Locations and permissions of imported resource and action groups

In
FactoryTalk® Administration Console
 or
FactoryTalk View Studio
, imported action groups and resources appear in different places in the
FactoryTalk Directory
, depending on the version of the
FactoryTalk® Automation Platform
 or
FactoryTalk® Services Platform
 installed, and on the choices made during the import.
  • Importing RSSecurity action groups with group memberships intact places the groups, with all associated actions, into the Action Groups folder in the
    FactoryTalk Directory
    . Importing RSSecurity resource groups with group memberships intact prompts you to select an application or area as a destination for all of the resources within each group. Use this import method only if all of the computers in your
    FactoryTalk
     system have been updated to
    FactoryTalk Services Platform
     2.10 or later.
  • Importing RSSecurity action groups and resource groups as individual actions and resources creates individual actions or resources under the
    Networks and Devices
     folder in the
    FactoryTalk Directory
    . Choose this import method if the computers in the
    FactoryTalk
     system are still running
    FactoryTalk Automation Platform
     2.00.
AreasAppliations
Where imported RSSecurity resource groups and action groups are assigned:
When you import
And import groups
And do not import groups
Resources
The resource's actions are assigned to the application or area where the resource is located.
The resource actions are assigned to the resource.
Global Resource (for
RSLogix 5
,
RSLogix 500
,
Logix Designer
 application, and
RSLinx®
Global Resources are policies and appear in the Policies folder of the
FactoryTalk Directory
.
Action Group
If the resource is not a member of a resource group, but has an action group applied to it in the .bak file, then the action group is applied to the resource in the
Networks and Devices
 tree.
The action group is created in the
Action Groups
 folder of the
FactoryTalk Directory
. The group is given the same name as the action group in the .bak file.
Actions that are not supported in
FactoryTalk Directory
 are not imported.
If the resource is not a member of a resource group, but has an action group applied to it in the .bak file, then the individual actions in the group are applied to the resource in the
Networks and Devices
 tree.
The action group is unrolled—that is, the individual contents of the group appear where the group was previously located, and the permissions of each group are applied to the individual actions that existed previously in the group. These actions are applied to the hardware device listed in the
Networks and Devices
 tree.
New
Logix Designer
 application Resource Group
The group, including policies, is assigned to the
Networks and Devices
 folder of the
FactoryTalk Directory
, as well as each individual resource. The resource is placed in both locations so that if the resource is moved from the network, the resource's inherited permissions move with the resource.
Resource permissions are inherited as indicated:
permissions
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