Key Features of Management Tokens

Management Tokens provide read-write access to the content of your stack. It is a credential used along with the stack API key to make authorized Content Management API (CMA) requests for managing content of your stack.

Let’s look at the key features of Management Token:

• Stack-level token; not a user-specific token
  An important thing to know about Management Token is that it is not a user-specific token. It’ a stack-level token, and can be used to make authorized CMA by anyone who has access to it.

• Provides access control
  While creating management tokens, you can define if this token can be used to perform just read activities, or both read and write.

• Provision to set expiry
  You can define if the token should have a specific expiry (i.e., expire on a specific date) or not expire at all.

• Custom rate limits
  You can set custom rate limits for a management token, defining the maximum number of read (GET) and write (POST, PUT, DELETE) requests allowed per second.

• Owner/admins can create
  Only the stack owner or admins can create a management token.

• Limitations
  Maximum 30 active management tokens can be live in a stack. Management tokens cannot be used to invite or remove users or add approval-related publish rules. Read more about its limitations.