Group Identity Member AML

Hi Klaus, The simplest AML to accomplish this would look something like below if you already know the ID of the Group Identity and the member Identity.

<AML>
<Item type="Member" action="add">
<source_id>@1</source_id>
<related_id>@2</related_id>
</Item>
</AML>

Chris

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Christopher Gillis Aras Labs Software Engineer

Hi Chris, the groups already exist and it could be that the member is already included. Currently when I run the AML the member is always added again. I have tried several variants, like this one, but none worked. <Item type="Member" where="keyed_name='@1'" action="merge"> <keyed_name>@1</keyed_name> <source_id>@1</source_id> <related_id>@2</related_id> </Item> So how to avoid that the member is added more times? I appreciate your comments.

Hi Klaus, It is not possible to manually set the keyed_name of an item using the AML above; the keyed_name will always be set to the properties marked by the Keyed Name Order column on an ItemType. If no properties are marked, the keyed_name will be set to the ID of the item. Because of this, searching on the keyed_name will not work unless you know the ID of the new item ahead of time. Because the merge action requires some criteria to be passed, I'd recommend using a where clause like below.

<AML>
<Item type="Member" action="merge" where="member.source_id = '@1' and member.related_id = '@2'">
<source_id>@1</source_id>
<related_id>@2</related_id>
</Item>
</AML>

Chris

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Christopher Gillis Aras Labs Software Engineer

Thanks Chris, the code works well!

I was on here to try to find how to turn this into a server method, but here is how to add an existing identity as member to an identity. Just a different snippet that works for me. It does: Edit Identity / Add Member / Get Identity to add as member.

<AML>
    <Item type="Identity" action="edit" where="[identity].name='All Employees'">
      <Relationships>
          <Item type="Member" action="add">
              <related_id>
                  <Item type="Identity" action="get">
                      <name>test user</name>
                  </Item>
              </related_id>
          </Item>
      </Relationships>
    </Item>
  </AML>