# Selecting Security Level in API Key not working 8.3.8

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**Created:** [August 7, 2026, 1:17am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/selecting-security-level-in-api-key-not-working-8-3-8/116689 "2026-08-07T01:17:31Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 7, 2026, 8:30pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/selecting-security-level-in-api-key-not-working-8-3-8/116689/3 "2026-08-07T20:30:08Z")

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What collection (or Deployment Mode) was the Security Level created in? What collection or mode is the Gateway _currently_ in? API Key creation only knows about Security Levels in the current mode of the Gateway. If you've created levels in some other collection/mode, you need to apply them during EDITING of the API Key.

This is a limitation of the UI because we can't know about the levels of the other collections/modes until the user tells us to look in those collections/modes, but the first avenue for a user to specify the collection is when they select it in the split-button during the last step of creation.

When a user opens the edit drawer for a resource, the row being interacted with has a specified collection/mode, and that allows for the Security Level query to specify the collection the key belongs to.

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