Typically, "self-service importing" is an 'on-the-fly' action taken by someone using SAS Visual Analytics Designer or Explorer. They have an Excel file, or a delimited file, or a SAS data set (local or on a server) that they want to to use in a report or an exploration. So, they use the Import Data pane of the Add Data Source dialog box to select the file to load to LASR. Often, LASR tables loaded in this way are intended for use only by the user who imported (loaded) it.
Administrators typically use the SAS Visual Analytics Administrator to load (and reload) possibly many tables for general use by many end-users. From the Administrator, only tables that are registered in metadata can be loaded. Other tasks typically done by an administrator to load tables include implementing autoload and configuring LASR libraries to support reload-on-start.
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