Import and Export

Access Control provides the ability to import and export an Access Control model. You typically use this in one of two ways:

• to transfer a new or updated Access Control configuration from your development & test environment to your production environment.

• to transfer Access Control models between your environment and aPriori Customer Support or Professional Services.

The exported Access Control configuration consists of two parts which can be exported and imported through the UI.

• Access Control Objects – These include permission definitions, attribute definitions (name/type pair), groups and subgroups hierarchy, group attributes (name/value pair), and group permissions. This is saved as an XML file and is not user-editable.

• User-Group Associations – This is the list of users who belong to each group. This is saved as a spreadsheet .xls file and is user-editable. Groups are represented as a full path (for example, "administrators/managers". (This does not export users, nor does it define new users on import.)

Note: You must be a member of the Super Users group to perform Access Control import or export operations.