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Retrieve acl of an object inside a data model

Available since Strategy ONE (August 2025)

This workflow sample demonstrates how to retrieve the object ACL inside a data model, using the REST API with and without a changeset.

info

To get the authorization token needed to execute the request, use POST /api/auth/login.

Get the project ID from GET /api/projects.

tip

Changesets are used in this workflow. For information on how to create and use changesets, see Changesets.

Retrieve acl of an attribute inside a data model​

There is a "Customer Statistics" data model with an "A44F79895E9247719292556AA14373F5" ID. This data model contains a "Customer" attribute with an "B9E7FD5911D3E936C000B3B2D86C964F" ID. You want to get the acl of the "Customer" attribute.

To get the object ACL in your data model, use GET /api/model/dataModels/{dataModelId}/objects/{objectId}/acl.

Sample Request Without Changeset

  • Request Headers
"accept": "application/json"
"X-MSTR-AuthToken": "pisu5dkkutqfblaamdomgr00ch"
"X-MSTR-ProjectID: B7CA92F04B9FAE8D941C3E9B7E0CD754"
  • Curl:
curl -X GET "https://demo.microstrategy.com/MicroStrategyLibrary/api/dataModels/A44F79895E9247719292556AA14373F5/objects/B9E7FD5911D3E936C000B3B2D86C964F/acl?subType=attribute" -H "accept: application/json" -H "X-MSTR-AuthToken: pisu5dkkutqfblaamdomgr00ch" -H "X-MSTR-ProjectID: B7CA92F04B9FAE8D941C3E9B7E0CD754"

Sample Request With Changeset

  • Request Headers
"accept": "application/json"
"X-MSTR-AuthToken": "pisu5dkkutqfblaamdomgr00ch"
"X-MSTR-MS-Changeset": "0E9F01172ECF4BA2BB510F7B9FB4F6E8"
  • Curl:
curl -X GET "https://demo.microstrategy.com/MicroStrategyLibrary/api/dataModels/A44F79895E9247719292556AA14373F5/objects/B9E7FD5911D3E936C000B3B2D86C964F/acl?subType=attribute" -H "accept: application/json" -H "X-MSTR-AuthToken: pisu5dkkutqfblaamdomgr00ch" -H "X-MSTR-MS-Changeset: 0E9F01172ECF4BA2BB510F7B9FB4F6E8"

Sample Response Body:

{
  "acl": {
    "294DEDC011D2F1D56000D98E67019608": {
      "granted": 255,
      "denied": 0,
      "inheritable": false,
      "name": "Public / Guest",
      "subType": "user_group"
    },
    "C82C6B1011D2894CC0009D9F29718E4F": {
      "granted": 45,
      "denied": 16,
      "inheritable": false,
      "name": "Everyone",
      "subType": "user_group"
    },
    "D5ABCBF54937420EC3377FA23857A4DC": {
      "granted": 255,
      "denied": 0,
      "inheritable": false,
      "name": "F40308_automodel",
      "subType": "user"
    }
  }
}

Response Code: 200