How to assign additional roles to bulk users in Service Catalog

Products

• CA Service Catalog

Issue/Introduction

Issue:

How can we assign an "IT Services" role to 7000 users in the Catalog?

Environment

Release : 17.3

Component : SDM - Catalog

Resolution

It can be achieved via invoking the "assignBusinessUnitRoles" webservice method. 

Pre-requisites:
1. Create few users and business units.
Ex: 
Usernames: 01test05, 01test06 
Business Unit Names: ca, IT Services

Steps
1. Assign “ca” business unit to each user which are listed in the pre-requisite

Ex:  

2. Similarly add others users

3. Invoke “assignBusinessUnitRoles” webservice method from soapUI

Ex: Sample snippet of code for invoking above webservice method.

Login WebService:

 

Invoke “assignBusinessUnitRoles” WebService
 

After running this Webservice method, a new business unit will be added to this 01test05 user. Below is the screenshot.

Note: all user IDs here are for demo purposes only. So is the Business Unit.