I recently ran into an interesting problem with user group names in SAS BI metadata. I created a new user group to own (and then restrict access to) some Portal pages. When I tried to assign pages to the new group in the Portal I received a Java traceback with a NullPointerException. After some experimentation I discovered that the problem was caused by using parentheses in the name of the group (I called it "... (supergroup)"). Evidently these get treated as delimiters somewhere in internal processing because removing them solved the problem. I recommend being aware of this and keeping your metadata names as simple as possible.
Be cautious with special characters in metadata
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