Predefined Roles
About Predefined Roles
Predefined Roles and Capabilities for SAS Web Report Studio
SAS Web Report Studio includes three
predefined roles with certain capabilities that are assigned to these
roles initially. These predefined roles are:
You are not required
to use predefined roles. You can create roles and assign capabilities
that meet the needs of your organization.
The following display
of the Web Report Studio: Report Viewing Properties window
shows the capabilities that are assigned initially to the predefined
role, Report Viewing. This window is accessed by navigating the SAS
Management Console to the User Manager and selecting the
Capabilities tab
in the Web Report Studio: Report Viewing role window.
The following table
shows three predefined roles, and capabilities that are initially
assigned to these roles in SAS Web Report Studio. Capabilities that
are assigned initially to these roles are indicated by an X. You can
modify the original settings, assign additional capabilities, or remove
capabilities from these roles.
Certain capabilities
are duplicated across the three predefined roles. For example, all
of the assigned capabilities for Report Viewing are also available
in the Report Creation and Advanced roles.
Note: If a user has been assigned
multiple roles and multiple capabilities, removing a capability from
one role does not negate that capability if the user was assigned
that capability in a different role. For example, if John was assigned
Print capability in all three roles (Report Viewing, Report Creation,
and Advanced), removing the Print capability from the Advanced role
alone does not prevent John from using that capability. In order to
completely remove the Print capability for John, it must be deselected
for all three roles to which John belongs. Alternatively, John can
be assigned to a single role where the Print capability is not assigned.
Roles and Capabilities for SAS Web Report Studio
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Allow Direct Access
to Information Maps1
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Allow Direct Access
to Cubes2
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Allow Direct Access
to Tables2
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Copy Section2
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Create Remote Application
Report Links2
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Update Resources3
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| 1If you are using (or if you migrated from) SAS Web Report Studio 4.2, then the name of this capability is Open Maps as Reports. | ||||
| 2This capability is available in SAS Web Report Studio 4.3 and later. | ||||
| 3If you migrated from SAS Web Report Studio 4.2, then the name of this capability is Repair Report. | ||||
In order to be functional,
some capabilities have prerequisites. Here is an explanation of each
capability and prerequisites for certain capabilities:
Basic:Allow Direct Access to Information Mapsopen information maps
directly as reports. Without this capability, information maps are
suppressed from the Open and Manage pages. With this capability, users
can access information maps from the Open and Manage pages and view
them as reports. Users who have the Create Report capability can select
an Edit action when an information map is selected.
Basic:Allow Direct Access to Cubesopen cubes directly
as reports, or open cubes as information maps when specifying a data
source. Without this capability, cubes are suppressed from the Open
and Manage pages. With this capability, users can access cubes from
the Open and Manage pages and view them as reports. Users who have
the Create Report capability can select an Edit action when a cube
is selected.
Basic:Allow Direct Access to Tablesopen tables directly
as reports, or open tables as information maps when specifying a data
source. Without this capability, tables are suppressed from the Open
and Manage pages. With this capability, users can access tables from
the Open and Manage pages and view them as reports. Users who have
the Create Report capability can select an Edit action when a table
is selected.
Basic:Promote Web Report Viewer to Web Report
Studiodisplays the SAS Web
Report Studio interface when a user requests to view a report from
another product such as SAS Information Delivery Portal. Initially,
this capability is assigned to all predefined roles. If this capability
is unassigned, and a user's request to view a report from within another
product is granted, then the SAS Web Report Viewer interface is used
to present the report. When this capability is assigned to a role
to which a user belongs, the SAS Web Report Studio interface is displayed
when that user requests to view a report through the SAS Information
Delivery Portal or other products.
Basic:Modify Repositoryprovide basic modifications
to repository such as copy, move, rename, and delete. This capability
does not grant the ability to save changes to reports.
OLAP:Expand and Collapse Allexpand or collapse
an entire OLAP hierarchy. This capability requires the Report Creation:Basic
Edit capability and the OLAP:Expand and Collapse capability.
Output:Savesave changes to reports.
This capability requires that the user also has Modify Repository
capability.
Output:Schedule Own Reportschedule reports authored
by the users themselves. The Schedule All Reports capability
is available in the SAS Web Report Studio's Advanced role.
Report Creation:Create Reportcreate new reports.
The Save capability is a prerequisite for this capability.
Report Creation:Basic Editperform basic editing
operations for tables and graphs. Operations include:
Report Creation:Aggregate or Detailspecify whether data
is detail data or aggregated data (relational reports only)
Report Creation:Select All Dataable to choose “Select
All” data items from the Select Data dialog
box.
Report Creation:Select Data in Viewuse the Select
Data dialog box to select data while viewing a report.
Report Creation:Copy Sectioncreate a new report
section that is a complete copy of another section. This capability
is available in SAS Web Report Studio 4.3 and later.
Advanced Report Creation:Create Remote Application
Report Linkscreate linked reports
that link to another SAS application. This capability is available
in SAS Web Report Studio 4.3 and later.
Advanced Report Creation:Advanced Editenable users to perform
the following functions:
The Report Creation:
Basic Edit capability is a prerequisite for this capability. In SAS
Web Report Studio, the Include Member with Only Missing
Values menu item is available only for multidimensional
data sources. The Suppress Empty function in the Advanced Edit capability
is required in order for users of multidimensional data sources to
view and use the Include Member with Only Missing Values menu
item under the Data Menu in SAS Web Report
Studio.
Advanced Report Creation:Update Resourcesupdate an invalid information
map reference that is contained in a report definition. If you are
using (or if you migrated from) SAS Web Report Studio 4.2, then the
name of this capability is Repair Report.
Advanced Scheduling:Save Archivearchive file versions.
When creating a pre-generated version of a report (for example, a
scheduled report), a version of the report is archived as a PDF file.
Reports with archived versions are visually different in report selection
dialog boxes, and access is allowed to these archived versions.
Advanced Scheduling:Schedule Any Reportschedule any report
to which the users have WriteMetadata access, including the reports
that they have authored.
Administrative:Manage Distribution Listcreate, edit, or delete
a distribution list.
CAUTION:
Use of
this capability creates a new physical table. Therefore, this capability
must be restricted to few users. The distribution list contains e-mail
addresses. Initially, this capability is not assigned to any SAS Web
Report Studio role. An administrator can assign this capability to
the Advanced role, or create a new role (for example, a role named
as Manage Distribution) specifically for this capability and assign
this role to a restricted number of users.
Predefined Roles for SAS Web Report Viewer
SAS Web Report Viewer includes two
predefined roles with certain capabilities assigned initially to these
roles. These predefined roles are:
The following table
shows the two predefined roles for SAS Web Report Viewer. Capabilities
that are initially assigned to these roles are indicated by an X.
You can unassign existing capabilities or reassign capabilities to
these roles. Unlike SAS Web Report Studio, SAS Web Report Viewer has
a smaller subset of capabilities available for roles.
Roles and Capabilities for SAS Web Report Viewer
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Allow Direct Access
to Information Maps1
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Allow Direct Access
to Cubes2
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Allow Direct Access
to Tables2
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| 1If you are using (or if you migrated from) SAS Web Report Viewer 4.2, then the name of this capability is Open Maps as Reports. | |||
| 2This capability is available in SAS Web Report Viewer 4.3 and later. | |||
Basic:Allow Direct Access to Information Mapsopen information maps
directly as reports. Without this capability, information maps are
suppressed from the Open and Manage pages. With this capability, users
can access information maps from the Open and Manage pages and view
them as reports.
Basic:Allow Direct Access to Cubesopen cubes directly
as reports, or open cubes as information maps when specifying a data
source. Without this capability, cubes are suppressed from the Open
and Manage pages. With this capability, users can access cubes from
the Open and Manage pages and view them as reports.
Basic:Allow Direct Access to Tablesopen tables directly
as reports, or open tables as information maps when specifying a data
source. Without this capability, tables are suppressed from the Open
and Manage pages. With this capability, users can access tables from
the Open and Manage pages and view them as reports.