Coupa Connector
Before we explore the Coupa connector – One of the many application connectors provided by Boomi, we should know what it is.
What is Coupa?
Coupa is a cloud platform used to manage all the transactions in an organization across the supply chain, finance, and procurements. It helps businesses manage their spending and is referred to as the Business Spend Management tool.
Coming back to Coupa Connector, as already mentioned, it’s an application connector provided by Boomi to connect to and exchange data from the Coupa platform.
Connector Action:
Using this, one can decide what action needs to be performed over the data in the Coupa platform.
Coupa Connector provides the following actions:
- GET: Used to get a specific record.
- UPDATE: Used to update an existing record.
- CREATE: Used to create a new record.
- EXECUTE: Used to run the process and returns results immediately.
- QUERY: Used to query specific records.
Like every other connector in Boomi, Coupa Connectors also require the Coupa Connection and Coupa operation component to connect to the Coupa platform.
Coupa Connection:
Stores the essential details required for establishing the Boomi-Coupa connectivity. Coupa connector provides two ways to do so:
- API Key – Uses a token to authenticate the user and communicate with the Coupa platform.
- Authentication Type: Set to API key for this type of connection establishment
- URL: Stores the Coupa platform URL
- Token: Stores the token used to authenticate the user login.
- OAuth2.0
- Grant Type: Decides how Boomi would receive the access token for client authentication.
- Client ID: Stores the Coupa client ID for the Coupa instance.
- Client Secret: Stores the Coupa client secret for the Coupa instance.
- Scope: Defines the permission of the user.
- Access Token URL: Stores the token URL to retrieve and refresh tokens.
Coupa Operation:
Defines the action that needs to be performed on a specific Coupa object using the Coupa Connection.
- Object: The Coupa Object against which you want to perform the said action.
- Request Profile: Defines the schema/structure of the request sent to the Coupa platform.
- Response Profile: Defines the schema/structure of the response received from the Coupa platform.
- Tracking Direction: This enables you to choose whether to track the input or output document and display the same in process reporting.
- Return Application Error Response: If selected processing continues and passes the error response to the next component processed as the connection output, otherwise stops the processing and reports an error in process reporting.
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