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Assign Users & Groups to Roles on a Single Document

Assign users and groups to roles on a single document or binder. The single document API does not support assigning users and groups to roles with Dynamic Access Control (DAC) enabled.

POST/api/{version}/objects/documents/{id}/roles
NameDescription
Content-Typeapplication/x-www-form-urlencoded
Acceptapplication/json (default) or application/xml
NameDescription
{id}The document or binder id field value.

Include name-value pairs of all users or groups with their corresponding roles in the form {Role_name}.{USERS or GROUPS}=ID1,ID2,ID3. For example, reviewer__v.users = "3003, 4005".

curl -X POST -H "Authorization: {SESSION_ID}" \ -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" \ -d "consumer__v.users=35565,35571" \ -d "approver__v.users-45585,45594" \ https://myvault.veevavault.com/api/v18.3/objects/documents/245/roles
{ "responseStatus": "SUCCESS", "responseMessage": "Document roles updated", "updatedRoles": { "consumer__v": { "users": [ 19376,18234,19456 ] }, "legal__c": { "groups": [ 19365,18923 ] } } }

The response includes ROLE:ID pairs for the users and groups successfully assigned to roles on the document or binder.