# Automatic Configurations

Secrets are encrypted variables created for protecting your confidential data. After finishing the settings of your secret, you can use it with the format `{{ secret. keyname }}` in workflows. The value of secrets will not be displayed explicitly in YAML files or any code so that your data security will be guaranteed when using automatic workflows in Action.

### Access your secrets <a href="#accessing-your-secrets" id="accessing-your-secrets"></a>

* Entering the Dataset Overview page, click **Actions** to the Action Details page, and then click **Configure** to create or manage your secret.

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* You can also click **Settings** on the Datasets Overview page, then click **Action Configuration** to manage your secrets.

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### Create Your Secrets

* Click **Create Secret**
* Type a name and enter the value for your secret in the input boxes.

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* Then click **Create** to finish the setting.

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### Name Your Secrets <a href="#naming-your-secrets" id="naming-your-secrets"></a>

* Secret names can only contain alphanumeric characters (\[a-z], \[A-Z], \[0-9]) or underscores (\_). Spaces and other special characters are not allowed.
* Secret names must not start with a number.
* Secret names are case-sensitive.
* Secret names must be unique at the level they are created at. (For example, a secret created for a dataset must have a unique name in this dataset.)
* Secret names can contain a maximum of 40 characters and a minimum 2 characters.
* No limits for the value of a secret.

### Permissions

* Only administrators of a dataset can create, delete, and update secrets for that dataset.
* Members of a dataset can only copy secrets used in that dataset.
* The value of a secret is only displayed during the creation step, after that all users cannot see the explicit value.

### Manage Secrets

* All the secrets will be displayed in the secret management list, including their names, updating time and all the history operations. You can update or delete secrets in this list.

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### Update Secrets

* Select the secret that should be updated from the secret management list, and then click **Update** in the operation bar. Enter a new secret value in the pop-up window. Click **Update** to complete the procedure. The updated secret value will be automatically referenced when you use it the next time.

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### Delete Secrets

* Select the secret that you want to delete from the secret management list and click **Delete** in the operation bar.&#x20;
* Click **Delete** again in the pop-up window to confirm your operation.

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{% endhint %}

### Use Secrets

* To use a secret, you need to go to the secret management list to copy its name.

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* Once the name is copied, you can use it with the format`{{ secret. keyname }}` in the YAML file of a selected workflow.

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