Inherit from parent not working

[Philippe]

I’ve made a collection and added the oath2.0 authorization, this works.

I’ve added a request and set the authorization to inherit from the parent, but when I run the request I get the error:

{
“error”: {
“code”: “InvalidAuthenticationToken”,
“message”: “Access token is empty.”,
“innerError”: {
“date”: “2023-04-07T09:26:22”,
“request-id”: “f1030c0e-8282-44f5-ac4f-3acc65d4146d”,
“client-request-id”: “f1030c0e-8282-44f5-ac4f-3acc65d4146d”
}
}
}

When I change the authorization to “Bearer token” and copy paste the token from the collection, the request works.

What am I missing?

The request is a simple MS Graph request: https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me

This is the authorization on collection level:

And the structure:

[w4dd325]

Hi @Philippe

Is it possible to share a screenshot of how you have configured your auth (changing sensitive values to xxxxx or something like that) … and also of the collection / folder structure you are using?

[Philippe]

Sure, I’ve added it to my original post.

[w4dd325]

At the top of your screenshot, above where it says “token expired”, are there are “available” tokens?

It’s been a little while since I played with this, but if there are no available tokens, I think you have to refresh the token at the top, then once a token exists it should auto-refresh when you send requests.

(I think)

[Philippe]

It said expired because I left it for a while, even when I press refresh and use token, the request still gives me the same error message.

[w4dd325]

In the headers tab of the ‘mailFolders’ API call, do you see the token being passed in the header?

It should be greyed out as it would be an auto-generated header, but you should see the key/value pair.

[w4dd325]

This might help… (Auth is 2 minutes in)

Getting started with Microsoft Graph Postman workspace

[Philippe]

This is what I see in the headers:

I do see the token in the params:

The video didn’t help.

[Philippe]

Found the solution, “Add auth data to” was set to “Request URL”

Once I changed it to “Request headers” it works like a charm.

@w4dd325 Thanks for the help!

[w4dd325]

Glad you resolved your issue