About the Availability of Actions

Your capabilities (for example, if you do not have export capabilities, the export options in the explorer’s File menu are not available to you).

Your location in SAS Visual Analytics. For example, some application features are available only if you are designing a report.

The currently selected object (for example, list tables do not have ranges).

Whether data has been defined (for example, you must add a data source before you can define filters).

Whether a data item is already in use (for example, you cannot change a data item’s role while it is incorporated in a bar chart as a category).