Managing Affiliated Connections

For customer environments supporting a Client Credentials authentication scheme (OCIM), the affiliated connection requests take place in the OHIP Developer Portal for customers with OPERA Cloud Central and approvals take place within the OHIP (Customer) developer portal.

Approving Affiliated Connections

When an Affiliated Customer submits a new request to add a customer environment, an email notification is sent to all the chain administrators informing them about the new connection. Follow the below steps in the OHIP customer portal to approve the connection request.
  1. From the Developer Portal, click Environments at the top of the page.
  2. Click Affiliated Connections. All the affiliated connections appear in this section.
  3. Search for the affiliated connection that is pending approval.
  4. Search for and select the properties you wish to assign for the Affiliated connection.
  5. Search for and select the properties and view additional environment details such as client ID, client secret, and gateway URL.
  6. Click Next.
  7. Once you have reviewed the Summary, including properties, client details (client ID, client secret, gateway URL), customer description, and enterprise ID, click Approve to approve the affiliated connection request. The status of the affiliated connection request should change to "Approved" in both the customer's portal.
  8. An email notification is sent to the affiliated customer informing them about the approval of the connection request.

Rejecting Affiliated Connections

When an Affiliated Customer submits a new request to add a customer environment, follow the below steps in the OHIP customer portal to reject the connection request.
  1. From the Developer Portal, click Environments at the top of the page.
  2. Click Affiliated Connections. All the affiliated connections appear in this section.
  3. Search for the affiliated connection that is pending approval.
  4. Click Reject to reject the affiliated connection request. The status of the affiliated connection request should change to "Rejected" in the Environment section of the customers portal.

An email notification is sent to the affiliated customer informing them about the rejection of the connection request.

Revoking Affiliated Connections

To revoke access to approved affiliated connections:
  1. From the Developer Portal, click Environments at the top of the page.
  2. Click Affiliated Connections. All the affiliated connections appear in this section.
  3. Search for the affiliated connection that is already approved.
  4. Click Revoke Access to revoke the access of the affiliated connection. The status of the affiliated connection request should change to "Rejected" in the Environment section of both the customers portal.

An email notification is sent to the affiliated customer informing them that their access is revoked.

Editing Affiliated Connections

To edit an approved affiliated connection:
  1. From the Developer Portal, click Environments at the top of the page.
  2. Click Affiliated Connections. All the affiliated connections appear in this section.
  3. Search for the affiliated connection that is already approved.
  4. Click View Details.
  5. In the Assigned Details section, click Edit.

    You can amend the permissions for the affiliated environment by updating either property access. You can also review customer descriptions and enterprise IDs within this view.

  6. Select the hotels the affiliated connection may access and then click Update.

The affiliated customer can see the updated list of hotels in the developer portal.

Parent topic: Environments (Gateways and Credentials) with Client Credentials Authentication Scheme (OCIM)