While researching and testing the default Web Report Studio metadata security I noticed this little trick for young players, which means changes to WRS/WRV Metadata Security for a user are not instantly applied/recognised in WRS/WRV.
Words from the SAS tech support note “Changes to SAS® Web Report Studio role memberships might not immediately be enforced“:
“SAS Web Report Studio analyzes role memberships every 30 minutes. So, for example, if you move a user from the WRS Report Author role to the WRS Report Consumer role, the user will continue to have author privileges until the next time that he logs in after the next role membership analysis is performed. ”
So effectively the WRS/WRV applications are caching the Metadata security to remove the need for the web server to query the Metadata Server each time a user logins.
So try not to be fast when testing your WRS Metadata security changes, else you will think you have done something wrong. And remember to logout and log back in after the cache has been updated.
You can update the LocalProperties.xml file to change the refresh time, and therefore make the changes appear sooner. Details on how to do this are in the SAS Tech Support note.
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