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To setup your Canny app in Refold for API Key authentication, you will need the following credentials from your Canny account:
  • API Key

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Pre-requisites

  1. Canny account with admin access.
If you don’t have admin access to your Canny account, you’ll need to request it from your account administrator to access the API key.

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Getting your API Key from Canny

To retrieve your Canny API Key and configure it in Refold, please follow the steps mentioned below:
  1. Log in to your Canny account at https://canny.io/login.
  2. Navigate to Settings in the sidebar, then click on API under the organisation section.
Navigation for API Key setup
  1. In the API settings page, you will find your Secret API Key.
  2. Copy the API key into your clipboard.
  3. Store this API Key securely - it provides full access to your Canny data.
Getting API Key Credentials
Your API Key is secret! Store it securely on your server and never share it publicly. Anyone with access to this key can read and modify your Canny data.

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Configuring credentials in Refold

App settings page lets you configure the authentication settings for an API Key based application. For your customers to provide you authorization to access their data, they would need to provide their API Key. This page lets you set up your application credentials. Setting up application API Key credentials Provide the acquired API Key under Settings of the app and save it.

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Actions and triggers

Once the above setup is completed, you can create orchestrations of your use-cases using Canny actions and triggers. Following are the set of Canny actions and triggers supported by Refold.
  1. Update Company - Update an existing company’s details in Canny.
  2. Delete Company - Delete an existing company in Canny.
  1. Create Post - Create a new post on a board in Canny.
  2. Update Post - Update an existing post’s details in Canny.
  3. List Posts - Get a list of posts with filtering and sorting options in Canny.
  4. Delete Post - Delete an existing post in Canny.
  1. Create Tag - Create a new tag for a board in Canny.
  2. List Tags - Get a list of tags for a board in Canny.
  1. Create User - Create a new user in Canny.
  2. Retrieve User - Retrieve the details of an existing user by their ID in Canny.
  3. List Users - Get a list of users in Canny.
  4. Delete User - Delete an existing user in Canny.
  1. HTTP Request - Make HTTP API calls to any Canny documented REST APIs.
  2. Incremental Sync - Sync data incrementally from Canny.