Give a new group permission to existing projects

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Hi!

I have a number of projects with existing permissions that I do not wish to remove. If a create a new group and want to give that group certain permissions to existing projects, how do I do not without wiping existing permissions (which is what happens if I (re)apply a permission template)

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  • which versions are you using (SonarQube, Scanner, Plugin, and any relevant extension)
    Enterprise Edition, Version 8.9.2 (build 46101)
  • what are you trying to achieve
    Let administrators of portfolios add projects without giving them browsing rights to those projects
  • what have you tried so far to achieve this
    Editing project permissions and portfolio permissions
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Hey there.

I’m a little confused by your post.

For this, you would browse the individual project’s Project Settings > Permissions and add the group. You could also do this programmatically using the Web API (documentation linked in the footer of your instance).

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Hi Colin!

Absolutely, I’m aware of how to do that on individual projects. But I have close to 1000 projects and I want to add a new group that should have certain permissions (Browse in this instance) to ALL existing projects. I’m not going to go through all thousand of those projects to do that. :slight_smile:

I saw the POST api/permissions/add_group, is that the best call to use to add the same permissions for the same group in multiple projects?

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You would need to iterate through the projects (probably calling GET api/projects/search) and call POST api/permissions/add_group for each project.

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To follow up we ended up running a ps-script to do what @Colin suggested.