Authorization User Guides Creating Resources

Creating and publishing resources in Altinn Studio

In Altinn Studio Resource admin, you can create resources to use as a basis for access control for services outside of the Altinn Platform.

Prerequisites

You need to have access to resource administration for your organization. See Getting started guide

Step 1 Create Resource

Create Resource

The ID given for resource will be the one used in Altinn API for checking access

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Resource Type

For external resources, the type will be generic access resource.

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Title

The title will be shown in Access Management and in service catalogues like data.altinn.no

You need to define the title in bokmål, nynorsk and english.

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Description

The description will be shown in Access Management and in service catalogues like data.altinn.no

You need to define the description in bokmål, nynorsk and english.

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Delegation description

If the resource should be able to be delegated as resource delegation you need to enable the delegation and set delegation description in bokmål, nynorsk and english.

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Keywords

Keywords can be set for help. Currently not used but might be used for different service catalogues later

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Status

The status of the service that the resource is pointing to

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User types

Defines which types of user that can access. This settings does might be used for filtering at a later point. Currently this is just information.

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Party tyoe

Defines what type of party the service is targeting. Might be used for filtering in service catalogue in a later stage.

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Contact information

Contact information for the service. Might be presented in service cataloge on a later stage.

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Create Policy

When resource is created you need to define the policy. The policy needs to contain a minimum of 1 rule.

Each rule contains of resource, subject and action

Resource

Define the resource for the rule

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Action

Define the action for the rule

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Subject

Define the subject for the role. You can choose amongst ER roles, Altinn Roles, and Access Packages(todo)

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Publish

When you have finished setting the resource settings and policy you can publish. Before publish you need to set a new version ID and commit changes to the resource repository.

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Verify

When published the resource is avaiable on the search API in Resource Registry.

Example Resource from guide. https://platform.tt02.altinn.no/resourceregistry/api/v1/resource/ekstern-tjeneste-portal Policy for Example resource from this guide https://platform.tt02.altinn.no/resourceregistry/api/v1/resource/ekstern-tjeneste-portal/policy