Managing Users' SAS App Central Roles :: SAS(R) Cloud: Account Administrator's Guide

About SAS App Central Roles

Roles determine what users can do in SAS App Central and in your organization’s SAS environments.

The following table identifies which tasks each role can perform in SAS App Central. It also lists the groups that the users in these roles are automatically added to in their assigned environments. Based on their group memberships, users are assigned to specific application-level roles in the environment.

SAS App Central Role	Allowed Tasks in SAS App Central	Automatic Group Memberships in SAS Environments
SAS user	View the Home page From the Home page, access non-administrative SAS applications	SASUSERS group As applicable, other user groups for the applications in the environment
SAS administrator	View the Home page From the Home page, access applications in the SAS environment that are used for administration (such as SAS Management Console and SAS vApp Ledger)	SAS Administrators group
data administrator	View the Home page From the Home page, access SAS vApp Data Manager to upload, download, and manage your organization’s data From the Home page, access other applications in the SAS environment that are used for data management	As applicable, data administration groups related to the applications in the environment
account administrator	View the Home page View account information Manage users and send emails to users Assign users to environments and roles Manage news Manage email templates	None

When you change a user’s role assignments in SAS App Central, the user’s corresponding group memberships are updated automatically in the environment.

Assign Users to SAS App Central Roles

By default, all users are assigned to the SAS user role in SAS App Central. To assign a user to an additional SAS App Central role (or to remove a user from a role):

On the Users tab, click the user’s email address.
In the Roles section of the user’s information page, click Edit.
In the Edit Roles window, select or clear the appropriate check boxes to specify roles for the user. To assign the user to all roles, select the check box in the first row.
Click OK.

Note: Users must be given access to one or more SAS environments before they can perform all of the tasks associated with their roles.

Aligning SAS App Central Roles with Group Memberships in the SAS Environment

Occasionally, you might need to align a user’s group memberships in SAS metadata so that they correspond to the user’s role assignments in SAS App Central. For example, if you use SAS Management Console to add a user to (or to remove a user from) a group that corresponds to a SAS App Central role, that user’s memberships is out of alignment.

When memberships are out of alignment, an Align Roles button appears on the user’s information page. Click the button, and the appropriate adjustments to SAS metadata are made automatically.

If the Align Roles button continues to appear after alignment, contact SAS Technical Support for assistance.

Tip

To avoid alignment issues, use SAS App Central rather than SAS Management Console to manage membership in the SAS Administrators group and other groups that correspond to SAS App Central roles. If you use SAS Management Console to manage memberships in these groups, your changes are overridden when re-alignment occurs.

Managing Users’ SAS App Central Roles

About SAS App Central Roles

Assign Users to SAS App Central Roles

Aligning SAS App Central Roles with Group Memberships in the SAS Environment

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