Exporting and importing rights and roles

You can export rights and role definitions from any zone if you want to save part or all of the information to a file. You can then import all or part of that information into a new zone and modify it, if needed. For example, you can choose to export all the rights you have defined in one zone but create a completely new set of role definitions for those rights in another zone. Exporting and importing provides a convenient way to copy and paste multiple rights and role definitions at one time.

Rights, roles, and role assignments are all inherited from parent to child zones, so there is no need to import or export any authorization information within a zone hierarchy. However, if you have multiple parent zones—for example, representing different geographical regions—you might want to use export and import to copy authorization information from one geographical region’s zone to another.

Exporting authorization information

You can export multiple rights and role definitions to an .xml file that you can then use to import these definitions into another zone. You can also copy and paste or drag and drop individual rights and role definitions between zones.

To export rights and role definitions:

  1. Open Access Manager.

  2. Expand Zones and the individual parent or child zones required to select the zone name from which you want to export authorization information.

  3. Select the Authorization node, right-click, then click Export Roles and Rights.

  4. Select the information you want to export, then click Next.

    For example, select All to export all of the rights and all role definitions. Selecting all or individual role definitions exports all of the rights included in those role definitions.

  5. Click Browse to specify a location and file name for the export file, then click Next.

  6. Review the information to be exported, then click Finish.

Importing authorization information

You can import multiple rights and role definitions that you have previously exported from a zone and saved to an .xml file. You can also copy and paste or drag and drop individual rights and role definitions between zones.

To import rights and role definitions

  1. Open Access Manager.

  2. Expand Zones and the individual parent or child zones required to select the zone name into which you want to import authorization information.

  3. Select the Authorization node, right-click, then click Import Roles and Rights.

  4. Click Browse to navigate to the file that contains the authorization information you want to import, then click Next.

  5. Select the information you want to import, then click Next.

  6. Review the information to be imported, then click Finish.