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Output Delivery System: The Basics and Beyond
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Output Delivery System: The Basics and Beyond

by Lauren E. Haworth, Cynthia L. Zender, Michele M. Burlew
October 2009
Beginner content levelBeginner
636 pages
13h 35m
English
SAS Institute
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Specifying an Alternate Template as a Backup

One thing you might want to do is check for the existence of a template, such as a style template. Then, if the style template that you want is not available, you can use a backup style for your ODS job. To simply find out whether your choice of style template exists, you can use a dictionary table or a SASHELP view. A more complicated approach might involve using the EXIST and OPEN functions in a macro program to determine whether your item store exists and/or issuing an ODS PATH statement. However, we want to focus on just testing the existence of a style template and issuing a backup template name.

New with SAS 9.2 is a DICTIONARY file called DICTIONARY.STYLES, which has a parallel view called ...

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