Administering the SAS Web Infrastructure Platform

Setting Global Properties for SAS Applications Using SAS Application Infrastructure Properties

The Configuration Manager plug-ins within SAS Management Console enable you to configure properties and specify values and settings individually for each SAS application.

By default, all SAS applications inherit their settings from SAS Application Infrastructure. Settings that are changed in the SAS Application Infrastructure Properties dialog box apply to all SAS applications that inherit their settings from SAS Application Infrastructure.

By default, most settings are locked at the SAS Application Infrastructure level, and these settings cannot be changed for individual SAS applications. When you unlock a setting at the SAS Application Infrastructure level, that setting can be overridden for individual applications. When you lock a setting at the SAS Application Infrastructure level again, all applications inherit that setting from the SAS Application Infrastructure.

The following display shows the options for User Interface, Regional Settings, and Pooling for Applicationon the Settings tab associated with SAS Application Infrastructure.

Settings Tab for SAS Application Infrastructure Properties

[Settings Tab for SAS Application Infrastructure Properties]

The locked icon [Settings Tab for SAS Application Infrastructure Properties] indicates that a field is locked. When a field has a locked icon, the value or setting for that particular field cannot be modified on the Settings tab for other SAS applications that inherit their settings from this application.

To unlock a field, follow these steps:

Click the locked icon. The icon changes to an unlocked icon .
Click OK to save the unlocked field.

In the example, the Display Quick Help Tips field has been unlocked. The unlocked icon indicates that the values for Display Quick Help Tips can be modified individually for any SAS application in Configuration Manager. The other fields remain locked. Therefore, they cannot be modified individually for any SAS application.

Note: By default, all fields on the Settings tab of the SAS Application Infrastructure Properties dialog box are locked. [cautionend]

The following display shows the effect of these locked states on the Settings tab for the Web Report Studio 4.3 Properties dialog box.

Settings Tab for SAS Web Report Studio 4.3 Properties

[Settings Tab for SAS Web Report Studio 4.3 Properties]

In this display, the unlocked icon shows that Display Quick Help Tips can be modified individually for SAS Web Report Studio. However, the other fields cannot be modified individually for SAS Web Report Studio for the following reasons:

Those fields are locked in the SAS Application Infrastructure Properties dialog box.
The locked states in the SAS Application Infrastructure dialog box apply globally to all SAS application plug-ins in Configuration Manager.

Certain applications (for example, SAS Web Report Studio) have settings that are unique to that application. Those settings are not inherited from the SAS Application Infrastructure. Therefore, those settings can be modified on the Settings tab for the Web Report Studio 4.3 Properties dialog box without any need to reset the lock for these settings at the SAS Application Infrastructure level.

The following display shows settings that are unique to SAS Web Report Studio. All of these configuration settings, which are not inherited from the SAS Application Infrastructure level, can be modified and saved individually in this dialog box.

Unique Settings for SAS Web Report Studio 4.3 Properties

[SAS Web Report Studio Properties]

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