External Authentication

Overview

The external authentication feature needs to be turned on for each individual Partner.

To do this you will need to navigate to Admin > Partners > Edit Partner and turn on Enable External Authentication of Connectors setting.

With the External Authentication setting enabled, the following becomes available.

Using External Authentication

With Cyclr’s External Authentication feature, you can set connector authentication credentials on individual steps.

You can use different credentials each time the cycle is run, and do not need to authenticate the connector beforehand.

Enable External Authentication

Go to the Step Setup
Go to Advanced Settings
Check the “Use External Authentication” setting
The modal refreshes to display any Parameters related to Authentication
Setup the Parameters like any other field mapping

Normally the third-party provider returns the values when Cyclr’s connector authentication is successful.

With External Authentication, you obtain the values manually and enter them into the newly provided parameters.

Note

External Authentication removes the requirement to authenticate the step’s connector before the Cycle runs. Some other functions within Cyclr, such as testing methods outside of the builder, do require the connector to be authenticated.

Disable External Authentication

To return to using Cyclr for authentication handling, you must:

Remove the previous values provided
Uncheck “Use External Authentication” setting