OAuth sign-in

Add an authorisation step to your automated workflows. ThinkAutomation can securely validate users and fire the relevant action(s) both before and after a login as part of a smooth automation sequence.

OAuth sign-in – overview

• This baked-in ThinkAutomation action can be used to obtain an authorization token from an OAuth enabled web API
• The token can then be used on subsequent HTTP GET or POST actions
• Configure by selecting a type – either a ThinkAutomation connected app type, or generic
• For generic OAuth you must then supply an authorization endpoint, token endpoint, client ID, client secret and scope
• Clicking the ‘Sign In’ button begins the process and launches a browser session to complete a sign-in
• You can then select a variable to receive the authorization token
• ThinkAutomation will automatically refresh the authorization token when it expires

OAuth sign-in – use cases

• Authenticate a user before sending an automated account email
• Upload sensitive data to a database after obtaining user consent
• Authorise an application to access an account, then process a transaction
• Get authenticated access to company data to push into a third-party reporting tool
• Plus countless more, depending on your desired use case