How to generate an API token
- ELFAPP Admin
This document will show you how to generate an API token for the Backup Projects for Jira
Step 1
Navigate to this link https://id.atlassian.com/manage-profile/security/api-tokens and click on Create API token, fill up the Label field with a name of your choice and click the “create” button
An API token will be generated for you as shown below. Click on “copy” to copy the API token.
Step 2
After copying the API token from Step 1 above then navigate back to the API configuration page from the left menu bar and paste the API token as shown below
Your final setup should look like the below before submitting the form
Note:
That’s all you need to do, the API token will be validated against your account given that you simultaneously have added an email address to the configuration. Then you should see the token status change to “green” indicating that the account is now able to schedule tasks
Why do we need an API token → We require a personal token to backup and extract projects in CSV format. This resource of the Atlassian API is only permitted based on a user’s token. This also ensures that projects that are being extracted via JQL are only permitted to those users who already have access to it.
If you need to change your API token, please follow the same process to change it. Do that by pasting your new API token on the token form and submit to save.