Action: Break item permission inheritance

Break item permission inheritance action allows automatically break inheritance permissions for the specified list item/document from their parent (list, document, etc.). Further you can directly assign/add new permission using action Add item permissions.

Example of configuration on the current site

For more information about Action Builder read Action Builder introduction article.

To configure the action the additional properties should be specified. 

Configuration

Property	Required	Type	Description
List or Library	yes	Choice	Specify the list or the library of the item/document you want to break permission inheritance for.
Item Id	yes	String	Specify the Item ID or expression to be evaluated as ID of an item.
Copy role assigments	no	Choice	Specify whether to copy the role assignments from the parent: - Yes - the item will inherit role assignments from its parent.  - No - all permission assignments will be cleared. - Enter Custom Value - Expression based value (the result should return true of false)
Clear subscopes	no	Choice	Specify Clear subscopes parameter (if parent item a folder): - Yes -  the role assignments for all child objects will be cleared and will inherit role assignments from the parent. - No - The role assignments for all child objects remain unchanged. - Enter Custom Value - Expression based value (the result should return true of false)

Availability

Modern Forms	List Actions	Scheduled/Triggered Actions
-	-	✓*

* In Scheduled/Triggered actions only breaking item permissions inheritance to the list or library from the current site is available.

Output

Output Parameter	Type	Description
ItemID	String	Returns the Id of the item the inheritance permissions were broken for

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