Create a Role

Owned by Helen Kosova (Deactivated)
Apr 28, 2021
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Create a new user role.

Use the following operation to create a user role in Zephyr Enterprise.

POST flex/services/rest/v3/role

Request format

To create a user role, send a POST request to the following URL:

http://{ZEPHYR-SERVER}/flex/services/rest/v3/role

Request body

{   "name":"Administration Role",   "description":null,   "roleTemplateId":"1" }

The roleTemplateId value specifies the level of permissions for certain applications in Zephyr. It can be either 1 (Administration Apps), or 2 (Project Apps).

Response body

#For Role Template 1 { "id" : 106, "name" : "Administration Role ", "hasManagerApp" : false, "deletable" : true, "editable" : true, "createdOn" : 1588062308198, "roleTemplate" : {"id" : 1,"templateName" : "Administration Apps","templateType" : 1, "templateApps" : "{   "apps": [         {"id":1,"name":"System Setup"},         {"id":2,"name":"User Setup"},         {"id":3,"name":"Project Setup"},         {"id":6,"name":"Defect Admin"},         {"id":32,"name":"Group Setup"}         ] }", "editable" : true, "deletable" : true }, "isProjectAppRole" : false}
For Role Template 2 { "id" : 107, "name" : "Project APP", "hasManagerApp" : false, "deletable" : true, "editable" : true, "createdOn" : 1588062577117, "roleTemplate" : {   "id" : 2,   "templateName" : "Project Apps","templateType" : 2,"templateApps" : "     {"apps": [         {"id":8,"name":"Release Setup"},         {"id":9,"name":"Requirements"},         {"id":11,"name":"Test Planning"},         {"id":13,"name":"Reporting"},          {"id":15,"name":"Test Repository"},          {"id":16,"name":"Test Execution"},          {"id":17,"name":"Defect Tracking"},          {"id":20,"name":"Execute All Executions"}          ]     }", "editable" : true, "deletable" : true}, "isProjectAppRole" : true }

Assign a permission to the role

Use the following operation to assign a permission to the user role.

PUT /flex/services/rest/v3/role/permission?roleid={role ID}

Request format

To assign a permission to a user role, send a PUT request to the following URL:

http://{ZEPHYR-SERVER}/flex/services/rest/v3/role/permission?roleid={role ID}

role ID is the ID of the role of the Zephyr Enterprise user.

Request body ( Administration Apps)


Request body (Project Apps)

The applicationName value indicates the application that can be accessed by the user who has the specified role.

Possible values:

1 - System Setup
2 - User Setup
3 - Project Setup
6 - Defect Admin
8 - Release Setup
9 - Requirements
11 - Test Planning
13 - Reporting
15 - Test Repository
16 - Test Execution
17 - Defect Tracking
20 - Execute All Executions
32 - Group Setup

See Also

Migration REST API