synSetPermissions: synSetPermissions

synSetPermissionsR Documentation

synSetPermissions

Description

Sets permission that a user or group has on an Entity. An Entity may have its own ACL or inherit its ACL from a benefactor.

Usage

synSetPermissions(entity, principalId=NULL, accessType=list("READ", "DOWNLOAD"), modify_benefactor=FALSE, warn_if_inherits=TRUE, overwrite=TRUE)

Arguments

entity

An Entity or Synapse ID to modify

principalId

Identifier of a user or group

accessType

Type of permission to be granted. One or more of CREATE, READ, DOWNLOAD, UPDATE, DELETE, CHANGE_PERMISSIONS

modify_benefactor

Set as TRUE when modifying a benefactor's ACL

warn_if_inherits

Set as FALSE, when creating a new ACL.
Trying to modify the ACL of an Entity that
inherits its ACL will result in a warning

overwrite

By default this function overwrites existing
permissions for the specified user. Set this
flag to FALSE to add new permissions nondestructively.

Value

an Access Control List object

Examples

## Not run: 
synSetPermissions("syn11705401", 273950, c("READ", "DOWNLOAD"))

## End(Not run)

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