| Administering Role-Based Settings |
Because
SAS Enterprise Guide and the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office are used by a
wide variety of users and groups within an organization, administrators must
be able to control the resources and actions that users can access. For example,
an organization might want to allow some users to run reports, but not to
modify them. The organization might want to prevent SAS Enterprise Guide users
from saving files to their local hard drives. Or the organization might want
to display only needed SAS Enterprise Guide tasks, project settings, tools,
and help, and hide the rest. SAS Enterprise Guide and the SAS Add-In for Microsoft
Office enable you to control the actions and tasks that are available to users
through roles and role-based settings.
A role manages
the availability of application features, called capabilities. For SAS Enterprise
Guide and the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office, the capabilities include how
files are opened and saved, the options settings that are visible, and which
project settings might be modified. Members are assigned to the roles, based
on their activities and responsibilities in your organization. SAS Enterprise
Guide tasks are also considered to be capabilities, so you can present a variety
of views of the resources and actions that are available to users through
their role membership.
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