Hello, UiPath community!
We want to inform you about an upcoming update to some user settings behavior in Orchestrator, which is meant to help Automation Cloud and Automation Suite admins manage deployments at scale more easily. For Automation Cloud customers in particular, the settings model will automatically change starting November this year, so we encourage you to review the updates below and migrate to the new model at your earliest convenience.
The settings below will start inheriting group settings through a union of privileges model that will make them behave similarly to roles & permissions:
- UI profile settings
- Update policy settings
- Personal automations setup
We heard your feedback regarding how these settings were behaving differently than rules and permissions, so we’re making them inherit their respective groups’ settings through a union of privileges model.
How does the union of privileges model work?
Whenever a group privilege is added or removed, the change will automatically reflect for all users belonging to the respective group.
Users belonging to multiple groups will benefit from the highest level of access conferred by either group they belong to, without individual user settings being able to override group access inheritance. The opposite is also true – if none of the groups a user belongs to confers them a certain privilege, then the user will not have that privilege at all.
To add an additional privilege to a user, it is sufficient to either add them to a group that has that privilege enabled, or edit one of the groups they already belong to and add the new privilege. To remove a certain privilege from a user, you need to remove them from every group granting them that particular privilege, or edit every group and remove that privilege from all of them. Keep in mind that changes to group privileges will instantly reflect for all users belonging to that group.
What are the highest permissions for each setting?
- For UI profile settings – Standard Interface is the highest permission available
- For Update policy settings – Latest version is the highest permission available
- For other settings – Enabled is the highest permission available
When will the new model enter into effect?
Enterprise Automation Cloud customers can migrate once the migration wizard becomes available in the product in August. The migration needs to be completed before November 2024, after which all user settings will follow the new model. Community users will be automatically migrated to the new model in August 2024. Starting November this year, the break inheritance settings model will no longer be available, as announced in the Orchestrator deprecation timeline.
Automation Suite customers will need to review changes and migrate to the new model as part of their upgrade to 2025.10.
We hope this update will allow you to manage user settings more predictably, and are looking forward to your feedback here on the forum, along with what you’d like to see next in terms of access control & management.
Thank you!