After a version is created,
you cannot modify the life cycle definition for that version. This
means that you cannot create new milestones and tasks or remove existing
milestones or tasks. You cannot add or remove users or groups from
the
Participants list. However, the value
of the task boxes
To Be Completed By and
To
Be Approved By can be changed to specify another user
or group that is listed in the selection list for those task boxes.
These boxes can be modified only by a SAS Model Manager administrator
or by the current user that is assigned to complete or approve the
task. If a group is specified, then any member of the group can modify
the boxes.
A best practice is to
assign the value of
To Be Completed By and
To
Be Approved By to a group instead of to a user. If there
is a chance that those responsibilities could be assigned to other
users, you can make changes if you assign a group to those responsibilities
instead of assigning an individual user. Specifying a group for the
assignee and approval responsibilities is preferred because of the
flexibility you then have to add or remove users in a group.
When you specify an
individual user, only that user has the authorization to update the
task
Status box. If you specify a group,
any member of the group can update the task
Status box.
The user ID of the group member who changed the status appears in
the
Completed By or
Approved
By boxes.
Users can be added to
or deleted from a group using SAS Management Console and no changes
are needed in the life cycle template if a group is specified as an
Assignee or
Approver.
For example, if a user leaves your organization and that user was
the only assignee, then that user's SAS Model Manager user ID cannot
be deleted from the system until the champion model is retired. If
your organization hires a new analyst, you can add that analyst to
a group that has the role of
Model Manager: Life Cycle
Participant Usage and
Model Manager: Life
Cycle Assignee Usage. That user can then complete a task
and update the task
Status box without having
to create a new version and a life cycle template that includes that
individual user.
When you assign a group
to be an
Assignee or an
Approver,
all users and groups in that group have the authority to change the
task status. Therefore, ensure that the users and groups that are
defined in the group are those users and groups that you intend to
be an
Assignee or
Approver.
SAS Model Manager provides
two groups,
Model Manager Example Life Cycle Assignee
Users and
Model Manager Example Life Cycle
Approver Users. Use these groups only as an example of
how to configure a group in SAS Management Console for
Assignees and
Approver groups.
Do not include them in your template.