Easiest way for Security Role duplication

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Posted on by Sohaib Cheema

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I was just wondering if there could be an easy way to duplicate security role, prior to I start writing script/code myself.

Any suggestion if someone has duplicated security roles with least effort. By saying least effort, I am interested to avoid manual duplication by right clicking each object (role, duty and privilege)

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Vilmos Kintera 46,149 on at

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In \AOT\Security\Roles\YourSecurityRole > Right click > Duplicate is the least effort.

You can shift+click or control+click to highlight multiple roles and duplicate them at once.

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This tool for moving roles between layers may help might help , because one of its tasks is to copy a role.

stoneridgesoftware.com/moving-security-role-objects-in-dynamics-ax-from-one-layer-to-another

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Jonathan Halland 11,310 on at

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Hi Sohaib

Please email/message me and I can provide you with a script to do a full deep copy of a role. I.E. Copying all the sub roles, privileges, duties etc...

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Long.Thai 130 on at

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Hi Sohaib,

Try using this:

static void DuplicateSecurityRole(Args _args) { #AOT TreeNode treeNode; treeNode duplicateNode; treeNode = TreeNode::findNode(#SecRolesPath); duplicateNode = treeNode.AOTfindChild('SecurityRole'); if (duplicateNode) { duplicateNode.AOTDuplicate(); duplicateNode = treeNode.AOTfindChild(strFmt('CopyOf%1', 'SecurityRole')); duplicateNode.AOTsetProperty('Name', 'NewName'); duplicateNode.AOTsave(); } }

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Sohaib Cheema 49,677 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Thank you everyone for positive contributions.

@Jonathan

Thank you for providing the xpo, it helped me a lot by saving my time and that was exactly what I was thinking to code. I would appreciate if you would like to make a public post about that may be posting code partially or fully (as long as you don’t have any customer agreement for distribution of that particular code). It will help all the community. Always your contributions have been helpful for others.

Have a good weekend!

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guk1964 10,888 on at

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One other useful (free) resource I had forgotten

www.axpulse.com/.../user-rights-copy

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Sohaib Cheema 49,677 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi magic1949,

there is difference between following two

1) copy security(role) from one user to other

2) copy actual role itself with all its content

I was looking for #2

to do #1, we can use standard ax where we ca assign same roles or duties or privileges to other users

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Hello Jonathan,

I am interested in your script, would you please email me your XPO file.

Thanks

Gamal Hammad

email: gamal@ezz-elarab.com

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Shahzad Sarang VZS 45 on at

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Hello Jonathan,

I am stuck in performing security role duplication, would you please help me with your XPO file.

Thanks

Muhammad Shahzad Sarang

email: shahzad.sarang@vizorsol.com

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Hi Jonathan,

I need the script too, would you please email me the XPO file.

Thanks

Babar Moin

email: babarmoin@gmail.com

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