Permissions: create

Requires authorization

Creates a user's account & container permissions. Try it now or see an example.

Request

HTTP request

POST https://www.googleapis.com/tagmanager/v1/accounts/accountId/permissions

Parameters

Parameter name Value Description
Path parameters
accountId string The GTM Account ID.

Authorization

This request requires authorization with the following scope (read more about authentication and authorization).

Scope
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/tagmanager.manage.users

Request body

In the request body, supply a Permissions resource with the following properties:

Property name Value Description Notes
Required Properties
accountAccess nested object GTM Account access permissions. writable
accountAccess.permission[] list List of Account permissions. Valid account permissions are read and manage. writable
emailAddress string User's email address. writable
Optional Properties
containerAccess[] list GTM Container access permissions. writable
containerAccess[].containerId string GTM Container ID. writable
containerAccess[].permission[] list List of Container permissions. Valid container permissions are: read, edit, delete, publish. writable

Response

If successful, this method returns a Permissions resource in the response body.

Examples

Note: The code examples available for this method do not represent all supported programming languages (see the client libraries page for a list of supported languages).

Java

Uses the Java client library.

/*
 * Note: This code assumes you have an authorized tagmanager service object.
 */

/*
 * This request authorizes a new user to access a GTM account.
 */

// Construct the container access object.
ContainerAccess container = new ContainerAccess();
container.setContainerId("54321");
container.setPermission(Arrays.asList("read"));

// Construct the account access object.
AccountAccess account = new AccountAccess();
account.setPermission(Arrays.asList("read"));

// Construct the user access object.
UserAccess userAccess = new UserAccess();
userAccess.setEmailAddress("username@example.com");
userAccess.setAccountAccess(account);
userAccess.setContainerAccess(Arrays.asList(container));

try {
  UserAccess response = tagmanager.accounts().
      permissions().create("12345", userAccess).execute();
} catch (GoogleJsonResponseException e) {
  System.err.println("There was a service error: "
      + e.getDetails().getCode() + " : "
      + e.getDetails().getMessage());
}


/*
 * The results of the create method are stored in the response object.
 * The following code shows how to access the created id.
 */
System.out.println("Permissions Id = " + response.getPermissionId());

Python

Uses the Python client library.

# Note: This code assumes you have an authorized tagmanager service object.

# This request authorizes a new user to access a GTM account.
try:
  permissions = tagmanager.accounts().permissions().create(
      accountId='123456',
      body={
          'emailAddress': 'username@example.com',
          'accountAccess': {
              'permission': [
                  'read'
              ]
          },
          'containerAccess': {
              'containerId': '54321',
              'permission': [
                  'read'
              ]
          }
      }
  ).execute()
except TypeError, error:
  # Handle errors in constructing a query.
  print 'There was an error in constructing your query : %s' % error

except HttpError, error:
  # Handle API errors.
  print ('There was an API error : %s : %s' %
         (error.resp.status, error.resp.reason))

Try it!

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