Improve sfdx force:user:permset:assign to accept Permission Set Groups

[AllanOricil]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. No

What are you trying to do Assign permission set groups using sfdx force:user:permset:assign

Describe the solution you'd like Improve sfdx force:user:permset:assign to accept permission set groups, or create a new command or flag

Describe alternatives you've considered I can pass a list of permission sets to the current command

Additional context N/A

[uip-robot-zz]

This issue has been linked to a new work item: W-9517915

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[docbill]

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Can you let us know the status of this?

I'm working in a devbox designing a brand new implementation of our org. One of our best practices is for the 95% usage cases, assign permission groups to users, not permission sets. I'm trying to create a few hundred inactive users to test out our territory structure. Is there a way with the tool yet to do this? Or do I have to do something more tranditional like a workbench csv file load.

I would prefer to use the sfdx type solution, as my script could be reusable for scratch orgs and such in the future.

[docbill]

Obviously you'd want a brand new flag. As a permission set, and permission group may have the same name.

[mkhokhlov]

It appears you can pass a permission set group name to force:user:permset:assign and it just works. I just did so with sfdx-cli 7.146.1.

[AllanOricil]

Maybe they have implemented it already. Good to know. Thanks for sharing

[douglascayers]

It appears you can pass a permission set group name to force:user:permset:assign and it just works. I just did so with sfdx-cli 7.146.1.

Hrmm.. I get an error if I specify a permission set group name.

I'm using sfdx-cli/7.166.1 darwin-x64 node-v16.17.0

$ sfdx force:user:permset:assign -u [email protected] -n PermSetGroupName

=== Failures

 Username         Error Message                                             
 ──────────────── ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 
 [email protected] entity type cannot be inserted: Permission Set Assignment 

[AllanOricil]

[RodEsp]

Hey everyone, just chiming in here to say that this should be possible.

We just ran a quick test by creating a new permission set group and passing it into sfdx force:user:permset:assign -n <permsetGroup> and it worked just fine.

This was on version 7.179.0 of sfdx.

@AllanOricil if you can give us more info about what you're seeing maybe we can figure out if there's a bug or something else going on.

[AllanOricil]

Hey everyone, just chiming in here to say that this should be possible.

We just ran a quick test by creating a new permission set group and passing it into sfdx force:user:permset:assign -n <permsetGroup> and it worked just fine.

This was on version 7.179.0 of sfdx.

@AllanOricil if you can give us more info about what you're seeing maybe we can figure out if there's a bug or something else going on.

@RodEsp I actually did not test it again. But If you say it works, I belive in you 👍

[douglascayers]

Confirmed, the CLI supports assigning users to permission set groups and permission sets. I last tried several weeks ago and it wasn't working but seems to be working now. Thanks!

sfdx-cli/7.179.0 darwin-x64 node-v18.12.1