> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.refold.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Connect

> Connect to your Canny app for API Key authentication

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

* API Key

### Pre-requisites

1. Canny account with admin access.

<Info>
  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.
</Info>

### 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](https://canny.io/login).
2. Navigate to `Settings` in the sidebar, then click on `API` under the organisation section.

<img height="200" src="https://mintcdn.com/cobalt-55/0aevwz61BprR3SvN/images/Canny/canny_navigation.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=0aevwz61BprR3SvN&q=85&s=3d035b8274eb8b567caad927af5f9794" alt="Navigation for API Key setup" data-path="images/Canny/canny_navigation.png" />

3. In the API settings page, you will find your **Secret API Key**.
4. `Copy` the API key into your clipboard.
5. Store this API Key securely - it provides full access to your Canny data.

<img height="200" src="https://mintcdn.com/cobalt-55/0aevwz61BprR3SvN/images/Canny/canny_credentials.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=0aevwz61BprR3SvN&q=85&s=baf6e2d4e530a8268b568a98d14a4d97" alt="Getting API Key Credentials" data-path="images/Canny/canny_credentials.png" />

<Warning>
  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.
</Warning>

#### 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.

<img height="200" src="https://mintcdn.com/cobalt-55/0aevwz61BprR3SvN/images/Canny/canny_refold.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=0aevwz61BprR3SvN&q=85&s=3645194c48d18ff77257652521b3e5ac" alt="Setting up application API Key credentials" data-path="images/Canny/canny_refold.png" />

Provide the acquired API Key under Settings of the app and save it.

#### 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.

<Tabs>
  <Tab title="Actions">
    <AccordionGroup>
      <Accordion title="Company">
        1. **Update Company** - Update an existing company's details in Canny.
        2. **Delete Company** - Delete an existing company in Canny.
      </Accordion>

      <Accordion title="Post">
        3. **Create Post** - Create a new post on a board in Canny.
        4. **Update Post** - Update an existing post's details in Canny.
        5. **List Posts** - Get a list of posts with filtering and sorting options in Canny.
        6. **Delete Post** - Delete an existing post in Canny.
      </Accordion>

      <Accordion title="Tag">
        7. **Create Tag** - Create a new tag for a board in Canny.
        8. **List Tags** - Get a list of tags for a board in Canny.
      </Accordion>

      <Accordion title="User">
        9. **Create User** - Create a new user in Canny.
        10. **Retrieve User** - Retrieve the details of an existing user by their ID in Canny.
        11. **List Users** - Get a list of users in Canny.
        12. **Delete User** - Delete an existing user in Canny.
      </Accordion>

      <Accordion title="Others">
        13. **HTTP Request** - Make HTTP API calls to any Canny documented REST APIs.
        14. **Incremental Sync** - Sync data incrementally from Canny.
      </Accordion>
    </AccordionGroup>
  </Tab>

  <Tab title="Triggers">
    1. **Post Created** - Triggers when a new post is created in Canny.
    2. **Post Status Changed** - Triggers when a post's status is changed in Canny.
    3. **Comment Created** - Triggers when a new comment is created on a post in Canny.
    4. **Vote Created** - Triggers when a new vote is cast on a post in Canny.
  </Tab>
</Tabs>