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Creating Global Role?

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Wing Ming Chan

Jul 07, 2014 @ 02:21 PM

I have been trying to create a global role using web services without success. I don't have any problem creating a site role, but it seems that creating a global role is not allowed. The last response does not include any useful information either.

Wing

1. 1 Posted by Ryan Griffith on Jul 07, 2014 @ 02:57 PM

   

   Hi Wing,

   I was able to confirm that creating a Global Role using Web Services is possible. What parameters are you are providing? In my test, I supplied the following create paramaters:

   "authentication" => array(
       "username" => "",
       "password" => ""
   ),
   "asset" => array(
       "role" => array(
           "name" => "test-global",
           "roleType" => "global",
           "globalAbilities" => array()
       )
   )
   

   Can you confirm you are supplying the global role type along with the globalAbilities parameter? Also, if you are providing parameters, make sure you are passing valid global-abilities.

   Please let me know if you have any questions.

   Thanks!

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2. 2 Posted by Wing Ming Chan on Jul 07, 2014 @ 03:07 PM

   

   Ryan,

   It's my fault. While I was testing site role creation, I set siteAbilities to an stdClass object and globalAbilities to NULL. But then I forgot to switch when I tried to create a global role. globalAbilities was still set to NULL. With this property set properly, my code works.

   Thanks,
   Wing

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3. 3 Posted by Ryan Griffith on Jul 07, 2014 @ 03:12 PM

   

   Not a problem at all, Wing. I am glad to hear you were able to get your code working.

   I'm going to go ahead and close this discussion, please feel free to comment or reply to re-open if you have any additional questions.

   Have a great day!

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4. Ryan Griffith closed this discussion on Jul 07, 2014 @ 03:12 PM.