When and how to use a Service account

[henk_stobbe]

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

[p_devulapalli · Accepted solution]

@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 

[AntonPineiro · Accepted solution]

Hi,

I use it for deploy configuration using Monaco.

OAuth client is linked to a service account.

Best regards