Hi,
I got a request from a user who wants API-access, so the question is, how do I grant him this access?
The user says that he needs a user account that can pull projects and project numbers.
Is it a security role that gives him access to this functionality?
If you give users permissions for a public data entity, they can call the OData service.
For example, Projects V2 (ProjProjectV2Entity) is public and read permissions are granted by View projects entity (ProjectEntityView) privilege. This privilege is already assigned to quite a few roles, such as Project assistent or Sales clerk.
I am not a developer myself, so I have limited knowledge in this domain.
I checked the user's security role, and it includes the "View project entity" privilege.
What do you mean by "they can call the OData service". How do they do that? Do we need to grant the user any access?
I would assume that they know how to use the API if they ran into a lack of permissions. If so, you either don't have to care or you can ask them to show it to you.
Note that users normally don't access web APIs directly (although you can query OData services directly in a browser), but rather through Excel, Power Automate and such things.
If they have no idea how to use it, permissions is quite useless to them. Then you should involve someone competent to discuss their requirements with them and suggest a suitable solution.
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