Security.CreateProjectCategories Method

Creates Project categories for web security.

Namespace:  [Security Web service]
Service reference: http://ServerName:32843/[Project Service Application GUID]/PSI/Security.svc
Web service reference: http://ServerName/ProjectServerName/_vti_bin/PSI/Security.asmx?wsdl

Syntax

'Declaration
<SoapDocumentMethodAttribute("https://schemas.microsoft.com/office/project/server/webservices/Security/CreateProjectCategories", RequestNamespace := "https://schemas.microsoft.com/office/project/server/webservices/Security/",  _
    ResponseNamespace := "https://schemas.microsoft.com/office/project/server/webservices/Security/",  _
    Use := SoapBindingUse.Literal, ParameterStyle := SoapParameterStyle.Wrapped)> _
Public Sub CreateProjectCategories ( _
    categories As SecurityProjectCategoriesDataSet _
)
'Usage
Dim instance As Security
Dim categories As SecurityProjectCategoriesDataSet

instance.CreateProjectCategories(categories)
[SoapDocumentMethodAttribute("https://schemas.microsoft.com/office/project/server/webservices/Security/CreateProjectCategories", RequestNamespace = "https://schemas.microsoft.com/office/project/server/webservices/Security/", 
    ResponseNamespace = "https://schemas.microsoft.com/office/project/server/webservices/Security/", 
    Use = SoapBindingUse.Literal, ParameterStyle = SoapParameterStyle.Wrapped)]
public void CreateProjectCategories(
    SecurityProjectCategoriesDataSet categories
)

Parameters

Remarks

This is a new method in Project Server 2010. The Project Permissions feature allows users or groups that have been granted the "Manage Basic Project Security" category permission to grant users and groups access to the projects that they own. They function like security categories. For more information, see https://blogs.msdn.com/b/project/archive/2010/03/04/project-2010-project-permissions.aspx

Project Server Permissions

Permission

Description

Non-standard

You must have either the ManageWorkflow global permission or the ChangeWorkflow global permission. If you have the ChangeWorkflow permission, you must also have both the OpenProject category permission and the SaveProject category permission.

Examples

The example uses the SvcSecurity namespace in the ProjectServerServices.dll proxy assembly. The ConfigureClientEndPoints method uses an app.config file for setting the WCF binding, behavior, and endpoint. For information about creating a PSI proxy assembly and an app.config file, see Prerequisites for WCF-Based Code Samples.

Note

This example assumes that the project does not have any category assigned to it.

The example calls the ReadProjectList method to get the list of projects. It then calls CreateProjectCategories to create the ProjectCategoriesDataset and then writes it to the XML file Categories.xml, as shown in the following code.

<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
<SecurityProjectCategoriesDataSet xmlns="https://schemas.microsoft.com/office/project/server/
webservices/SecurityProjectCategoriesDataSet/">
  <ProjectCategories>
    <WSEC_CAT_UID>
    321f7584-1f8b-4065-a432-a59b9412d8ba</WSEC_CAT_UID>
    <PROJ_UID>ff9c1198-fb7b-4e9d-88a9-1415d46a3443</PROJ_UID>
  </ProjectCategories>
</SecurityProjectCategoriesDataSet>

The UpdateProjectCategories method is called to update the ProjectCategoriesDataset. The updated DataSet is written to the UpdatedCategories.xml file, as shown in the following snippet.

<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
<SecurityProjectCategoriesDataSet xmlns="https://schemas.microsoft.com/office/project/server/
webservices/SecurityProjectCategoriesDataSet/">
  <ProjectCategories>
    <WSEC_CAT_UID>
     8ce0a52b-6218-4670-bf53-8e8df21af590</WSEC_CAT_UID>
    <PROJ_UID>aed0e69b-4470-4ddb-b063-184a9c06c9de</PROJ_UID>
  </ProjectCategories>
</SecurityProjectCategoriesDataSet>

The DeleteProjectCategories method takes an array of project GUIDs and deletes the entries in the ProjectCategoriesDataset. Following is the complete sample code.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;
using System.ServiceModel;

namespace Microsoft.SDK.Project.Samples.Security
{
    class Security
    {
        private const string ENDPOINT_S = "basicHttp_Security";
        private const string ENDPOINT_P = "basicHttp_Project";
        private const string OUTPUT_FILES = @"C:\Projects\Samples\Output\";

        private static string outFilePathCategories;
        private static string outFilePathUpdatedCategories;

        private static SvcSecurity.SecurityClient securityClient;
        private static SvcProject.ProjectClient projectClient;

        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            // If directory does not exist, create it.
            if (!Directory.Exists(OUTPUT_FILES))
            {
                Directory.CreateDirectory(OUTPUT_FILES);
            }
            // Assign the path where the output XML file will be saved.
            outFilePathCategories = OUTPUT_FILES + "Categories.xml";
            outFilePathUpdatedCategories = OUTPUT_FILES + "UpdatedCategories.xml";

            // Configure the endpoints.
            bool configResult = false;
            configResult = ConfigClientEndpoints(ENDPOINT_P);
            configResult = ConfigClientEndpoints(ENDPOINT_S);

            try
            {
                // Create a project DataSet.
                SvcProject.ProjectDataSet pDS = new SvcProject.ProjectDataSet();
                pDS = projectClient.ReadProjectList();

                // Create a project category.
                SvcSecurity.SecurityProjectCategoriesDataSet projectCategoryDataSet1 = 
                    new SvcSecurity.SecurityProjectCategoriesDataSet();
                SvcSecurity.SecurityProjectCategoriesDataSet.ProjectCategoriesRow row1 = 
                    projectCategoryDataSet1.ProjectCategories.NewProjectCategoriesRow();
                row1.WSEC_CAT_UID = Guid.NewGuid();
                row1.PROJ_UID = pDS.Project[2].PROJ_UID;
                projectCategoryDataSet1.ProjectCategories.AddProjectCategoriesRow(row1);
                securityClient.CreateProjectCategories(projectCategoryDataSet1);

                // Read project category DataSet.
                SvcSecurity.SecurityProjectCategoriesDataSet projectCategoryDataSet = 
                    securityClient.ReadProjectCategory(row1.PROJ_UID);

                // Write the project category DataSet to an XML file.
                Console.WriteLine("\nWriting the ProjectCategoryDataSet to an XML file...");
                projectCategoryDataSet.WriteXml(outFilePathCategories);
                Console.WriteLine("\nSee XML output of ProjectCategoryDataSet at {0}",
                outFilePathCategories);
                Console.Write("\nPress any key to continue: ");
                Console.ReadKey(true);

                // Update project category DataSet.
                SvcSecurity.SecurityProjectCategoriesDataSet projectCategoryDataSet3 = 
                    new SvcSecurity.SecurityProjectCategoriesDataSet();
                SvcSecurity.SecurityProjectCategoriesDataSet.ProjectCategoriesRow row2 = 
                    projectCategoryDataSet3.ProjectCategories.NewProjectCategoriesRow();
                row2.WSEC_CAT_UID = Guid.NewGuid();
                row2.PROJ_UID = pDS.Project[3].PROJ_UID;
                projectCategoryDataSet3.ProjectCategories.AddProjectCategoriesRow(row2);
                securityClient.UpdateProjectCategories(projectCategoryDataSet3);

                // Read project category DataSet.
                SvcSecurity.SecurityProjectCategoriesDataSet updatedPDS = 
                    securityClient.ReadProjectCategory(row2.PROJ_UID);

                // Write the updated project category DataSet to an XML file.
                Console.WriteLine("\nWriting the ProjectCategoryDataSet to an XML file...");
                updatedPDS.WriteXml(outFilePathUpdatedCategories);
                Console.WriteLine("\nSee XML output of ProjectCategoryDataSet at {0}",
                outFilePathUpdatedCategories);
                Console.Write("\nPress any key to continue: ");
                Console.ReadKey(true);

                // Delete project categories.
                Guid[] guidarray = new Guid[2];
                guidarray[0] = row1.PROJ_UID;
                guidarray[1] = row2.PROJ_UID;
                securityClient.DeleteProjectCategories(guidarray);
            }
            catch (CommunicationException e)
            {
                Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.Red;
                Console.WriteLine(
                    "\n***System.ServiceModel.CommunicationException:");
                Console.WriteLine(e.ToString());
                Console.ResetColor();
            }
            
        }

        // Configure the PSI client endpoints.
        public static bool ConfigClientEndpoints(string endpt)
        {
            bool result = true;

            switch (endpt)
            {

                case ENDPOINT_P:
                    projectClient = new SvcProject.ProjectClient(endpt);
                    break;
                case ENDPOINT_S:
                    securityClient = new SvcSecurity.SecurityClient(endpt);
                    break;
                default:
                    result = false;
                    Console.WriteLine("Invalid endpoint: {0}", endpt);
                    break;
            }
            return result;
        }
       

    }
}

See Also

Reference

Security Class

Security Members

Security Web Service