Administering extended actions

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Verify Identity Access provides a default set of actions (permissions) that belong to the primary action group that can be granted to users or groups. You can use the administration API to define new, extended actions that supplement the set of default actions. Each of the extended actions can belong to the primary action group or to a custom action group.

Extended actions are typically defined to support actions that are specific to a third-party application. For more information about extended actions, see the section about creating extended ACL actions and action groups in the IBM Verify Identity Access for Web: Administration Guide.

Table 1 lists the methods for administering extended actions.

Table 1. Administering extended actions
FunctionsMethods	Description
ivadmin_action_create() PDAction.createAction	Defines a new action (permission) code in the specified action group.
ivadmin_action_delete() PDAction.deleteAction	Deletes an action (permission) code from the specified action group.
PDAction constructor	Gets the specified `PDAction` object.
ivadmin_action_getdescription() PDAction object.getDescription	Returns the description for the specified action.
ivadmin_action_getid() PDAction object.getId	Returns the codename for the specified action.
ivadmin_action_gettype() PDAction object.getType	Returns the type for the specified action.
ivadmin_action_list() PDAction.listActions	Lists all the defined actions (permissions)action (permission) codes for the specified action group.

For detailed reference information about these methods, see the Javadoc HTML documentation.