topic Re: Change the default location for the Files folder under SASApp server in Enterprise Guide 7.15 in New SAS User

Change the default location for the Files folder under SASApp server in Enterprise Guide 7.15

sudipghosh — Tue, 09 Apr 2019 05:26:09 GMT

I have opened and SAS Enterprise guide and connected to the server.

Now I want the default location for the Files folder under SASApp server to be changed

I am using Enterprise Guide 7.15.

kindly advise.

Thanks in advance.

Sudip Ghosh

Re: Change the default location for the Files folder under SASApp server in Enterprise Guide 7.15

Kurt_Bremser — Tue, 09 Apr 2019 05:59:15 GMT

The root path for the Files navigation pane in EG is defined in the metadata of the workspace server. A change has to be done there by the SAS administrator.

The SAS Managament Console provides three options for that

the user's home directory (which is the default)
the system root
a fixed path (would be the same for all users, so it is rarely used)

What path would you like to have set in place of the default?

Re: Change the default location for the Files folder under SASApp server in Enterprise Guide 7.15

sudipghosh — Tue, 09 Apr 2019 06:18:31 GMT

Thanks @Kurt_Bremser for your response. In Server (F Drive) we have multiple folder for each groups, under each group we have defined folders for different users. Suppose the user is X and user X belongs to Sales group. So for User X we want default folder to be "F:\Sales\X"

Re: Change the default location for the Files folder under SASApp server in Enterprise Guide 7.15

Kurt_Bremser — Tue, 09 Apr 2019 06:49:49 GMT

The username can be retrieved in Windows with %username%, but there is no environment variable for "group" that can be used to dynamically set the navigation path.

You will have to fiddle around with creating an environment variable for the group while a user is "switched to" (done by the Object Spawner) that you can use in the metadata.

This environment variable can be set in the WorkspaceServer_usermods.bat file and used in the Workspace Server definition in SAS metadata. I just verified that by testing it on UNIX:

1. create environment variable in WorkspaceServer_usermods.sh:

export HOMEPATH=/somepath

2. set the navigation root in SAS metadata to

$HOMEPATH/$USER

and I ended up in /somepath/myusername when I opened the workspace server in EG.