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FEATURE REQUEST: Asset Created, Added STIGs Allowed CKL Import Options

Open jeremygifford opened this issue 5 months ago • 2 comments

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. It's tempting for users to bulk upload a folder of CKL files without prescreening them for things like old assets, STIGs, or incorrect asset names. More automated screening options integrated within the import process would greatly help in maintaining the target accuracy of collections.

Describe the solution you'd like Similar to how the Importing results table shows 'Created', 'Added STIGs', 'Inserted', 'Updated', 'Rejected' metrics. We would like two new Import Options to be added for whether creating new assets or adding new STIGs for assets is allowed for the import. For example: if 'Allow Asset Creation' Import Option is false, then any operations that rely on that would be rejected.

Describe alternatives you've considered Current plan to work around the problem is to rely on Full collection grant to limit new asset/STIG association creations when bulk importing CKLs. There are a few limitations with this approach, users with Manage or higher grants won't be able to bulk upload with those protections, and current lack of bulk upload GUI option for Full users (ticket #1045 https://github.com/NUWCDIVNPT/stig-manager/pull/1228)

jeremygifford avatar Mar 11 '24 16:03 jeremygifford