Credential

Credential allows storing the authentication and authorization related information for the Connector to use when trying to communicate with an external system and technology.

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Note that Credential is only used by the Connector. The Credential is not used by the platform to authenticate or authorize client or administrative operations.

The platform provides the Credential Provider API which can be used to implement custom Credential Provider.

Once the Credential is stored on the platform, it becomes available for use by every Connector.

Credential has the following parameters:

Parameter	Description
Name	Name of the `Credential`
`Credential Provider`	Name of `Credential Provider` `Connector`.
`Kind`	`Kind` of the `Credential` implemented by the `Connector`.
`Attributes`	`Attributes` defined by `Connector`implementation and the specific `Kind`.