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
Tag: Metadata
Be cautious with special characters in metadata
Clean up your SAS metadata
If your SMC or other metadata-based SAS tools seem to take a long time to load up when connecting to the metadata server you may benefit from running a reorg. The %OMABAKUP macro includes a reorg parameter which reduces the amount of fragmentation in how the datasets making up SAS
Finding the Elusive Metadata
So what do you do when you create metadata that cannot be currently managed via the SAS Management Console? Take for instance the Theme Deployments for the Portal. The standard is alright, but what company wanted their measures all to be printed with the 'SAS Portal' words on the top