You now have the option to use personal access tokens (PATs) in Cinchy, which are alternatives to using passwords for authentication. Similar to Cinchy Bearer Tokens, you can use a Cinchy PAT to call the Cinchy API as your current user, meaning your associated access controls will be honoured as well. Cinchy PATs, however, have an expiration date of up to 1 year. A single user can have up to 5 PATs active at one time. See Authentication for details on using a PAT in lieu of a Bearer token.
From the Cinchy homepage, navigate to your User Settings > Tokens. Any tokens that you make will appear here. You will also be able to see any expired tokens.
Click “Generate New Token”.
Note: You can have up to 5 active (non-expired) tokens at a time. Once you reach that threshold, the “Generate New Token” button will not work.
3. Input the following information about your PAT and click Generate:
Token Name
Description
Expiration
4. Once generated, make sure to copy down the PAT somewhere secure. You will not be able to view the PAT again once you navigate away from this screen.
From the Cinchy homepage, navigate to your User Settings > Tokens. Any tokens that you make will appear here.
Click the “Delete” button next to the applicable PAT.
Cinchy PATs can be used in much the same way that Bearer tokens are used for in API authentication. I.E. in the Authorization header with the value: "Bearer <token>".
You may also wish to review the information on using PATs in Excel or PowerBI.
This page outlines your user preferences.
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Your Cinchy Profile has three (3) components that can be changed from user preferences:
My Photo
My Profile
My Password
To add a photo to your profile, complete the following (Image 1):
From My Network, click the avatar icon
Select My Profile
From the settings page click on the my photo image
Locate and upload your photo
From the settings page in the My Profile section you are able to update the language, region, and time zone (Image 2).
If you do not see the password option in my profile, you must be logging on to Cinchy using Single Sign-On and will not need to update your password within Cinchy.
To change your password, complete the following:
In the Old Password field, enter in your existing password
In the New Password field, enter a new password
In the Confirm New Password field, re-enter in your new password
Your Cinchy password must conform to whatever minimum requirements are set by your administrator.
