Times New Roman",10pt)
'FixedFont' = ("Times New Roman",10pt)
'headingEmphasisFont' = ("Times New Roman",10pt,BOLD)
'headingFont' = ("Times New Roman",10pt,BOLD)
'docFont' = ("Times New Roman",10pt);
class Table/
bordercollapse = separate
backgroundcolor = colors('tablebg')
BACKGROUND=_UNDEF_
textalign =center
rules = all
frame =BOX
borderspacing =1
bordercolor = colors('tableborder')
borderwidth =1
bordertopwidth=1
bordertopcolor=black
borderbottomwidth=1
borderbottomcolor=black ;

class Data /
color = colors('datafg')
backgroundcolor = colors('databg')
textalign =center ;

Style Systemfooter from Systemfooter /
background=white
borderbottomcolor=white
bordertopcolor=black
borderbottomwidth=2
background=_undef_
bordertopwidth=0
textalign = center
font =fonts('TitleFont2') ;
END;
run;

Thanks in advance

[Cynthia_sas]

Hi:
If you look in the styles.default template, you'll see that the GraphData elements only go from 1-12. So the minute you tried to inherit with a "from GraphData13" or "from GraphData14" you would start to encounter problems.

I am assuming that you have this in a macro program definition. My recommendation would be to use a CLASS statement (which does not need a FROM) instead of your current loop, which uses STYLE and FROM.

Cynthia

[DinoPut]

Thank you, Cynthia! That worked!