If you want to remove a principal from the authorization window of a SAS Content object there are several possibilities. They are either GUI based and might involve a lot of clicks or use several command line calls which might not be available to everyone.   This post will introduce a new method of deleting the permissions on an object for a principal that appears in the SAS Content object authorization list.   Topics discussed   Basics on permission settings How to delete a principal the new way How to delete a principal the old way   Basics on permission settings   If we look at the permission screen for a SAS Folder available from the SAS Content page in SAS Environment Manager it will look like this:   Screenshot from SAS Content page in SAS Environment Manager prior to 2024.11   The line for the principal "Application Administrators" is highlighted.   These permission settings are represented by two rules. In the screenshot below, there is a filter applied to show only the rules where the principal "Application Administrators" is used. There are many more rules related to this principal which are not shown below.   By default the column "Container URI" is not shown, you can display it by clicking the "Manage Columns" tool.       The first line in the table above, where the Container URI has a value, are the permissions (Read, Add) that are inherited from this folder to its child objects. The second line in the table above, where the Object URI has a value, are the permissions (Read) that apply to the folder directly.   How to delete a principal the new way   With SAS Viya Stable 2024.11 there is a new SAS Content page available that will make this a lot easier. The same functionality is already available since LTS 2023.10 in the new SAS Visual Analytics home page.     You are then presented with the new permission window. If you want to edit the permissions, click the Edit button. The screen below will be shown.     Note the two new buttons in the top right. They have the following function:   The double +: Add direct grants for all permissions for the selected principal The minus: Delete all direct settings for the selected principal   When you click on the minus button:   All direct permissions for the principal are deleted The rules associated with the deleted direct permissions are deleted.   How to delete a principal the old way   To delete a principal from the "Edit Authorization" window you can set all the permissions to none. This has to be done for each permission that has a direct setting. This can take a while depending on how many permissions have a direct setting.     Another way of doing it, find the right rule and delete it. Using the Rules page in SAS Environment Manager you can easily search for a given folder like this:     This will then allow you to choose a folder, the corresponding Object URI will be returned. Choose the principal as well, the appropriate rule should be displayed. You can now delete this rule:     Repeat the above for the Container URI.   Summary   Deleting a principal and its direct permission settings of a SAS Content object has become very easy using the "Edit Authorization" window available with the new SAS Content page in SAS Environment Manager 2024.11. For earlier versions use the SAS Visual Analytics homepage available with LTS 2023.10.   References   To learn more about the General Authorization System, see these posts   Simple general authorization patterns   Updating SAS Viya general authorization permissions using the sas-viya command line       Find more articles from SAS Global Enablement and Learning here. ... View more

SAS Studio provides a common set of snippets. Snippets are lines of commonly used code or text that you can save and reuse. Currently there are two areas for snippets: "SAS Snippets" (provided by SAS) and "My Snippets" (the ones you create yourself).   You might want to have a third area "My Company Snippets". These would be user created snippets available to all SAS Studio users. This is currently not directly supported. This post will show you a way how to achieve this.   This method uses the functionality to create a shortcut to a SAS Content folder in another folder. This can be done manually using the "Share and Collaborate" application. In this post we are going to use the Folders API to do it, so it can be automated.   The basic steps are:   Create a folder that will hold general snippets Create a shortcut to this folder in each users "My Snippets" folder Add snippets to the folder from step 1   Snippets basics   When you create a snippet the screen will look like this:   Select any image to see a larger version. Mobile users: To view the images, select the "Full" version at the bottom of the page.   We have the following elements:   Name: the name we will see in the Snippets pane Abbreviation: This is a shortname we can give to the snippet. In the SAS program editor you can enter @abbreviation to add the text for a snippet or just enter @ to get a list of abbreviations. Description: some text explaining the purpose of the snippet Folder: this is the SAS content folder location where we will store the snippet. All the folders below the "My Snippets" folder are accessible Text: the text associated with the snippet   User defined snippets are stored as .csm files in a SAS content folder. See Working with Snippets for more information on using snippets. Now let's look at the three basic steps.   Step 1: Create a folder that will hold general snippets   In our example we create a folder for snippets in the Public folder. By default all users have read and write permission in this folder. Of course you may choose another folder where only certain users will have write access.   We use the sas-viya CLI like so:   sas-viya folders create --parent-path /Public --name "Company-Snippets" --description "Company provided snippets" Of course the folder can be created by any other method available like using the Explorer in SAS Studio.   Step 2: Create a shortcut to this folder in each users "My Snippets" folder   Now we need to create a shortcut to this new folder in each users "My Snippets" folder. This allows for easy access and the use of the @abbreviation functionality.  This can be done manually using the "Share and Collaborate" (SASDrive) application. For an automated implementation we are using operations from the Folders API to do this.   To add a shortcut to a folder in another folder we use the Add a member to a folder operation. This operation requires two folder URI's. Now you might ask what is a folder URI. You find more details in this article Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI) in SAS Viya, specifically Content URI's.   To get the folder URI from a SAS content folder we will make use of the FILESRVC file access method as it will create a macro variable with the folder URI. For more details see Generating a FILESRVC Macro Variable. See this code sample:   %symdel FILESRVC_SNIPFLD_URI / nowarn; filename snipfld filesrvc folderpath="/Public/Company-Snippets"; %put NOTE: &=_FILESRVC_SNIPFLD_URI; %symdel _FILESRVC_MYSNIP_URI / nowarn; filename mysnip filesrvc folderpath="/Users/&sysuserid/My Folder/My Snippets"; %put NOTE: &=_FILESRVC_MYSNIP_URI;   An alternative approach would be the Get a folder with a path or a child URI operation. The following code example shows how to do this.   %let base_url = %sysfunc(getoption(servicesbaseurl)); %put NOTE: &=base_url; %let folderName = /Public/Company-Snippets; filename resp temp; proc http method=get url="&base_url/folders/folders/@item" out=resp query=( "path" = "&folderName" ) oauth_bearer=sas_services ; headers "Accept" = "application/vnd.sas.content.folder+json, application/vnd.sas.content.folder.member+json" ; run; %put NOTE &=SYS_PROCHTTP_STATUS_CODE; %put NOTE: response; %put %sysfunc(jsonpp(resp, log)); libname resp json noalldata; %symdel folderUri / nowarn; data _null_; set resp.links; where rel = "self"; call symputx("folderUri", uri); run; %put NOTE: &=folderUri;   Next we use the Add a member to a folder operation to add the shortcut to the "My Snippets" folder. In the code sample below the following macro variables are used:   &folderWithSnippets holds the folder URI of the folder where we want to store the snippets. &mySnippetsFolder holds the folder URI of the "My Snippets" folder   The "type": "reference" in the request body indicates that we want to create a shortcut.   %let base_url = %sysfunc(getoption(servicesbaseurl)); %put NOTE: &=base_url; /*  * create request body  */ filename req temp; data _null_;   infile cards;   input;   _infile_ = resolve(_infile_);   file req;   put _infile_; cards; {   "name": "Company-Snippets",   "type": "reference",   "uri": "&folderWithSnippets",   "contentType": "folder" } ; filename resp temp; proc http   method=post   url="&base_url/&mySnippetsFolder/members"   in=req   out=resp   oauth_bearer=sas_services ;   headers     "Accept" = "application/vnd.sas.content.folder.member+json,application/vnd.sas.error+json" "Content-Type" = "application/json"   ; run; %put NOTE &=SYS_PROCHTTP_STATUS_CODE; %put NOTE: response; %put %sysfunc(jsonpp(resp, log));   A value of 201 in the macro variable SYS_PROCHTTP_STATUS_CODE indicates success.   You might want to add this code to a SAS macro, so that users have an easy way of running it.   Step 3: Add snippets to the folder   Let's create the snippets we need in the "Company-Snippets" folder.   If you already have a collection of snippets in your "My Snippets" area, use the Explorer pane and copy the corresponding snippet files (.csm) from the "My Folder/My Snippets" to the proper folder.   If you create a new snippet choose the right folder to store it.     The snippet is now available for use in the SAS program editor     The use of @abbreviation is switched on by default, but it can be switch off, see Setting Editors Preferences for more details.   To group your snippets, make use of sub folders within the "Company-Snippets" folder.   Summary   It is possible to add a folder that contains snippets, files with .csm extension, to the "My Snippets" in the Snippets section of the navigation pane. This has to be done individually either using the SASDrive application or using code as shown. The advantage of having snippets available through "My Snippets" is the use of abbreviations assigned to a snippet.     Find more articles from SAS Global Enablement and Learning here. ... View more