Standard API calls with business user authentication

[RubenMinguez]

Dear Experts,

Currently in SAP S/4HANA Cloud we perform calls to standard SAP APIs using communication users as an authentication method.

This causes difficulties in establishing traceability of the business users who execute these calls.

Is there any possibility to perform these standard API calls providing business users as authentication method instead of communication users?

Thanks for the support.

Best regards

[JulianoRomanato]

Hello rminguez.

How are you? I have excluded the Tag "SAP S/4HANA Cloud" and included the Tag "SAP S/4HANA Cloud Extensibility" for this question, as API Calls are an Exclusive Topic of Extensibility.

Regards.

Juliano Romanato.

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[ipjao]

Hello,

[Mathias_R_u_p · Accepted solution]

Hi Ruben,

sure, for majority of S/4HANA's APIs that is possible. E.g. you might leverage principle propagation by using "Oauth 2" based authentication to call a business API.

A starting point can be found here:

https://blogs.sap.com/2018/02/05/deep-dive-8-with-sap-s4hana-cloud-sdk-leverage-principal-propagatio...

Note, ensure to check if the API does support Oauth authentication (which can be found e.g. in the API Hub)

Best
mathias