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• Role Examples
  Examples of how Roles works
• Working with user permissions
  A few examples on interacting with user permissions.

reference

• getAllObjects
  Object filters and result limits are enabled on this method.
• getDepartment
• getObject
  Retrieve a SoftLayer_User_Permission_Action record.
• SoftLayer_User_Permission_Action
  The SoftLayer_User_Permission_Action data type contains local attributes to identify and describe the valid actions a customer user can perform within IMS. This includes a name, key name, and description. This data can not be modified by users of IMS. It also contains relational attributes that indicate which SoftLayer_User_Permission_Group's include the action.
• SoftLayer_User_Permission_Action
  The SoftLayer_User_Permission_Action class is one of several classes that make up the customer permission system. The system is a role-based system that includes defined actions which can be grouped together using a SoftLayer_User_Permission_Group. These groups of actions are then used to define roles, and the roles are assigned to users. When a [SoftLayer_User_Customer](/reference/datatypes/SoftLayer_User_Customer) is created, a SoftLayer_User_Permission_Group and SoftLayer_User_Permission_Role is created specifically for the user with a group type of SYSTEM. When the UI is used to alter the permissions of a customer user, the actions are added or removed from this group. The api can not be used to alter the permissions in this group. If an account wants to create their own unique permission groups and roles, the UI can not be used to manage them. User Customers can be assigned to multiple roles but it is recommended to either use the UI for managing account users permissions or only use the api. Mixing the two will lead to confusing results as the UI will not show any permissions assigned to a user via a customer created role/group combination. Proceed with caution. The SoftLayer_User_Permission_Action class defines the permissions that are required in order for a SoftLayer_User_Customer to perform certain actions within IMS. See [SoftLayer_User_Permission_Group](/reference/datatypes/SoftLayer_User_Permission_Group) and [SoftLayer_Permission_Role](/reference/datatypes/SoftLayer_Permission_Role) for more details.