In the realm of Vince Live, the Connections component plays a vital role in establishing connections with external systems. The process involves the initial step of registering our user with the external system. Once the registration is complete, the external system furnishes essential details such as client secret, token-uri (if applicable), user ID, and password.

These acquired credentials are crucial for the establishment of a connection from the Vince Live application. Leveraging the obtained token, client secret, user ID, and password, our application proceeds to create a connection. This connection serves as a crucial bridge, facilitating seamless communication and data exchange between our application and the external system and it mainly for M3 and Rest API.

Please follow the below steps to create a connection b/w Infor M3 and Vince Live.

Step 1: Log into M3 and navigate to the Navigation menu.

Step 2: Click on "Infor ION API" and select "Authorized Apps" from the left side menu.

Step 3: In the right-side panel, under authorized apps, click on the "+" icon. Enter the app name and set the type to "Backend service."

Step 4: Copy and paste the app name in the description field for consistency.

Step 5: Keep the rest of the form values as default and click on "Save" to create the app.

Step 6: Next step is to create credentials for the authorized app to do that user have to click on the “Download credentials” button.

Step 7: In the dialog box, select “Create a service account” and in the full name text box enter the name of the person that you want to associate with this account. we recommend selecting the system user who has ordinary access to M3 and password policy that has not expired and certain IFS security rules are required for this user, and we can verify them by going to user management security roles screen.

Step 8: Verify necessary roles in the security roles screen and click on the "Download credentials" button.

Step 9: Log into the Vince Live where you want to create the connection and navigate to the hamburger menu in the top menu. Click on "Connection." Step 10: In the connection screen, click on "New Connection."

Step 11: Enter name, alias, and short description. Select "M3" from the system dropdown as we are trying to create connection b/w Vince Live and M3.

Step 12: Choose "Use M3 user ID" and select "OAuth" as the authentication type.

Step 13: Browse and select the credentials file downloaded earlier in M3.

Step 14: Choose "https" as the protocol for security.

Step 15: Select the environment where this connection will be used and click on "Save."

Step 16: The newly created connection will be listed under the Connection Lists screen. To validate this connection, click on the ellipsis and select "Validate Connection". If the connection is valid, a success message will be displayed.

Step 17: Additionally, you can import APIs from M3 that are available in our environment by clicking on "Import APIs" in the ellipsis menu.