ODS Graphics Template Modification

The %GrTitle macro does the following:

You can use OPTIONS=DISPLAY to display the ENTRYTITLE and NOTES statements:

%grtitle(path=Stat.Logistic.Graphics.AnomPlot, options=display)

In the analysis-of-means plot, the original template has two ENTRYTITLE statements:

entrytitle _TITLE;
entrytitle textattrs=GRAPHVALUETEXT _CLSTR;

Both statements rely on dynamic variables that PROC LOGISTIC sets and sends to the template. The macro modifies the template by replacing those two statements with the following:

mvar Graphics_AnomPlot Graphics_AnomPlot2;
if (EXISTS(GRAPHICS_ANOMPLOT))
   entrytitle GRAPHICS_ANOMPLOT;
else
   entrytitle _TITLE;
endif;
if (EXISTS(GRAPHICS_ANOMPLOT2))
   entrytitle GRAPHICS_ANOMPLOT2;
else
   entrytitle textattrs=GRAPHVALUETEXT _CLSTR;
endif;

The titles can come from either the new macro variables or the old dynamic variables. If a macro variable exists, then ODS uses the title that you specified in that macro variable. If a macro variable has a null value (%LET Graphics_AnomPlot = ;), that title is suppressed. Otherwise, ODS uses the original title. There are no ampersands in the modified template. ODS substitutes the macro variable values at the time that PROC LOGISTIC runs, not at the time that the macro runs PROC TEMPLATE.

The following step modifies another PROC LOGISTIC template:

%grtitle(path=Stat.Logistic.Graphics.PhatPanel, options=display)

The macro produces the following messages in the SAS log:

   Stat.Logistic.Graphics.PhatPanel
      notes "Predicted Probability Plots";

      Logistic_PhatPanel
      entrytitle _TITLE;

The specified template is not a link, so one template name is displayed. The macro displays the NOTES statement, which provides information about the template’s purpose. You can specify the macro variable Logistic_PhatPanel to modify the title.

The original template comes from one of the item stores in your ODS path (by default, either Sasuser.Templat or Sashelp.Tmplmst). The modified template is saved in the item store Work.Templat. You can delete that item store as follows:

%grtitle(options=delete)

You can modify multiple templates at once. The following three steps modify all templates, all STAT templates, and all PROC LOGISTIC templates, respectively. Additional templates are modified when there are links. Common prefixes for additional templates include: Common, Stat.Bayes, Stat.Graphics, and Stat.Lmr.

%grtitle;
%grtitle(path=stat)
%grtitle(path=stat.logistic)

By default, each macro call begins by deleting all previously modified templates. The following steps modify both the PROC REG and the PROC GLM templates:

%grtitle(path=stat.reg)
%grtitle(path=stat.glm, options=nodelete)

The first step deletes all the templates in Work.Templat and then modifies the PROC REG templates. The second step additionally modifies PROC GLM templates but without deleting the previously modified templates that are in Work.Templat.

The following step lists all the modified templates that are in the Work library:

proc template;
   list / store=work.templat;
quit;

The results are displayed in Output 25.8.3. The macro modified templates from Common.Zreg, Stat.GLM, Stat.Graphics, and Stat.Reg.