As mentioned in an earlier post, Duplicating or Copying SAS Access Control Templates, Metacoda Plug-ins 6.1 R3 also includes support for duplicating groups and roles in SAS metadata. This can be useful when you want to create a new group that is very s…
Tag: SAS Metadata Security
Duplicating or Copying SAS Users
As mentioned in my previous post, Duplicating or Copying SAS Access Control Templates, Metacoda Plug-ins 6.1 R3 also includes support for duplicating users in SAS metadata. Metacoda customers have often asked us for the ability to create a new user jus…
Duplicating or Copying SAS Access Control Templates
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…
Adding Metacoda Custom Tasks Capabilities for SAS Enterprise Guide
When you install Metacoda Custom Tasks for use in SAS® Enterprise Guide® and the SAS® Add-In for Microsoft Office you may find you don’t see the new menu items you expected in the Tools menu: There are 2 main reasons why they may be missing: 1) t…
Metacoda Plug-ins Tip: hasPermissionCondition
This post continues a series of examples on Advanced Expression-Based Filters for Metacoda Plug-ins. The recent Metacoda Plug-ins 6.1 R2 release added support for a new hasPermissionCondition boolean attribute that can be used in any filter bar on a ta…
Metacoda Plug-ins Tip: Compare Metadata Objects
One of the new additions in the recently released Metacoda Plug-ins 6.1 R2 is a Compare Metadata Objects feature. This is a something that several customers have requested, particularly for the comparison of SAS metadata security objects like ACTs, Use…
Metacoda Plug-ins Tip: User’s Group Content Admin Permissions (Identity Permissions Explorer)
This tip was prompted by a SAS Communities question which I hear from time to time, essentially “How do I find out which groups a SAS user is a Portal Group Content Administrator for?” It can be answered using the Metacoda Identity Permissi…
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…