Add Groups to an Application Dynamically

RE: Add Groups to an Application Dynamically

Stewart Burchell — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 13:04:12 GMT

The way I've seen this done before is to imagine there are two classes of Group. One you can consider to be a group that represents a "service" - that offers up the relevant functionality within your application. This is static and is attached at design-time to the object(s) that you want to expose your your different user communities. The other type of group you can consider to define the role(s) that you want your user communities to have. These can be created a run-time and, to meet your use case, can also be dynamically added to (or removed in the future) from the static groups you've defined. Think of the static groups as power sockets and your dynamic groups as plugs. You can create dynamic groups at run-time and plug them into your static power sockets. The art in this model is in defining the scope of the functionality you want to be able to expose to your user communities.

RE: Add Groups to an Application Dynamically

Harshit Bumb (Appyzie) — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 12:53:42 GMT

Cool. This is something new for me too. Thanks for sharing 😃

RE: Add Groups to an Application Dynamically

Stefan Helzle — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 12:52:06 GMT

Adding group to an application only makes sense if you want to deploy these to another environment and these are actively referenced by the application objects. I do never add any dynamically created group to an application.

What is your use case?

RE: Add Groups to an Application Dynamically

Mathieu Drouin — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 12:40:23 GMT

You might be able to do it via the Framework tools plugin - https://community.appian.com/b/appmarket/posts/framework-tools. There is a smart service "Add Objects to Application" which allows you to add objects to an application. I don't know if this plugin is cloud approved or not.

RE: Add Groups to an Application Dynamically

Harshit Bumb (Appyzie) — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 12:08:52 GMT

AFAIK, any dynamic groups created will not be added to the app via any configurations.
If you're using manual deployments, how about checking for the Missing precedents and adding them all at once?