Using custom token in trigger job to keep visual connection for downstream pipeline

Problem to solve

I would like to trigger a multi-project pipeline using a custom trigger token. That is the user in project A triggers pipeline in project A and a special trigger job want to trigger pipeline in project B. The problem is that user does not have a permission to trigger pipelines in project B. Thus we have a custom token with such permission. We can now use curl to trigger using API but even with --from argument we still have no visual connection between pipelines.

Is there a way to somehow supply custom token directly to torgger job? Sort of:

trigger_job:
  trigger:
    project: project-group/my-downstream-project
    api_token: ??? <-------------------- like this?

Steps to reproduce

Create a trigger job using:

trigger_job:
  trigger:

observe visual connection between pipleines (an arrow pointing to another pipeline, a drop-down list with downstream pipeline job etc)

If we trigger with API:

api_trigger_job:
   script:
      curl --from ..

no such visual connection displayed.

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• GitLab 17.3