Securely use personal credentials even in collaborative work
Available in: 
pSeven Enterprise v2025.02
In our daily engineering routines, we often use external resources, like:
- remote machines for specific simulation tools;
- HPC servers to offload heavy tasks;
- PLM and SPDM systems to get inputs or store results;
- other databases and web-services to retrieve data;
- etc.
And all of those resources may be used in automated workflows. Despite being different in purpose, they all have something in common – the user needs to provide credentials to access them: passwords, authentication keys etc.
pSeven Enterprise provides not only secure mechanics to store credentials but also allows to use them in the connector blocks in the workflows. Dedicated “Secret” datatype allows users to simply type their personal credentials as a string or select a previously used values that are stored in personal protected vaults.
However, the collaborative nature of pSeven Enterprise implies even more control over such settings. Imagine that you share a workflow with such credentials with your colleague – you not only don’t want him to see your password (even if it's encrypted) and username, but you also want to force him to specify his own.
With the Personal Parameter (PP) setting you can mark any port of any block as your private setting and anyone who works with the same workflow in the shared mode will be forced to specify his own values for his own runs. Everyone will see and use only his own values, while using the same shared workflow!