Setup for using the Kaizala Connectors

  • Article

Personas

  • Developer: In-house or 3rd party developing applications for the organization – who need to integrate Kaizala into the organization’s business processes. Developer does not have access to the end-user while developing the application (differs from an Admin).
  • Admin: User who is part of the end-groups and is an administrator. Is expected to perform group management tasks.
  • User: Kaizala end users

Pre-req to set-up

  • As a developer:
    • An Office365 account
    • A Kaizala registered phone number
    • Dev set-up (any platform) to invoke REST API
  • As an admin
    • An Office365 account
    • A Kaizala registered phone number
    • Admin of a conversation group inside Kaizala with the registered phone number
  • As a user
    • A Kaizala registered phone number
    • Member of a conversation group inside Kaizala with the registered phone number

Set-up steps (Developer & Group admin)

There are four major infrastructure components involved in working with the Kaizala Platform API:

  • Connectors: All 3rd party systems that need to integrate with Kaizala need to be registered with the Kaizala platform as a “Connector” and get API Tokens corresponding to the Connector.

  • Kaizala Management Portal: A portal to register the respective 3rd party Connectors – and provide them access to Kaizala Conversation groups.

  • Token Service: A URL end-point which needs to be called by the 3rd party apps to get Access Tokens.

  • Platform Service: A URL end-point which exposes specific resources to perform various actions inside Kaizala.

  • Step 1: Developer registers a Connector

    • Developer navigates to Kaizala Management Portal @ https://manage.kaiza.la/
    • Log in using an existing Office365 account
    • Register a phone number on the portal by tapping on “Add a Phone Number”
      • Enter Phone number
      • Tap on “Generate PIN”
      • Verify the PIN received via an SMS on the specified phone number
    • Tap on “Connectors” in the left menu
    • Tap on “Add Connector”
    • Register a connector for the 3rd party system that will use the API
      • Enter the name of the Connector and other details. Tap on Continue
      • Select permissions that is intended for the Connector to have access to
      • Tap on Create Connector
    • Note the ID & Secret that get generated and displayed on the portal

  • Step 2: Group Admin “grants” the Connector access to his/her group

    • Admin navigates to Kaizala Management Portal @ https://manage.kaiza.la/
    • Log in using an existing Office365 (SKU TBD) account
    • Register a phone number on the portal by tapping on “Add a Phone Number”
      • Enter Phone number
      • Tap on “Generate PIN”
      • Verify the PIN received via an SMS on the specified phone number
    • Tap on “Groups” in the left menu
    • Tap on the group name which needs to be accessed by the Connector
    • Tap on “Connectors”
    • In the drop-down, select the Connector that you want to grant access to
    • Tap on “Add Connector”
    • Note the Refresh Token that gets generated and displayed on the portal

  • Step 3: Group Admin shares the Refresh Token with the App Developer

    • Admin needs to manually share the refresh token received in Step 2 with the app developer

  • Step 4: App Developer calls the Kaizala Platform Rest API to generate Access Token

    • Developer can now use the Refresh token. a Connector ID and Connector Secret to call the REST API inorder to generate Access Token (more info below)

Next: Generate Access token
More: API Documentation