Bamboo addon - create release fails - API key error

[PeterDanielsIncomm (Peter D Daniels)]

Using the bamboo addon for Octopus deploy, I get these errors:

09-Feb-2019 17:45:52	Publishing database package to ‘http://localhost/nuget/packages’.
09-Feb-2019 17:45:52	Published ‘TestSCA.1.1.0-build17 SQL Change Automation Build Artifact’ to ‘http://localhost/nuget/packages’.
09-Feb-2019 17:45:53	Octopus Deploy Command Line Tool, version 4.45.0
09-Feb-2019 17:45:53
09-Feb-2019 17:45:53	Detected automation environment: “Bamboo”
09-Feb-2019 17:45:53	The API key you provided was not valid and doesn’t start with “API-” as expected. Please use the entire API key which should look something like this “API-…”. For instructions on finding your API key, please visit: http://g.octopushq.com/ApiKey
09-Feb-2019 17:45:53	Exit code: -5

I am using the exact same API key that I am using for the publish task, and I’ve copied the key several times into the create-release task, but it keeps giving me this error.
Ideas?

[PeterDanielsIncomm (Peter D Daniels)]

Oddly, I tried one more time by copying it from my password manager and it worked. Confused - wondering if it was erroring because it was being copied from a word doc and in bold. Perhpas it needs to be plain text?

[Kenneth_Bates]

Hi Peter,

Thanks for getting in touch! It’s possible it was because it was copied from a word doc in bold, or maybe the prefix API- in the API key wasn’t included? Either way, great to hear you got it resolved! Don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions or concerns moving forward.

Best regards,

Kenny