How to generate PAT tokens in Atlanssan Jira Cloud

[Vani Rudraraju]

Hi,
As part of  migration from Jira boards to Azure we have to give PAT token in commant prompt, but i am unable to create it as i am not getting any option for personal access token in Profile or settings, could you please let us know how can we create PAT tokens

[Marc - Devoteam]

HI @Vani Rudraraju 

Welcome to the community.

See the documentation, manage-api-tokens-for-your-atlassian-account 

[Vani Rudraraju]

API token i am able to create but i need PAT token( Personal access token).
if we use API token we are getting below error. could you please let me know is this error because of level of access or we cont be able to use API tokens in migrator tool?

"] Retrieving Jira fields...
[E][16:05:31] Failed to retrieve fields from Jira (Response was not recognized as JSON). This usually indicates a problem with authentication or authorization. Check your Jira credentials and permissions.
[System.AggregateException] System.AggregateException: One or more errors occurred. (Error Message: The SSL connection could not be established, see inner exception.)
---> System.InvalidOperationException: Error Message: The SSL connection could not be established, see inner exception.
at Atlassian.Jira.Remote.JiraRestClient.GetValidJsonFromResponse(IRestRequest request, IRestResponse response)
at Atlassian.Jira.Remote.JiraRestClient.ExecuteRequestAsync(Method method, String resource, Object requestBody, CancellationToken token)
at Atlassian.Jira.Remote.JiraRestClient.ExecuteRequestAsync[T](Method method, String resource, Object requestBody, CancellationToken token)

[Marc - Devoteam]

Hi @Vani Rudraraju 

The manual I gave you is to create a PAT, it based on your Atlassian account.

But related to permission, can you access Jira and access the projects where the issues are in?

[Vani Rudraraju]

Hi Marc,
this Guide is for to create API token, but we need to create PAT token, can you please let me know how to create PAT token

[Marc - Devoteam]

This is a PAT Atlassian toke, its based on your Atlassian account.

Atlassian has API tokens baed on the instance, they can only be made by org or site admins and tokens based on a user (PAT).

To use a token and get information form the system, you still need permissions on the projects in Jira where the information resides in.

If you don't have permissions on projects, the API call you make to get date will fail.

[Vani Rudraraju]

Thank you Marc, i will connect with Admin