As the ADMIN user, you can attach the credential created in Graph Studio to a notebook. You can then access the secret in a Python paragraph.

1. Click open a notebook in the Notebooks page.
2. Click the Credential icon on the top left of the page.

   The Attach credentials window opens as shown:

   
   

   
   Description of the illustration credential_link_nb.png

   
   

   The window displays the currently attached credentials to the notebook. It also allows you to attach a new credential.

3. Click the Attach icon, shown highlighted in the preceding figure.
   The Attach new credential window opens as shown.

   
   
   Description of the illustration attach_new_credential_nb.png
   

4. Enter the Credential Alias and Credential Description.
5. Click Select and choose a secret from the list.
6. Click Attach.
   The newly added credential gets attached to the notebook.
7. Access the secret in a Python paragraph by referencing it using the alias (provided earlier) as shown.

   Caution:

   The following code snippet is for illustrative purposes only. It is recommended that you do not print secrets in plain text in a paragraph output to maintain confidentiality.

   %python
   from ds_interpreter_client.context.ds_context import PyDataStudioContext
    
   ds = PyDataStudioContext()
   print('My secret: ' + ds.get_credential('my_secret'))

   The following shows the output on running the preceding code:

   
   

   
   Description of the illustration credential_python_output.png