List of all System Objects in order to set permissions in a batch (script)

[jacekgra]

Is there any way to obtain list of all SystemObjects that exists in Thingworx?

I would like to set specific permissions on all SystemObjects and I definetlly don't want to do it manually

[PaiChung]

Each Entity carries isSystemObject

You might be able to leverage one of the SearchFunctions and use that Property in conjunction.

[SajidPatel]

This snippet might help:

var types = Resources["Tagger"].GetEntityTypes();

for (var x = 0; x < types.rows.length; x++) {

    var row = types.rows;

    var entities = Resources["EntityServices"].GetEntityList({type: row.name});

    for (var y = 0; y < entities.rows.length; y++) {   

        var entity = entities.rows;

        if (entity.isSystemObject) {

            logger.info("System object : " + entity.name);

                      // Do whatever here

        } else {

            logger.info("Not a system object : " + entity.name);

        }

    }

}

[jacekgra]

Hello Sajid,

Unfortunatelly I do not have resource "Tagger" in my TWX 7.1. Is this something from older version or customization?

[CarlesColl · Accepted solution]

Hi Jacek,

Maybe better you go with this service ( which should be faster than previous one ):

var result = Resources["SearchFunctions"].SpotlightSearch({
  maxItems: 1000000 ,
  types: { items: ["Thing",
                     "ThingShape",
                     "ThingTemplate",
                     "DataShape",
                     "Network",
                     "ModelTagVocabulary",
                     "Mashup",
                     "Menu",
                     "MediaEntity",
                     "StyleDefinition",
                     "StateDefinition",
                     "DataTagVocabulary",
                     "Group",
                     "User",
                     "ApplicationKey",
                     "Resource",
                     "Organization",
                     "Dashboard"
                    ]},
  aspects: { isSystemObject: true },
  maxSearchItems: 1000000
});
for each (row in result.rows) {
    // -- Do Whatever the the row.name entity
}

Pai Chung​ Can you update this article https://support.ptc.com/appserver/cs/view/solution.jsp?n=CS241962 with the above code, I think it's better.

Best Regards,

Carles

[jacekgra]

Thank you Carlos! It works as expected.

[SajidPatel]

Yes, just realized that it is a customized resource. Anyways, Carles's answer is more generic.