Web API is failing on SAML enabled environment

Hi priyankag0001,

Calling a web api there are the following methods of authentication possible:

There are three ways to authenticate users when calling a web API:

1. API key authentication
2. Basic authentication
3. Session-based authentication

If you wish to invoke an Appian Web API from another system, you must use either API key or basic authentication

This is an excerpt of the documentation, can be found here: https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/19.2/Web_API_Authentication.html

Hope that helps.

Hi guys,

Thanks for your response, but it's not working with API Key, I have created service account and given viewers right to web API.

and currently my requirement is to call this API from another Appian environment only not from any other system.

What error are you getting?

Some things to check:

• Is the user in the Service Accounts group? You won't be able to use an API key unless they belong to this group
• Make sure the user isn't in the SAML group. This use shouldn't authenticate using SSO.
• How are you adding the API Key to your request? It should be like this:
  • Header: "Appian-API-Key"
  • Value: [API Key]
• What is the Web API accessing (e.g. write to data store, start process, etc.) Does the user account also have access to the associated design objects? The account will need at least viewer privileges to read / write from a data store and initiator privileges to start a process.

What error are you getting?

Some things to check:

• Is the user in the Service Accounts group? You won't be able to use an API key unless they belong to this group
• Make sure the user isn't in the SAML group. This use shouldn't authenticate using SSO.
• How are you adding the API Key to your request? It should be like this:
  • Header: "Appian-API-Key"
  • Value: [API Key]
• What is the Web API accessing (e.g. write to data store, start process, etc.) Does the user account also have access to the associated design objects? The account will need at least viewer privileges to read / write from a data store and initiator privileges to start a process.

Thanks Peter. It's worked. I had not added service account into the security group of datastore.