Chapter 4: Template Management

Template Stores and the ODS Path

PROC TEMPLATE Statements

The DELETE Statement

The LINK Statement

The LIST Statement

The PATH Statement

The SOURCE Statement

While most of this book is concerned with defining and using templates, proc template also gives you additional tools to manage your templates. These tools aren’t much different than the utilities that you would use at a DOS prompt or UNIX shell to manage your files. proc template has statements to list, display, and delete your templates. You can also link a template to another template if you simply want to have two template names that do the same thing.

Before we get into how to manage templates, you need to understand how templates are stored. This is ...

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