---
title: "Core Actions"
slug: "core-actions-1"
description: "This is a list of actions that can be used by RapidIdentity Connect to interact with the core elements of RapidIdentity."
tags: ["RapidIdentity ", "Connect", "Actions", "Core"]
updated: 2022-06-03T19:21:16Z
published: 2022-06-03T19:21:16Z
canonical: "help.rapididentity.com/core-actions-1"
---

> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.rapididentity.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Core Actions

## definePortalConnection

Define a connection to a Portal server and optionally login for a token.

| Property | Value | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| url* | text, expression, variable | The url of the Portal server. |
| username | text, expression, variable | The username for authentication to the Portal server. |
| password | password, string, expression, variable | The password for authentication to the Portal server. |
| login | boolean, expression, variable | Determines whether or not to login for an authentication token. If false, each Portal action will perform a full authentication. Set this to true if you are invoking 2 or more actions within this session. |
| remoteDebug | choice ('OFF', 'DEBUG', 'DEBUG_ALL'), text, expression, variable | Remote Portal request debug logging options. DEBUG: standard debug logging. DEBUG_ALL: extended debug logging (not recommended). |
| options | expression, variable | A record or JavaScript object with a field for each additional option. Currently defined fields are connectTimeout and socketTime which require a numeric value from 1 to 2147483647 (0x7FFFFFFF) that represents the number of milliseconds for the timeout, and 0 representing no timeout. |
| returnVariable | expression, variable | The name of the variable to be assigned to the return value |

```actionscript
connection = definePortalConnection("http://server.company.com",
"testuser1", <Password>, true)
connection = definePortalConnection("http://server.company.com",
"testuser1", <Password>, true, \'DEBUG\')
```

## getPortalIdautoIDForRole

Creates/Retrieves the IdautoID value for a particular Role in LDAP

| Property | Value | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| connection* | expression, variable | the Portal connection definition |
| roleDN* | text, expression, variable | the DN of the Group in question |
| returnVariable | expression, variable | name of the variable to be assigned to the return value |

```actionscript
idautoID = getPortalIdautoIDForGroup(connection,
"CN=My Group,OU=groups,DC=example,DC=com")
```

## getPortalIdautoIDForUser

Creates/Retrieves the IdautoID value for a particular User in LDAP

| Property | Value | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| connection* | expression, variable | the Portal connection definition |
| userDN* | text, expression, variable | the DN of the User in question |
| returnVariable | expression, variable | name of the variable to be assigned to the return value |

```actionscript
idautoID = getPortalIdautoIDForUser(connection,
"CN=Homer Simpson,OU=people,DC=example,DC=com")
```