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Use Fusion Automation API without PAT

calendar_today July 28, 2026 person adam.nagy domain autodesk

Use Fusion Automation API without PAT adam.nagy 30 Jul 2026 Adam Nagy Share Previously, if you wanted to automate something on another user’s behalf, the user needed to create a PAT (Personal Access Token) and provide it for your app. That’s how the Fusion Configurator sample used to work too - see https://github.com/autodesk-platform-services/aps-configurator-fusion/tree/ac4096f22cc09ae3e8d3bfd0ccba0f8771d6b052 Now you can achieve the same without a PAT , simply using 2LO (2-legged authentication) when starting a work item, plus 3LO (3-legged authentication) passed in as a work item parameter

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