Is it possible to search by Role Tags

[ananth.tatachar.private]

Hi Team,

Is it possible to search by the role tags all the projects they are used in?
Please let me know if you need more clarification on this.

[Kenneth_Bates]

Hi @ananth.tatachar.private,

Thanks for getting in touch! This is certainly possible, though not through the UI and would require going through the API to get this information. Another user has recently posted a C# script to get this information which I’ll paste below (referencing this thread):

// find the projects that reference the roles used by particular machines

// initialize endpoint and repo
var endpoint = new OctopusServerEndpoint(Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("OCTOPUS_SERVER"), Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("OCTOPUS_CLI_API_KEY"));
var repository = new OctopusRepository(endpoint);

// get the machines we are interested in
string[] machineNames = {"MTLWPVSCWEB11","MTLWPVSCWEB12","MTLWPVSCWEB13"};
var machines = repository.Machines.FindByNames(machineNames);

// get all the roles used by those machines
var roles = machines.SelectMany(m => m.Roles).Distinct();
Debug.WriteLine($"Looking for projects using these roles: [{String.Join(",",roles)}]");
Debug.WriteLine("----")

// get all the project groups to a dictionary for later lookup
var projGroups = repository.ProjectGroups.FindAll().ToDictionary(pg => pg.Id);

// get all the projects and iterate over them
var projs = repository.Projects.FindAll();
foreach (var p in projs) {
    // fetch the project's current deployment process
	var d = repository.DeploymentProcesses.Get(p.DeploymentProcessId);
	// see if the deployment process has any steps scoped to the roles of interest
	if (d.Steps.Any(st => st.Properties.ContainsKey("Octopus.Action.TargetRoles") && roles.Contains(st.Properties["Octopus.Action.TargetRoles"].Value)))
	{
		// output the project name and the group it's in
		Debug.WriteLine($"{p.Name} : {projGroups[p.ProjectGroupId].Name}");
	}
}

I hope this helps! Don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions or concerns moving forward.

Best regards,

Kenny

[ananth.tatachar.private]

Thanks a lot Kenny. I will try it out and get back to you.
Thanks again.