Create Tokens Required for Concur API Access
Create an app with a company request token to create a refresh token for API access.
Overview
You will learn
- How to create a new app
- How to generate your company request token from the app
- How to create your
credentials.jsonfile using information from the app and the company request token - How to create a refresh token from an API call using the
credentials.jsonfile
Prerequisites
Prerequisites
- SAP Concur instance credentials
- Node.js
- GitHub account
- IDE or text editor
Steps
Step 1
Login to your Concur admin panel
- Login to your Concur admin panel.
- Enter your user ID and click Next.
- Enter your password and click Sign In.
Step 2
Create a new app
- Go to the OAuth 2.0 Application Management screen.
- Click Create new app.
- Fill in all of the required fields and add all of the grants and scopes you have access to.
- Click Submit when the form is completed.
- Copy and paste your Client ID and Client Secret to a text file.
- Click OK when completed.
Step 3
Generate your company request token
- Go to the Company Request Token screen.
- Enter your App ID in the required field and click Submit to generate your company request token.
- Copy/paste the Company UUID and company request token fields to a text file.
- Click OK after you have saved this information to a text file.
Step 4
Setup the Node.js app
- Get the Node.js sample code.
- Open
SampleCode/Tutorial_1/GetRefreshToken.jsin your IDE or text editor.
Step 5
Generate your credentials file
- Type
node GetRefreshToken.jsin terminal to run the app to generate yourcredentials.jsonfile. This generates messages in the terminal that show the credentials object.
- Fill in the empty fields in this file with the information in the credential object.
Step 6
Generate your refresh token
- Run the app again. The app will call the Oauth2 /token endpoint using your credentials and generate your refresh token.
- Check if your credentials were transferred from the JSON file to the credentials object.
- Check for a successful validity check on the credentials object.
- Check for a successful API call. The status code will be 2xx and the refresh token will be one of the refresh token object properties.
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