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source: https://qlik.dev/changelog/86-m2m-access-personal-metadata/
last_updated: 2025-08-22T08:35:38Z
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# Access personal metadata and private resources using OAuth M2M

The `admin.apps` scope has additional permissions granting OAuth tokens
generated by OAuth bot accounts (created by OAuth machine-to-machine clients) with
this scope applied non-interactive access to the personal and private resources
end users in tenants can create and curate.

This update helps administrators address several management use cases involving
resources in personal spaces and unpublished content in Qlik Sense applications.

Situations where this new ability is helpful include:

- Access orphaned resources and content when users are removed from the tenant.
- Change ownership from one user's personal space to another.
- Programmatically publish content in Qlik Sense applications located in shared
  or managed spaces.
- Extract private content from Qlik Sense applications in managed spaces for
  app lifecycle management, such as promoting content to base-level.
- Backup and version control resource metadata, such as Qlik Sense applications,
  automations, data pipeline definitions, and more.
- Migrating resources and content from client-managed Qlik Sense to Qlik Cloud
  Analytics, or between Qlik Cloud tenants.

You can use this capability with qlik-cli, qlik-api, or calling tenant REST apis
directly. This capability is not available in Qlik Cloud graphical user
interfaces.

To learn more about how to configure and use this capability, please see the
tutorial
on [managing personal and private content](https://qlik.dev/manage/platform-operations/private-content-bots).