Issue with global database Credentials

Hi Folks,

I have to change my password every 6 months and I go through the pain of manually changing the password for different workflows that I run. To have a centralised username and password ( user credentials) would help by not manually changing the password for each workflow - which i might forget and suddenly stops working and I wonder why until I figure that the password needs updated.

I have gone through Save Global Database Credentials in KNIME desktop and set up a global credential that I could pull for different connections from different work flows

AS it can be seen even though I have created a shared link and connected to DB connector, the credentials authentication is hashed grey so I cannot use the shared link.

Could anybody help with this?

Regards

Pio