role-element-assl.md

title	Role Element (ASSL) | Microsoft Docs
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apiname	Role Element
apilocation	http://schemas.microsoft.com/analysisservices/2003/engine
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Role Element (ASSL)

Contains information about a security role.

Syntax

  
<Roles>  
      <Role>  
      <Name>...</Name>  
      <ID>...</ID>  
      <CreatedTimestamp>...</CreateTimestamp>  
      <LastSchemaUpdate>...</LastSchemaUpdate>  
      <Description>...</Description>  
      <Members>...</Members>  
      <Annotations>...</Annotations>  
   </Role>  
</Roles>  

Element Characteristics

Characteristic	Description
Data type and length	None
Default value	None
Cardinality	0-n: Optional element that can occur more than once.

Element Relationships

Relationship	Element
Parent elements	Roles
Child elements	Annotations, CreatedTimestamp, Description, ID, LastSchemaUpdate, Members, Name

Remarks

The definition of the role includes the users that are members of the role.

The corresponding element in the Analysis Management Objects (AMO) object model is xref:Microsoft.AnalysisServices.Role.

See Also

Database Element (ASSL)
Server Element (ASSL)
Objects (ASSL)