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Connecting and Permissions

Connect to the Arena API service by providing your Arena login credentials (username and password) in a Log In request. The API service returns an access token which must be included in the header of all subsequent requests for the session. A session will timeout 90 minutes after the last action and the token will thereafter be invalid.

The privileges of a user logging into the API service are the same as when logging into Arena. That is, a read-only user cannot write any information to a PLM workspace, so a read-only user cannot write any information to the workspace via the API service. All requests (except Healthcheck and Log Out) are subject to privilege verification.

  • Use a dedicated user to access the Arena API. And more broadly, use a dedicated user for each integration connected to your Arena workspace.
  • Don’t log in twice as the same user at the same time. Logging in a second time will cancel the first session and the first access token will not work.
  • Log in to the API, perform whatever actions you desire, then log out of the API when you are done.

For all Arena integrations, Arena requires at least Java 8 Update 101 (8u101) or more recent versions.

Access Privileges

  1. Only Employee and Partner users can access the Arena REST API. Supplier users do not have access privileges.
  2. If your company uses Single Sign-On (SSO) to access Arena, you should use a dedicated Integration or Partner user to access the Arena REST API.