As the goal of the readability of a folder having those SP registrations is connecting that to drop downs, your question looks to me not logical. Very nice and kind of you to mention those backgrounds. Storing old versions/releases is a quick approach also seen at Windows as ICT solutions do not offer the solution the business is needed. Versioning and release management to implement for the business applications is not documented by SAS. You could solve that very well with a levx segregation. It some more work but will fulfill all kind of normal requirements. I do not understand the objection at Sas for that. This will cleanup your folders a lot. The next one is that sp's are only metadata regisitrations. You could define more of those for each user group be in different. Still sharing the same Sas source code. By that you can tailor a folder that way it only shows what that specific group of users is needing to see. The thinking is the other way arround. One caution is there with dynamic pull downs as the associated server is not needed the one you are assigning that. Makes no sense and that must be an error by SAS.
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