topic Re: When and how to use a Service account in Developer Q&A Forum

When and how to use a Service account

henk_stobbe — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 20:03:45 GMT

Hello,

Looking at my workflow it seems I can do this:

So if I can attach a workflow to a group, who needs a service account?

Can someone explain?

KR Henk

Re: When and how to use a Service account

p_devulapalli — Thu, 01 May 2025 00:54:30 GMT

@henk_stobbe service users are best suited for non interactive system communications like triggering a workflow (Actor) where a human intervention may not be needed . You can also assign very specific permissions to service user where as a human user account may have inherited much broader permissions .

As a creator you can still retain the ownership or assign it to a group of users and use the service user as a actor to trigger the workflow

A workflow might break when a human user account is used as a Actor and if he leaves but it will continue to run if its a service user

Re: When and how to use a Service account

AntonPineiro — Thu, 01 May 2025 09:43:14 GMT

Hi,

I use it for deploy configuration using Monaco.

OAuth client is linked to a service account.

Best regards