Transporting Permissions 

Use

The portal provides the capability to transfer permissions for portal content in the PCD and security zones from one portal to another.

The permission transport mechanism described in this section uses an intermediary XML file, which contains the exported ACL structure in your source system. To import the ACL structure to any target system, you then upload the XML file.

When transporting content between portals using the Transport Package Editor, you can include portal permissions with the content selected for export (see Transport of Portal Objects).

 

Prerequisites

·        The user base in the source system and in the target system is the same.

·        The portal content and security zones defined in the XML should already exist in the target system. For additional information on how the import handles objects that are defined in the portal, but not in the XML, and vice versa, see Importing Permissions.

 

Activities

The process for transporting permissions involves the following:

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       1.      Exporting the permission structure from a source system to an XML file. See Exporting Permissions.

       2.      Uploading the XML file to a target system. See Importing Permissions.

Note that you can view the entire ACL structure using an external tool. See Viewing the Entire Portal Permission Structure.