Administering SAS Shared Services

Administering the SAS Comment Manager Web Application

The SAS Comment Manager can be used by SAS Web applications to capture user comments. For example, in SAS Web Report Studio, the File Comments menu item enables users to add comments to reports and graphs.

By default, all users who can log on to an application that uses the SAS Comment Manager can view and create comments. As an administrator, you might also want to edit and delete comments. Editing and deleting comments are considered administrative functions. To edit and delete comments, you must configure and enable a special administrative role in SAS metadata.

To enable the editing and deletion of comments, follow these steps:

Enable the administration of SAS Comment Manager as follows:
1. Log on to SAS Management Console as an administrator.
2. On the Plug-ins tab, navigate to Application Management Configuration Manager SAS Application Infrastructure.
3. Right-click SAS Application Infrastructure and select Properties.
4. Select the Advanced tab.
5. Add the property Policy.CommentAdministrationEnabled and set its value to true.
6. Click OK.
Configure a Comment Administrator role and assign users to the role. In SAS Management Console, right-click User Manager and create a new role that has the following properties:
- For the name, enter Comment Administrator. You must specify the name exactly as it appears here.
- For the display name, enter Comment Manager: Advanced. This name follows the naming convention for roles.
- For the description, enter Members can edit and delete comments [implicit]. Include [implicit] to signify that the role has implicit capabilities.
- For capabilities, you do not need to grant capabilities for the role. This role has implicit capabilities.
- For members, add the appropriate users. Users who are assigned to this role have the ability to edit and delete comments.
  
  Note: Due to possible conflicts that can occur when multiple users delete comments in the same comment thread, the best practice is to limit the number of users to just a few.
For instructions about creating roles, see the User Manager Help in SAS Management Console.
Restart the Web application server.

To edit or delete a comment, follow these steps:

Select the comment in the left pane of SAS Comment Manager.
To edit the comment, in the right pane, click Edit. An Edit Comment window opens in which you can make changes. When you are finished, click Save.
To delete the comment, in the right pane, click Delete. You are prompted to confirm the deletion.

Here is an example of SAS Comment Manager with a comment displayed.

SAS Comment Manager

[SAS Comment Manager]

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