bcquality/community/knowledge/security/compose-permission-sets-with-included-sets.md
Jeremy Vyska 47a189e61c Seed community performance and security knowledge
Ports 14 concern-sized articles (8 performance, 6 security) and 25
AL samples from BC Code Intelligence, restructured to BCQuality's v1
schema and layered under /community/knowledge/. Each article is
atomic, under 100 lines, and ships <slug>.good.al and (where the
pattern has a clear anti-example) <slug>.bad.al siblings.

Jesper's microsoft-layer leaves (al-performance-review and
al-security-review) source across every enabled layer via
*/knowledge/<domain>/**, so these additions are picked up by the
existing action skills without any new skill definitions.

Performance (8):
  - use-deleteall-for-filtered-bulk-deletion
  - call-setloadfields-before-filters
  - load-common-fields-before-branching-on-case
  - load-only-primary-key-fields-for-reference-work
  - omit-filter-only-fields-from-setloadfields
  - choose-maintainsiftindex-by-read-write-ratio
  - avoid-growing-globals-in-singleinstance-subscribers
  - order-case-branches-by-frequency

Security (6):
  - classify-every-field-with-dataclassification
  - protect-sensitive-data-in-temporary-tables
  - guard-bulk-operations-with-istemporary
  - compose-permission-sets-with-included-sets
  - do-not-grant-rights-beyond-a-users-entitlement
  - prefer-oauth2-over-api-keys-for-external-http-calls

Graveyard-bound items (not ported; to be captured in a later
/docs/triage-graveyard.md):
  - testfield-performance (soft guidance, low actionability)
  - table-event-batch-operation-impact (keep-event-subscribers-lightweight
    already carries the core insight)
  - Most of /roger-reviewer (AL formatting - frontier-model territory)
  - sift-technology-fundamentals (descriptive, not a citable concern)
  - bc-telemetry-buddy-* (tooling promotion, not guidance)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-19 18:13:32 +02:00

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---
bc-version: [26..28]
domain: security
keywords: [permissionset, includedpermissionsets, assignable, composition, role]
technologies: [al]
countries: [w1]
application-area: [all]
---
# Compose permission sets with IncludedPermissionSets
> **Seed article.** Ported from BC Code Intelligence to seed the community corpus. Community contributors are invited to expand or refine.
## Description
The `IncludedPermissionSets` property lets one AL permission set reference another, composing rights out of smaller building blocks. Combined with `Assignable = false` on the building blocks, an extension can ship focused per-module units (a table-data cluster, an API-access cluster) and assemble role-shaped sets that include them. Adding an object updates one building block, and every role-shaped set that includes it inherits the change automatically — instead of drifting apart across duplicated definitions.
## Best Practice
Break permission grants into small, focused building blocks, one per cohesive concern. Mark the building blocks `Assignable = false` so administrators do not accidentally assign a fragment. Build role-shaped, `Assignable = true` sets that reference the relevant building blocks through `IncludedPermissionSets`. When the extension grows, the structure absorbs the growth without duplicated edits.
See sample: `compose-permission-sets-with-included-sets.good.al`.
## Anti Pattern
Declaring several role-shaped permission sets that each re-enumerate the same object lists. Adding a new table means touching every set by hand; the sets drift apart over time, and subtle authorization bugs appear where one role was updated and a sibling role was not.
See sample: `compose-permission-sets-with-included-sets.bad.al`.