How to share existing SAS® Enterprise Miner(tm) projects among multiple users


This KB article documents steps to share existing SAS Enterprise Miner projects (projects that have already been created) among multiple SAS Enterprise Miner users.

Example: you want to share a sample project named "test" that was created in the C:\temp directory. Perform the following steps:

1. Follow the "Note" section of Step 3 and Step 4 from SAS KB0036173: "Setting the default SAS® Management Console storage folder in SAS® Enterprise Miner(tm)7.x" to set up a shared metadata folder for projects that you want to share (project "test"). Assign appropriate metadata permissions to your group of SAS Enterprise Miner users as mentioned in the article. 

2. On your SAS Enterprise Miner compute (application) server where the project physically resides, provide full operating-system-level access to the project to the group of your SAS Enterprise Miner users from Step 1. For this instance, you need to grant required file-system permissions to the  C:\tempt\test directory.

3. Log on to SAS® Management Console as an unrestricted account. Navigate to Plug-ins ► Application Management ► Enterprise Miner plug-in ► Projects ► Logical Workspace server where the "test" project is saved. Highlight the project on the right white pane.  Right-click the project and click Delete:

 

 

This step deletes just the metadata pointers of the project.

4. Have one of your users who belongs to the SAS Enterprise Miner group from Step 1 log on to SAS Enterprise Miner.  The user should create a new project by specifying the exact same project name ("test") and project location (C:\temp):

 

 

Check to verify that the following ProjectExist pop-up is displayed during the project creation. If the pop-up is not displayed, then either the project name or the project location is incorrect:

 

Click Yes in the pop-up. On the next pane, change the metadata folder location to the new Shared Data folder that you created in Step 1:

 

5. After you complete Steps 1-4 above, the project "test" is displayed in SAS Management Console under the shared folder that you created in Step 1 ("Shared Data/EM Shared"):

6. Users who want to access the project "test" can do so by logging on to SAS Enterprise Miner and opening the project from the shared folder:

 

Note that Steps 1-5 are to be completed only once for each project that you want your users to share. After completion, they are able to access the projects simply by opening the projects from the shared folder as mentioned in Step 6.