How to deploy resources and roles?

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Evgeny Shvarov · Feb 25, 2017

Hi, Community!

Consider I have ResourceA which is used by role RoleA in dev environment and want to deploy it with the solution on a target system.

Would you please share the best practices to make it?

Thank you in advance!

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Tirthankar Bachhar · Feb 27, 2017

There are many predefined methods defined by Cache under Security.* package to maintain/manage Roles/Users/Resources ...ect.

Specific to your query, you can use below command to export/import Roles:

Write ##class(Security.Roles).Export("C:\RolesExport.xml")
Write ##class(Security.Roles).Import("C:\RolesExport.xml")

Roles:
Please refer to below class doc for more: http://docs.intersystems.com/latest/csp/documatic/%25CSP.Documatic.cls?LIBRARY=%25sys&CLASSNAME=Security.Roles&CSPCHD=000000000000gt0xiwWBxf8D77QROEE$c2JR50xdHrcUuUzSzc&CSPSHARE=1

Resources:
http://docs.intersystems.com/latest/csp/documatic/%25CSP.Documatic.cls?LIBRARY=%25sys&CLASSNAME=Security.Roles&CSPCHD=000000000000gt0xiwWBxf8D77QROEE$c2JR50xdHrcUuUzSzc&CSPSHARE=1

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score 1 · Answer 1 · 2017-02-27T04:05:09-05:00

John Murray · Feb 27, 2017

In case it's not obvious to people, the Security package is only available in the %SYS namespace.

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score 0 · Answer 2 · 2017-02-28T01:49:38-05:00

Tirthankar Bachhar · Feb 28, 2017

True John, agree with you. Its only available from %SYS.

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score 1 · Answer 3 · 2017-02-27T04:55:00-05:00

Evgeny Shvarov · Feb 27, 2017

Thank you, Bachhar for the thorough and full answer!

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score 0 · Answer 4 · 2017-09-27T15:43:38-04:00

What if I want to export Resources only and then manage it on a target system manually?

It's not obvious how to export Resources only.

score 1 · Answer 5 · 2017-09-27T15:59:13-04:00

Write ##class(Security.Resources).Export("C:\Resources.xml")
Write ##class(Security.Resources).Import("C:\Resources.xml")

score 0 · Answer 6 · 2017-09-27T16:00:38-04:00

Evgeny Shvarov · Sep 27, 2017

Thanks :)

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score 1 · Answer 7 · 2017-09-28T03:14:10-04:00

Note that apart from Export and Import options -

If you are using a %Installer Manifest for your deployment (for any environment - test or prod) - you can include in that manifest also the creation of Security elements such as Resources and Roles, etc.

For example:

<Resource
    Name="%accounting_user" 
    Description="Accounting"
    Permission="RW"/>

And:

<Role 
    Name="%DB_USER"
    Description="Database user"
    Resources="MyResource:RW,MyResource1:RWU"
    RolesGranted= />

See more information here (in the docs).

[Defining a Role as part of a manifest is also included in an example in [@Eduard Lebedyuk]'s post here]