When working with SAS® 9 metadata security, I often want to create an Access Control Template (ACT) which is very similar to an existing ACT. It may be that it will have a similar definition or permission pattern. It will usually have the same acc…
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Metacoda Plug-ins Tip: Advanced Expression-Based Filters (Protected Object Reviewer)
This post continues a series of examples on Advanced Expression-Based Filters for Metacoda Plug-ins, in this case for the Protected Object Reviewer. Here are some expressions that you may find useful to copy and paste into the filter bar of the Metacod…
Metacoda Plug-ins Tip: Advanced Expression-Based Filters (ACT Reviewer)
Many of the Metacoda Plug-ins have Filter Bars which provide a way to filter the contents displayed and show an interesting subset. Normally they do simple case-insensitive “contains” filtering on key attributes like name and description (t…
Promoting SAS Security Metadata (in Custom Repositories)
Did you know that with SAS® 9.3 you can promote (export/import) SAS metadata packages containing users, groups, roles, and ACTs, just like you can with Jobs, Tables, Libraries, Stored Processes, Reports and Information Maps? I needed to do this myself…
Migrating SAS Access Control Templates
I ran into a tricky issue today whilst migrating some Access Control Templates (ACTs) from an old SAS® 9.3 M1 deployment to a new SAS 9.3 M2 deployment. I’d seen it before and I initially forgot how I resolved it. It took a little while to r…