My Home page looks different from your Home page! It’s possible, in SAS Visual Investigator 10.2!
In SAS Visual Investigator 10.2, you can create a role-based Home page, enabling different groups of users to view different versions of the Home page. You can even configure the controls on the page, so that there is no blank space for users that aren't allowed to view some of the controls.
In configuring the Home page, as you add controls to the page, you can use the Group restrictions selector in the properties of each control to select which group(s) of users will see the control as a displayed component. You can even select group(s) of users for a Group Box control, so that any components in the Group Box will display only to the selected group(s).
This features enables the configuration of Home pages, such that a single configured Home page can be consistent with a variety of user roles.
This example demonstrates altering the appearance of the home page and configuring the home page to enable different users to see different controls on the page.
To begin, access the VI Administration interface and select Pages-->Homepage.
You might first like to add branding to the home page for all users by adding a Branding Control into a Collapsible Group Box at the top of the page.
Drag and drop the Collapsible Group Box Layout to the top of the homepage, setting your preferred values for the control’s properties. Notice that the Group restrictions selector appears, but no group should be selected for this control, since you want the branding to display for all users. This group box will enable the users to collapse the box containing the branding image if they wish to have more screen real estate available.
Now drag the Branding Control into the Group Box and add your branding image and scaling value.
Now you will modify the home page so that the Alert Summary and the Personal Metrics controls will only be visible to certain users.
Drag a Cascading layout to the top of the page, above the branding group box.
Drag all page controls into the Cascading layout, including the branding group box containing your branding image, so that your page appears similar to below:
Select the Alert Summary control and select the groups that should see the Alert Summary:
Select the Personal Metrics control and select the groups that should see the Personal Metrics:
Save and close the Home page. To see the result of your work, access the VI application as a member of each group and a user that is a member of neither group. Users who are members of neither group in your list of selected groups will see this version of the page:
Any user who is a member of a group in your list of selected groups will see this version of the page:
