How we we update the parent_id of a workspace. We need to move some of our workspaces around to restructure https://www.gooddata.com/docs/python-sdk/latest/workspace/workspaces/create_or_update/

Hi Doug, unfortunately you cannot update a workspace’s

id

property or its parent workspace. In this case, you will need to recreate the workspace under the new parent workspace. May I know what's the use case?

We are reorganizing our customers, Splitting them in by Partner Space. Currently they are in 1 and we need to split them into two sub spaces Parent Sub Partent 1 | Sub Parent 2 Customer1 Customer3 Customer2. Customer4

Thank you for sharing your use case. In this case, I would recommend exporting the LDM of the original parent workspace into the new parent workspace in order to recreate the child under this new parent. Please note that as stated previously, modifying a child workspace's parent ID is not an option at the moment.

I know its not possible to switch the partent Hmm, that will not work 100%, I need the metrics too So I'm pulling the declarative workspace and the workspace. Recreating the workspace - different ID. Then I need to push both the LDM and metrics. However, in metrics will it be just the custom ones or ALL, do I need to delete the overlap with the parent?

Your assumption is correct, the metrics would need to be recreated including the custom ones, in such case, you should be able to easily get the metric definitions from the old parent workspace via the API by doing a GET to the endpoint /api/v1/entities/workspaces/{workspaceId}/metrics. You can then use the body result to recreate them in the new child workspace by doing a POST to the same endpoint, more details about the expected body can be found in our API documentation here: https://www.gooddata.com/docs/cloud/api-and-sdk/api/api_reference_all/#operation/createEntity@Metrics

Yes, I already did that, what about permissions etc... How do we copy those over?

WDF (workspace data filters) are part of the LDM, they should carry over and work as expected as long as they are recreated using the same ID's. In any case, since this is sensitive security feature, I recommend double checking this, I haven't had time to test this myself.

Yes I will check that part. However, there is also user permissions etc. Is there anything else I'm forgetting about

User Data Permissions are set a bit differently, You can check if there are any set in the child workspace via this endpoint /api/v1/entities/workspaces/<workspace-id>/userDataFilters/. All in all, WDF and UDF are the two security features that we offer and that will have to recreated in your new workspaces as needed. I recommend checking the differences between the two outlined in our documentation here.

Is there an API way for me to add and remove what groups a user is added to? Basically I want to remove "customer-453" and replace with "customer-453-2"

You can get the groups a user is added to via this API: GET

https://{hostname}/api/v1/entities/users/user_ID?include=userGroups

And then remove the old user group and add the new one with a PUT to this API:

https://{hostname}/api/v1/entities/users/user_ID?include=userGroups

Please make sure to add

Content-Type : application/vnd.gooddata.api+json

as the API header.

only API not SDK?

Regarding the id, thanks for clarifying. That's the data filter ID, not the workspace id, it may or may not share the same name/id as the workspace id:

is that related to the WDF filter?

In that case, yes the screenshot I sent previously is related to WDFs, but I noticed you are rather calling

workspace = sdk.catalog_workspace.get_workspace(workspace_id="123")

in the SDK. The error you are getting is mentioned here: https://www.gooddata.com/docs/python-sdk/latest/workspace/workspaces/create_or_update/ and it relates to the id of the workspace itself. This cannot be updated.

Ok, so the WDF filter DID not transfer. How do I set it with the SDK

The necessary steps can be found in our documentation here: https://www.gooddata.com/docs/python-sdk/latest/workspace/workspace-data-filters/