To build your authorization logic more quickly and accurately, you can make editable
copies of many of your Policy Editor entities.
Within the Policies and Trust Framework pages,
you can copy whole definitions, policies, rules, statements, and
Library entities. See the following table for
page-specific capabilities and limitations.
Policy Editor page |
Capabilities and limitations |
Trust Framework
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- You can copy any definition.
- You can't copy a portion of a definition, such as a resolver.
- Copy the whole definition to duplicate any of its
content, or manually copy the element between
definitions.
- When you copy a definition that contains child definitions,
only the parent definition is duplicated.
- You can't copy definition hierarchy trees.
|
Policies
|
- You can copy any policy, rule, or statement.
- You can't copy policy sets.
- You can't copy targets, conditions, or properties within a
policy or rule.
- When you copy policies containing rules, targets, or statements belonging to the
Library, these entities get
reused in the new policy, not copied.
- When you copy rules or statements within a policy, you must save the policy.
|
Library
|
- On the Library tab, you can copy top-level
Library rules, targets, and
statements.
- You can also copy statements within rules.
- You can't copy targets within rules.
- You can copy Library rules and
statements at their point of use.
- When you make copies of
Library entities within
rules or policies, the copies display at the point
of use and on the Library
tab.
- Where relevant, the copying capabilities and limitations listed for the
Policies page apply to
Library entities.
|
Trust Framework,
Policies, and
Library
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- You can't use Make Copy in the tree
structure view.
- You must save any unsaved changes to an entity before making
a copy.
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