TEMPLATE Procedure: Creating a Style Template (Definition)

Example 2: Using User-Defined Attributes

PROC TEMPLATE features:

DEFINE STYLE statement:

STYLE statement with user-defined attributes:

DEFINE TABLE statement:

	CLASSLEVELS= table attribute
	DYNAMIC statement
	MVAR statement

DEFINE COLUMN statement:

	BLANK_DUPS=
	GENERIC=
	HEADER=
	STYLE=

DEFINE COLUMN statement:

	BLANK_DUPS= attribute
	CELLSTYLE-AS statement
	GENERIC= attribute

DEFINE FOOTER statement:

TEXT statement

Other ODS features:

ODS HTML statement

ODS LISTING statement

FILE statement with ODS= option

PUT statement with _ODS_ argument

Data set:

Grain_Production.

Format:

$CNTRY..

Program 1: Description

This example creates a style that is equivalent to the style that Creating a Stand-Alone Style creates. However, this style uses user-defined attributes to specify colors and fonts. This technique makes it possible to easily make changes in multiple places in the output.

Program 1: Creating the Style

proc template;
   define style newstyle2;
      style fonts /
         "cellfont"=("arial, helvetica", 4, medium roman)
         "headingfont"=("arial, helvetica", 5, bold roman)
         "titlefont"=("arial, helvetica", 6, bold italic);

      style colors /
         "light"=white
         "medium"=cxaaaaff
         "dark"=cx0000ff
         "bright"=red;

      style cellcontents /
         backgroundcolor=colors("dark")
         color=colors("light")
         font=fonts("cellfont");
      style header /
         backgroundcolor=colors("medium")
         color=colors("dark")
         font=fonts("headingfont");
      style systemtitle /
         backgroundcolor=colors("light")
         color=colors("bright")
         font=fonts("titlefont");
      style footer from systemtitle /
         fontsize=3;
      style table /  
         cellspacing=5 
         borderwidth=10;

   end;
run;

proc template;
   define table table1;

   mvar sysdate9;

   dynamic colhd;

   classlevels=on;

   define column char_var;
      generic=on;
      blank_dups=on;
      header=colhd;
      style=cellcontents;
   end;

   define column num_var;
      generic=on;
      header=colhd;
      style=cellcontents;
   end;

   define footer table_footer;
      text "Prepared on " sysdate9;
   end;

   end;
run;

ods LISTING close;

ods html body="newstyle2-body.htm"
         style=newstyle2;

   title "Leading Grain Producers";
   title2 "in 1996";

data _null_;
   set grain_production;
   where type  in ("Rice", "Corn") and year=1996;

   file print ods=(
        template="table1"

        columns=(
           char_var=country(generic=on format=$cntry.
                    dynamic=(colhd="Country"))
           char_var=type(generic dynamic=(colhd="Year"))
           num_var=kilotons(generic=on format=comma12.
                   dynamic=(colhd="Kilotons"))
           )
        );

   put _ods_;
run;

ods html close;
ods listing;

Original HTML Output

HTML Output

[HTML Output]

Program 2: Description

In the program Creating a Stand-Alone Style, to change the color scheme so that the blues are replaced by pink and red, change each occurrence of "blue" and "very light blue." In this program, because colors are defined as user-defined attributes, make the change only once.

Program 2: Changing User-Defined Attributes

To make the color scheme change, change only this section of code:

      style colors / 
         "light"=white   
         "medium"=cxaaaaff 
         "dark"=cx0000ff  
         "bright"=red;

Change the attributes as follows:

      style colors / 
         "light"=white   
         "medium"=pink  
         "dark"=red  
         "bright"=red;

Similarly, to change the font in any style element that uses cellfont, change this section of code:

         "cellfont"=("arial, helvetica", 4, medium roman)

Here is one example of how to change the code:

         "cellfont"=("courier, arial, helvetica", 4, medium roman)

This HTML output shows the results of running the same program with these changes.

HTML Output: Changing Colors and Fonts of User-Defined Attributes

HTML Output with Changed Colors and Fonts

[HTML Output with Changed Colors and Fonts]

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