What is the application user type?

You may have seen an option in a user's settings to set their user type to "Application." This is a special user type that is used with the ItemPath API.

An "Application" user type can generate an Oath2 token that does not expire. Because this is less secure, we recommend this is used only with ItemPath hosted on-premise in a closed network.

We generally recommend using a "user" user type, using the refresh token to generate new access tokens as needed.

If you prefer to avoid having to refresh an expired token, you can generate an application token—a non-expiring access token—using this API call.

An existing user's type can be changed to "application" via an API endpoint. View the call in the API reference here.