Managing Users’ Access to SAS Environments

About Assigning Users to Environments
Assign a User to One or More SAS Environments
Assign Multiple Users to an Environment

About Assigning Users to Environments

You can assign users to environments on either the Users tab or the Environments tab. After you assign user to an environment, the appropriate applications are added to the My Applications section of the user’s home page in SAS App Central. The applications that appear depend on users’ roles. For example:
  • Only data administrators have access to SAS vApp Data Manager.
  • Only SAS administrators have access to administrative applications such as SAS Management Console and SAS vApp Ledger.
If any of the applications require a metadata identity, the user’s ID is automatically added to SAS metadata. Within SAS metadata, users are automatically added to the appropriate groups and are given the appropriate permissions based on their role assignments in SAS App Central. For more information about metadata identities, see About Metadata Identities.
Note: The number of users that you can add to an environment depends on the service level for which your organization is licensed.

Assign a User to One or More SAS Environments

To give a user access to one or more SAS environments:
  1. On the Users tab, click the user’s email address.
  2. In the Environments section of the user’s information page, click Edit.
  3. In the Edit Environments window, select or clear the appropriate check boxes to specify environments for the user. To assign the user to all environments, select the check box in the first row. Then click OK.

Assign Multiple Users to an Environment

Instead of assigning users to environments individually, you can use the Environments tab to assign multiple users to a particular environment.
To assign multiple users:
  1. On the Environments tab, click the environment name.
  2. In the Users section of the environment detail page, click Edit.
  3. In the Edit Users window, select or clear the appropriate check boxes to specify which users can access the environment. (To give access to all users, select the check box in the first row.) Then click OK.
    When you remove access for a user, the user’s SAS metadata identity is deleted from the environment if applicable. The user’s personal folder in SAS metadata is retained so that administrators can access it. If the user is re-added while the previous folder still exists, a new personal folder is created with (1) appended to the user name.
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