Hi
I created a very simple playbook for a task object which is activated when the task is created and is of a specific name.
The playbook only consists of one script to assign the task to a specific group and mark the task as private.
The script only as 2 lines:

task.owner_id = "Some group"
task.private=True

When I look at the task Members tab after the playbook has executed, the task is still in a public state, ie I see the field "Mark task private" with the value Off.
I thought the private field would be a boolean field but this not seems to be the case.
How can I make a task private using a script?

Thank you for your help.


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Pierre Dufresne
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Hi Pierre

The SOAR documentation at this point unfortunately is incomplete.

Even the TaskDTO documentation (https://resilient.localdomain/docs/rest-api/json_TaskDTO.html) provides absolutely no information or any useful information about task privacy.

That said, the way to make a task private is to assign members to it.

When a task has members assigned, it automatically changes its state to "private"

So your script must have something like this

task.members = ['abc@br.ibm.com', 'xyz@ibm.com']

instead of

task.private = True

Also, I am afraid task.private receives a value that is an object, not a boolean, but I have absolutely no idea how this object looks like because the documentation simply does not provide any info about this. However, setting the task members will do the trick.

I hope it helps.

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Leonardo Kenji Shikida
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Hi Leonardo,

Thanks for the tip. It did the trick!

I suppose a boolean value would have been too simple.  :-)
Or there should some obscure reason.

As you said it, the documentation should be more explicit about this. 

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Pierre Dufresne
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Original Message:
Sent: Tue June 28, 2022 08:05 AM
From: Leonardo Kenji Shikida
Subject: Making a task private from a script

Hi Pierre

The SOAR documentation at this point unfortunately is incomplete.

Even the TaskDTO documentation (https://resilient.localdomain/docs/rest-api/json_TaskDTO.html) provides absolutely no information or any useful information about task privacy.

That said, the way to make a task private is to assign members to it.

When a task has members assigned, it automatically changes its state to "private"

So your script must have something like this

task.members = ['abc@br.ibm.com', 'xyz@ibm.com']

instead of

task.private = True

Also, I am afraid task.private receives a value that is an object, not a boolean, but I have absolutely no idea how this object looks like because the documentation simply does not provide any info about this. However, setting the task members will do the trick.

I hope it helps.

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Leonardo Kenji Shikida
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