OAuth Clients for web app

Learn how to register a new oauth client with your Collaboard account.

Introduction

This self-service feature enables you to register new oauth clients with your Collaboard account.

This feature is available for subscription owner and manager. 

This feature is NOT available with the Free version of Collaboard.

Available with v6.5.

Register a new oauth client

Navigate to the Settings page and choose Oauth Clients and click Create Oauth Client.

Enter the requested information and confirm.
Example:

The new oauth client will display in the list:

Client secret

Only needed. if the 3rd party app requires a secret. Should be used by trusted apps only (eg server apps, not single-page web apps). Untrusted apps should use the OAuth2 PKCE flow.

Select the three dot menu and generate a secret:

Copy client ID and secret to the 3rd party application settings to establish an oauth connection.

Use the new oauth client

As indicated above, you need to grab the Client secret and Client ID and copy it to the oauth set up in your 3rd party application.

Example flow with Collaboard for Nextcloud:

  1. Get the Redirect URL from Nextcloud and use it to register your oauth client.
  2. Copy the Client Secret and Client ID you created above to the Nextcloud set up page:

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