Administering Group and Role Membership

To administer group and role membership, use the User Manager plug-in in SAS Management Console.

Adding a User to a Group or Role

In most cases, the best way to place a user in a role is to add the user to a group that belongs to the role. You can also add users directly to groups or roles.

To place a user in one of the predefined roles, you can add the user to one of the predefined groups. For example, to add a user to the Decision Manager Common: Administration role, add the user to the Decision Manager Common Administrators group.

For more information, see SAS Management Console: Guide to Users and Permissions at http://support.sas.com/documentation/onlinedoc/intellplatform/index.html.

Creating New Groups and Roles

The predefined groups and roles might be sufficient for many sites. Other sites might need to make application features available to users on either a broader or more granular basis than the predefined groups or roles allow.

You can use combinations of capabilities to create a new role. However, you can use only the capabilities that already appear in User Manager. You cannot create new capabilities.

For detailed information about roles and how to create them, see SAS Management Console: Guide to Users and Permissions at http://support.sas.com/documentation/onlinedoc/intellplatform/index.html.

Modifying Roles

The User Manager plug-in in SAS Management Console enables you to modify roles by selecting or deselecting different capabilities.

CAUTION:

No automated method can revert a role to its original set of capabilities.

Instead of adjusting the capabilities of a predefined role, consider creating a new role. This advice is especially important if you need to make major changes.

If you modify a role, then follow these best practices:

Do not rename the predefined roles. Renaming the predefined roles makes it difficult for SAS Technical Support to help you resolve problems.
Back up the metadata server before modifying roles, and keep a record of the changes that you make.

When modifying a role, you can use only the capabilities that already appear in User Manager. You cannot create new capabilities.

For more information about roles and how to modify them, see SAS Management Console: Guide to Users and Permissions at http://support.sas.com/documentation/onlinedoc/intellplatform/index.html.