Category: Metacoda Plug-ins

Metacoda Plug-ins Tip: Find ResponsibleParty Objects for a User

Sometimes you want to find all of the SAS metadata objects a user may be associated with. Where SAS applications have tagged a user as a ResponsibleParty, we can use the Metacoda Metadata Explorer with an advanced XMLSELECT style query to find them. Use the following query (including curly braces) in the Search field, replacing the Name value (demobob here) with the name (not display name) of the user you want to look for:

{{{ *[ResponsibleParties/ResponsibleParty/Persons/Person[@Name='demobob'] }}}

This will show all objects in metadata where demobob is present as one of the responsible parties (see below).​ Continue reading “Metacoda Plug-ins Tip: Find ResponsibleParty Objects for a User”

Metacoda Plug-ins Tip: Forced Refresh (or not)

This is the first of a series of quick-tip type posts on Metacoda Plug-ins. Most of my previous posts have been relatively long (and less frequent). These quick-tip posts will generally be shorter and hopefully more frequent (time permitting). They will mostly be of use to Metacoda customers and may include links to the appropriate documentation pages (login required). I will the posts with “Metacoda Plug-ins Tip” so you can browse the collection if you want (currently a collection of 1!).

To kick the series off, this post is about the forced-refresh preferences. These are preferences that control whether or not Metacoda Plug-ins will refresh its cache of SAS security metadata prior to exporting HTML, CSV and Security Test XML files. You will find these preferences as check-boxes located in Security Tools Common Preferences available via the Preferences context menu item from right-mouse clicking over most of the Metacoda Plug-ins.

Metacoda Plug-ins Security Tools Node Context Menu Continue reading “Metacoda Plug-ins Tip: Forced Refresh (or not)”