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.