Unreadable Custom Portal Role Name

Question

When I try and create list of all our Portal and AGOL users, and expose roles and the default roles come out correctly but for custom roles that were created, they usually come out as unreadable text as show below,

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Is there a way to properly get the role names?

Thanks,

Chris P

AvinashPatel · Answer

Hi 
You can use

from arcgis.gis import GIS 
source = GIS("Portal Web Adaptor URL", "Admin", "Password")
role_mgr = arcgis.gis.RoleManager(source)
roles = role_mgr.all()
for role in roles:
 print("Role Name: {}".format(role.name))
 print("Role Privileges: {}".format(role.privileges))

tempJamiePowell · Answer

Hello Fay, Chris,

The issue is that the user role name, and user role id are switched in the source code. Obtaining the role from the user will always return the id. If you attempt to search for a user by name using the ID text returned, you will not get any search results. As a work around I am now searching by roleId instead.

Thank you,

Jamie Powell

AdenaSchutzberg1 · Answer

Hello Fay, Chris,

Jamie Powell‌ and I just found and submitted a bug in the Python API on this matter. We were working in ArcGIS Online, but had the same issue. The good news is that for now you can use the "unreadable" (what I like to call "ishkabible") text for the custom role and code will respect it.

Adena