Now let’s take a look at the authentication tab.
Here we see the authentication tab which presents a number of different options depending on what authentication type you’re using.
First, you can select the authentication type. We’re using OAuth2 in this example, as you can see, by default, we have an unnamed OAuth2 authentication types set up here.
If you need to try a different HTTP header, and if the API key, you can enter that in.
By default, it will just be authorization that you can change this if there’s an Americanization of it. If it’s spelt English, if it’s x API key, for example, it’s up to you.
You can also provide a location to get the access token and pull that down.
Two main things that we need to fill in are the authorised URL and the access token URL.
If you want to provide client ID and secret, let’s say this is an internal application. And you don’t want anyone else to have to fill in the information you can provide it here, this essentially hard codes, the client ID the client secret.
Now, what you might have noticed is I have this unnamed OAuth2 authentication type here. And you may have seen this button that says I can add an authentication method. But I click on this, I can then type in the name of the authentication type just so that I know what it is that’s going on. And then from within Cyclr, I have a bunch of different options, from something as simple as an API key to Netsuites own OAuth one or even client certificates if you wish to use them.
So you can have multiple types of authentication set up for the same connector.
As happens in the real world. Sometimes there are many different ways to connect and authenticate yourself against an API. And Cyclr allows you to handle that now when you instal it, you’ll be asked which type of authentication you wish to use. And that version of the connector will now be locked in to use that type of authentication. So if you want, let’s say I have OAuth2 in one instance. And I want to now use the API key version of the connector, I would have to install the connector again.
When all your changes are done, you can just click Save.
And if you want to delete anything, that’s not a default way of authenticating, then you just hit the little delete icon on the right hand side and it gets rid of it.