Understanding Item Stores, Template Stores, and Directories
A template store is
an item store which stores items that were created by the TEMPLATE
procedure. Items that SAS provides are in the item store Sashelp.Tmplmst.
Compiled templates are stored physically in the Sasuser.Templat item
store by default. However, you can store items that you create in
any template store where you have Write access.
A template store can
contain multiple levels known as directories. When you specify a template
store in the ODS PATH statement, however, you specify a two-level
name that includes a libref and the name of a template store in the
SAS library that the libref references.
When using a locale that is different from
the default locale or using a product that has templates stored outside
of Sashelp.Tmplmst, the template store for the locale and product
are automatically inserted into the ODS path when needed. Since these
extra template stores are variants or extensions to Sashelp.Tmplmst,
they are inserted just before Sashelp.Tmplmst in the current ODS path.
For example, if the Japanese locale is selected, the default ODS
path would be Sasuser.Templat(update) Sashelp.TMPL_JA(read) Sashelp.Tmplmst(read)
rather than Sasuser.Templat(update) Sashelp.Tmplmst(read).
For products or procedures
that uses a template store other than Sashelp.Tmplmst for their templates,
a similar operation occurs. The name of the template store is based
on the template path. For example, if SAS/STAT delivered a separate
template store and the Stat.GLM.Anova output object is being rendered,
the ODS path would be Sasuser.Templat(update) Sashelp.TMPLPROCGLM(read)
Sashelp.Tmplstat(read) Sashelp.Tmplmst(read).
When using both a non-default
locale and a product that uses a template store other than Sashelp.Tmplmst,
the operations are combined. If we combined the above SAS/STAT example
with the Japanese locale, the ODS path will be Sasuser.Templat(update)
Sashelp.Tmplprocglm_en(read) Sashelp.Tmplprocglm(read) Sashelp.Tmplstat_en(read)
Sashelp.Tmplstat(read) Sashelp.Tmplmst(read).