Configuring Your User Profile and Settings

Last modified: November 5, 2026

Introduction

Your user account is created by the administrator of your Private Mendix Platform. After you log in for the first time, you can configure your profile settings by clicking the user icon in the top right corner of the screen, and then clicking Manage My Account.

Profile

On the Profile page, you can view general information about yourself. This includes the following information:

Full name (for example, Jane Doe)
User name (for example, jdoe)
Email (for example, jdoe@example.com)
Platform role (for example, System Admin)
Group (for example, Digitalization Project Group)

You can update your full name yourself. To update other information in this section, contact your Private Mendix Platform administrator.

Change Password

In the Change Password tab, you can set a new password for your account. The password must fulfill the following criteria:

Minimum of 8 characters
Contains an uppercase letter
Contains a number
Minimum one special character

Personal Access Tokens

A Personal Access Token (PAT) is used to identify the user account and its corresponding privileges and permissions when interacting with Private Mendix Platform over APIs and other non-GUI interactions, for example, when setting up automated API calls to and from an external service. For more information, see APIs for Private Mendix Platform.

Creating a PAT

On the Personal Access Tokens page, you can create a new PAT. To do so, click New Token, and set the following characteristics of the PAT:

Token Name - Give the PAT a name that reflects where or why you intend to use it.
Expiry Date - Specify the date and time after which the token will expire. As a best practice, never set the expiration time for the token to be more than one year.
Scopes - Select the scopes (authorizations) that you want to grant to your PAT. To reduce risk and impact, follow the least-privilege principle for token scope and use different tokens for different purposes instead of creating one token with a large scope.

After you click Create, the PAT appears on the Personal Access Tokens page. To copy it to your clipboard, click Actions > Copy PAT.

Managing a PAT

To see the scopes of a PAT you have created, click Actions > View Details.

You cannot see the secret token of a PAT here. You can only see that the PAT exists, along with its scopes.

To delete a PAT, click Actions > Delete. This will prevent anyone who has obtained the PAT's secret token from successfully using it.

Service Credentials

On the Service Credentials page, you can view and manage the credentials for various external systems that Private Mendix Platform can connect with. These services include GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and AzureDevOps, used for managing your app projects. Depending on settings configured by the admin, they can automatically provisioned through the integrations or manually configured for the user account.

To create or work on app projects in Private Mendix Platform, you must create an access token in GitHub, GitLab, AzureDevOps, or Bitbucket, and then add it on the Register Credentials screen. The token must have read and write access to a repository where the app project is stored.

Notifications

On the Notification Settings page, you can enable or disable the following notification types for Private Mendix Platform:

Alerts - Notifications about events that require attention, for example, app availability and status
Following - Notifications about comments and reactions to your stories, posts, or projects
Recommendation - Notifications about new Private Mendix Platform releases
Requests/Approvals - Notifications about status changes for your requests, for example, the publication of a Marketplace content item