Error on action ROC - Update deployment name

[StephaneFR]

In a pre-deployment step I use this action to automatically rename the deployment being created and it usually works well.

But now I am in the case where the deployment is created by a user with low permissions in RA:

and then he gets the following error :

I am surprised about this behavior, what are the minimum permissions required to be able to run a deployment plan embeding this action ?

[Dirk Bleyenberg]

Hi ,

 

The release designer permission allows the user to 

"Enables a user to design releases for the current environment."

 

Some more details can be found in the documentation on 

Set Up Users and Permission - CA Release Automation - 6.4 - CA Technologies Documentation 

 

To create or update a deployment plan you need to have 

 

Deployment Plan Designer
Enables a user to create deployment plans, either new or from a template.

 

Regards

Dirk

[StephaneFR]

Hi Dirk,

 

Thanks for your answer, but I don't create a deployment plan.

The error is occuring in the Pre-deployment step which is executed when the release (deployment) is created.

My user is Release Designer, so I thought he would be able to update the name of the release he is creating.

[Dirk Bleyenberg]

Hi 

 

I am looking if i can get some more information on these security roles . 

 

Regards dirk

[Leo_Evers]

Hi Stephane,

I ran a quick test and Release Designer was sufficient to run the action "ROC - Update deployment property value" in a predeployment step.

• What release/build are you running? (I tested it in 6.3 b9840).
• Is it the first action in the predeployment step? If this one fails, I would expect every action within predeployment to fail with the same error?
• Was the deployment plan created from the Tools template?

regards,

Leo

[StephaneFR]

Hi Leo,

 

• I am running 5.5.2.511
• It was the only action in the process, but I made another test by adding a "delay" action or "compare" before the property update action, and the action does'nt fail, only the property update action fails.
• Yes the deployment plan have been created from the Tools Template, otherwise I can't deploy it on the target environment.

 

 

Regards,

Stéphane.

[Leo_Evers]

Hi Stéphane,

I have run additional tests but I cannot get the action to fail with Release Designer permission.

Since you are running 5.5.2 I strongly recommend to upgrade to 6.x soonest as 5.5.2 is no longer supported. It might be that you no longer experience the behavior in 6.x (which is the release i ran the tests in).

regards,

Leo

[StephaneFR]

Found it !

I was using a user who was at the same time declared as a standalone user and member of a group. I was setting the permissions on the group but it was the standalone user that was used.

Removing the standalone user solved the issue.