Is ODK API Access even with SSO enabled still available to a Local non-SSO ODK User or Admin?

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From: https://docs.getodk.org/central-install-digital-ocean/#enabling-single-sign-on
"Warning:
Enabling SSO currently disables API access. This means you won't be able to use PowerBI, Excel, ruODK, pyODK or other such tools to directly access data on your server. You'll need to export CSVs instead."

So will ODK API Access still work for a Local ODK User or Admin (i.e. non-SSO) even with SSO enabled or not?

Thanks and Regards,
Matthew Sheeran

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As of today, enabling SSO disables API access for all Web Users. Addressing this limitation is high on our priority list.

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Has there been any change on this?

It would be nice if you could at least have some admin access via the API.

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None yet, sorry! We've been doing a lot of research and design work on the access and user model in Central in general and we're reluctant to introduce an API key or service account concept before we have a more concrete sense of how it fits into the future of users.

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Hey,

I’m wondering if there have been any recent developments around SSO support and API access.

My org is Cyber Essentials Plus accredited, and from April onwards SSO is a mandatory requirement for all cloud‑based systems. At the moment, my workflow relies heavily on the ODK API for moving data between systems, so this could be a major headache for me.

Cheers,

Stu

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