REST API URL 401 Unauthorized

Products

• Clarity PPM On Premise
• Clarity PPM SaaS

Issue/Introduction

You are trying to access the below URL REST API in Postman:

http://<servername:port>/ppm/rest/v1

and it does not work.

However you are able to open the below link

http://<servername:port>/niku/rest/describe/index.html

Here is what you see:

Environment

Release : Any

Resolution

The reason it doesn't work is that it shows 401 Unauthorized.

1. Go to Authorization.
2. Select Basic Auth
3. Enter username/password
4. Try again
   
   Here is how it should look:
   
5. Additionally you cannot access /ppm/rest/v1 directly, you have to specify a request. Try using:

/ppm/rest/v1/projects

The list of other requests you can use is available at: Clarity REST Documentation