Hi:
There are only a few ways to create a new style template. By default, if you do not use an ODS PATH statement, SAS will try to write your changed style template to the SASUSER library. In some installations, the SASUSER library might go away after every session. This means that your template might get created and might go away. Or, you might not have write access to your SASUSER library or you might be using a server copy of SAS and you do not have write access to a location on the server to make the template permanent.
Other reasons for having this problem are silly things like you create a style called: MYSTYLE, but when you go to use it, you specify STYLE=MSYTYLE (misspelled). The code below illustrates the misspelling possibility. Or, you could be using one of the SAS software components that has its own item store for style templates and you need to use an ODS PATH statement to get your item store in the list. Or, you are using Web Report Studio and you need to get your version of the style loaded into the XML that "runs" Web Report Studio. There are too many possibilities for how things can go wrong to list them all here.
I'd recommend that you work with Tech Support if you have SAS on a server, you are using EG with SAS on a server or your SASUSER library is not write-able to you (or goes away after every session).
Cynthia
ods path work.tmp(update)
sasuser.templat(update)
sashelp.tmplmst(read);
proc template;
define style styles.mystyle;
parent=styles.sasweb;
class header /
color=pink
backgroundcolor=purple;
end;
run;
ods html file='c:\temp\usestyle_good.html' style=styles.mystyle;
proc print data=sashelp.class;
title 'header should be purple';
run;
ods html close;
ods html file='c:\temp\usestyle_wrong.html' style=styles.msytyle;
proc print data=sashelp.class;
title 'header will be default color because style name misspelled';
run;
ods html close;
