Prerequisites for Creating Project Control Groups

After you have planned the projects and models that you want to have in your project control group, you must create a project control table that contains the segment identifiers, projects, and models. The project control table can then be used by the Create Projects from a Control Table feature to create a hierarchy of your project control group.

Project control groups can be created only by SAS Model Manager administrators and SAS Model Manager advanced users. Ensure that users who create project control groups are assigned to the group Model Manager Administrator Users or Model Manager Advanced Users in SAS Management Console.

The project control table must contain the project names (project_name variable) to create the projects within the control group. At least one segment identifier variable (for example, segid) is required, and that segment identifier variable must also be in the performance data set. When you want to monitor the performance of project champion models, you must also associate the model name (model variable) with each project (project_name) and segment identifier (segid, or another name for the segments) in the table.

You must know the model function type before you create a project control group.

SAS Model Manager has several model function types:

To determine the model function type for your project, compare your model to the descriptions in Types of Model Functions.

If you use prototype tables to define the project input and output variables, you must do one of the following two things before you can create a project control group. Create the project input and output tables and register them in the SAS Metadata Repository using SAS Management Console. Create a libref for files on a local SAS Workspace Server or network drive. You then can view the data tables from the Data Sources category view in SAS Model Manager. See the following documents for details: