topic Re: Permissions to reports in SAS Visual Analytics

Permissions to reports

ghartge — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 19:12:27 GMT

Philosophical question...

We are hopefully to the point where we can begin rolling out VA reports to the campus and wanted to ask what some of you are doing to restrict/grant access to groups of users? Our initial thoughts were to create groups and give them access to folders that contain meaningful reports. We are just looking for some feedback on what approach may work the best.

For clarity, we basically have a College Administration (Provost, President, VP's etc), Department chairs, faculty (who should only see reports of their data which we are attempting through row level security using the USERID:: functionality). From there we have directors and office staff which may have the need to see reports in one of the other folders listed.

Again, not looking specifically at any one answer just some guidance/insight and approach.

Thanks,

Gary

Re: Permissions to reports

Madelyn_SAS — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 19:30:50 GMT

I suggest Customizing Your Folder Structure in the SAS Intelligence Platform: System Administration Guide

Re: Permissions to reports

ghartge — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 19:39:23 GMT

Thank you Madelyn_SAS

That looks promising.

Gary

Re: Permissions to reports

MichelleHomes — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 22:56:03 GMT

You may be interested in watching the on-demand webinar that @angieh and I presented last year on SAS Security Design Best Practices, Validation and Monitoring

also Angie presented the topic of SAS security design best practices at SAS Global Forum 2017 and you can read her paper and supplementary information at this post, https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Global-Forum-2017/If-you-are-interested-in-SAS-Metadata-Security-read-on/gpm-p/347025#M423

Kind Regards,

Michelle