Using Fusion to update userRoles for users?

[Kurt_Jones]

I have a job role I need to apply to several 100 users in the Other roles area as they all have primary roles.  I was hoping to do this via Fusion but I've not been able to figure out how to update the USRROL properly for a user.  Anyone have experience doing an update like this to provide a bit of guidance?

[Doug_Den_Hoed__AtAppStore]

Hi @Kurt_Jones,

I look forward to learning The Right Way from some other kind responder, but until then....

Under some duress, I once created a loop to keep changing each user's primary role through all of their roles, "spinning off" each replacement as an otherRole in so doing, then being careful to ensure that the Wheel-Of-Fortune stopped spinning on what was their correct Primary Role.

Regards,

Doug

[skyehansen]

I don't have an answer for you, but I wanted to let you know there's a similar question on the Fusion practice exam. In that case, the question was about adding more than one custom form to a project, since you can only do the primary using the native module.

The answer was to use a custom API call using objectCategories, so I assume the same would hold for you (using userRoles). You mentioned USRROL, so I assumed you're trying a native module as well, but please correct me if I assumed wrong.

[Kurt_Jones]

Thanks Skye, yea, I've been trying via custom API, the userRoles is a nested collection under USER and I've been struggling to find the right JSON structure, if there is one, to allow a POST or PUT to happen to that field.  I'll keep trying and post back if I have any success but to date, not yet.

[skyehansen]

I'm not sure it's useful to comment further, but wondered if you had tried a structure like this:

https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/workfront-fusion-2-0-questions/fusion-how-to-add-us...

[AlexRose69]

You can update user roles in bulk using PowerShell scripts or the Graph API. If Fusion doesn't support direct updates to the USRROL, these methods allow you to automate the process and apply the role across multiple users. Let me know if you need help with the specific commands or setup!

[Kurt_Jones]

AlexRose69, I'm not familiar with PowerShell or Graph API but if you have any resources/information on how to use them to update the USRROL object I'm willing to give it a try.  Thanks for the insight.

[Rafal_Bainie · Accepted solution]

I think I saw similar question already and I was answering it. Anyway

We have this custom API module to update roles:

as you can notice user Roles are updated with JSON string that you need to prepare like that:

and output of this usually looks like this:

hope this is helpful