The new Upload Tool supports Authentication Token (AuthToken) for accessing the Zoho Reports service to upload data.
This allows you to upload data using Upload Tool without exposing your user credentials (your password).
As you might have
already
kn
own,
AuthToken is a permanent user specific authentication token used to authenticate the user to access Zoho Reports service via Upload Tool and API requests. This token is specific to each Zoho service and cannot be interchanged among Zoho services (i.e., the AuthToken generated for Zoho CRM API cannot be used with Zoho Reports API). Generating the AuthToken is a straight forward,
one-time
process. The token will remain valid till it is explicitly removed or regenerated.
Click here to know more on AuthToken.
There are improvisations in the Upload Tool command line parameter options too. Now you can specify User Login Email id, AuthToken and Database Owner Email id as command line parameters in various combinations. To know on these Command line options and on how to use AuthToken to upload data using Upload Tool, refer to the following help documents.