This page describes the functional flow and is provided to assist the design of merchant workflows in implementing the InAcademia academic validation service.
| ANNOUNCEMENT 3011.2020: Release 2.5.0 deploys enhancements to the error flow, and is released to the production environment today as previously announced at the confirmed time of 22:00 UTC. Please refer to errors 9, 10 and 11 in the diagrams below. For the purposes of comparison, documentation is provided for the error flow as built in version 2.4.0 as well as the enhancements built in version 2.5.0, and to follow in version 2.6.0. It is strongly recommended that workflows are updated to respond to these errors. Release 2.6.0 will be deployed to the customer integration platform this week, and will address errors 8 and 13. |
High Level Functional flow
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- 6.5 (see SVS 4.6.5) Introduces support for pyop 3.4.2 and minor enhancements deployed to production 20th November 2025
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Detailed functional flow
In the following diagram, light blue represents the merchant web shop, grey blue is InAcademia functionality. Institutional Identity Provider is represented in Green.
The figure presents the 'happy' flow, ending in a successful validation, as displayed in green, as well the possible error scenarios represented in red or orange. The error situation where a institutional IdP, or the merchant redirect URL component cannot be reached because of network issues or similar is not take into account as that is out are out of scope and control for InAcademia and will always yield an some error in the users browser. The InAcademia service is part of a continuing development programme and additional features planned for the future are also captured below.
Entry Flow with Errors v4.6.5
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| displayName | InAcademia Entry Flow (As-Built V3) 3.3.0 - PUBLIC |
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| name | InAcademia Entry Flow (As-Built V3) 3.3.0 - PUBLIC |
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| pagePin | 43 |
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Response Flow
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v4.6.5
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| displayName | InAcademia Response Flow (V3) - PUBLIC |
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| name | InAcademia Response Flow (V3) Copy |
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| pagePin | 5 |
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Response Flow for release 2.6.0 (including updates from 2.5.0)
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| name | InAcademia Response Flow 24.60.0 - PUBLIC |
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| pagePin | 13 |
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