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Controlling Access to Applications

Controlling Access to Your Applications

For each group of users, you can deny access to individual applications or application databases.

Before you begin

1. Make sure that the application databases and applications that make up your SAS/EIS application are available.

2. Activate access control.

Then, follow these steps:

1. Open the Access Control Setup window by selecting Setup from the EIS Main Menu and Access Control from the Setup window's Multidimensional Applications group. When you are prompted, type the access control key.

2. In the Access Control Setup window, select Access Control List Definition and Application Access Control.

3. You can drop or keep entire application databases or individual applications. The following guidelines apply:
   • Dropping an application database ensures that no user in the selected group will be allowed to run any application in the application database.

   • Dropping an application ensures that no user in the selected group will be allowed to run this application within this application database.

   • Keeping an application ensures that the users in the selected group will only be allowed to run this application within this application database (and any other applications within this application database that are tagged Keep).

     

   Note:   Although you can define a combination of Drop and Keep tags, the Keep tags always take precedence.  
   

Controlling Access to Your Applications' Functions

For each group of users, you can deny access to certain parts of the SAS/EIS environment and disable parts of the default run-time functionality of multidimensional EIS reports.

Before you begin

• Activate access control.

Then, follow these steps:

1. Enter the Access Control Setup window by selecting Setup from the EIS Main Menu and Access Control from the Setup window's Multidimensional Applications group.

2. In the Access Control Setup window, select Access Control List Definition and then Function Access Control.

   

   The Function Access Control Definition window allows you to restrict access to certain areas of the EIS environment and to certain functions within reports.

   • You can deny access to the
     • Access Control Setup window

     • Metabase definition windows

     • Build Application windows

     • Object Database windows.

   • You can make the following run-time selections unavailable:
     • Report Layout

     • Computed Values

     • Show Detail Data

     • Save/Save As.

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