Security

How would I design a role that only gives the ability to create (and search) indexes?

juniormint
Communicator

I was looking at the list of capabilities and it was not clear to me which would grant the ability to create new indexes. Could someone help me with this?

Capabilities List

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JohnMurphyAus
Path Finder

You can add the "indexes_edit" capability to the role. This will allow a user to create and edit indexes. 

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juniormint
Communicator

See somesoni2's comment above.

Evidently "admin_all_objects" is the only capability that enables index creation

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somesoni2
Revered Legend

Nothing that I know of.

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juniormint
Communicator

Nothing more restrictive!?!

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somesoni2
Revered Legend

you would need "admin_all_objects" capability to the role/user in order to be able to create indexes.

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juniormint
Communicator

Does silence mean it is not possible? Can someone ring in please.

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