This article shows you how to generate a Personal access token (PAT). Personal access tokens are used to log in to Exalate for Azure DevOps.
Note: Make sure that the user generating the PAT belongs to the Project Collection Administrators group. You can check this in Organization Settings → Permissions.
To generate an Azure DevOps personal access token:
- Sign in to your organization in Azure DevOps:
https://dev.azure.com/{yourorganization}
- Navigate to User settings → Personal access tokens.
- Click New token.
- Choose the name for your token, select the organization where you want to use the token, and set the expiration date for the token.
Note: Set the longest expiration period for the token to keep it valid for as long as possible.
- Select the following scopes:
- Work Items (vso.work) READ & WRITE
- Project and Team (vso.project) READ
- User Profile (vso.profile) READ
- Identity (vso.identity) READ
- Member Entitlement Management (vso.memberentitlementmanagement) READ
Note: Without this scope, Exalate is not able to sync work items.
- Click Create.
- Copy the token and save it for reuse in the future.
