Creating or editing an endpoint for Coupa activity

Coupa endpoints provide the configuration information that the Studio, the Integration Appliance and the cloud based IBM App Connect Professional platform use to connect to Coupa. Coupa uses token based authentication mechanism to authenticate and authorize users to perform operations.

About this task

Use this task to create or edit a Coupa endpoint.
Note: Before creating a Coupa endpoint, you need to download and install the Coupa connector.

For information about downloading and installing the connector, see Downloading and installing plug-in connectors

Any changes you make to the Coupa endpoint, including configuration properties, affects all the orchestrations that use that endpoint, as the edits are global, not local.

Procedure

  1. Drag an activity from the Coupa folder under the Activities tab to the Orchestration window. The Summary panel is displayed.
  2. Click Pick Endpoint from the Checklist. The Pick Endpoint panel is displayed.
  3. Click one of the following buttons:
    1. Browse - To select an existing endpoint from Project Explorer. The Project Explorer shows all the endpoints in the project available for the activity. When you select an endpoint, the endpoint properties are displayed in the Pick Endpoint panel.
    2. New - To create a new endpoint. The Create Endpoint window opens.
    3. Edit - To edit the existing endpoint. The Edit Endpoint window opens.
  4. In the Create Endpoint or Edit Endpoint pane, configure the Coupa endpoint as described in the following tables.
    Note: Changing the configuration properties of an endpoint affects all orchestrations that use that endpoint in the project. The edits are global, not local.
  5. Click Test Connection to confirm that the connection details are valid and you are able to connect to the Coupa successfully.
  6. Click OK.

Table: Connection properties

Field Name Description
Host Name Coupa host name
API Key API key generated from Coupa

Note: To generate the API key, refer to the Coupa documentation relating to "Coupa API authentication".

Table: Proxy Connection properties

Field Name Description
Proxy Host Host name of the proxy server
Proxy Port Port number needed to connect to the proxy server
Proxy User Name User name needed to connect to the proxy server
Proxy Password Password needed to connect to the proxy server