This page describes the functional flow and is provided to assist the design of merchant workflows in implementing the InAcademia academic validation service.
ANNOUNCEMENT 30.11.2020:
Release 2.6.0 will be deployed to the customer integration platform this week, and will address errors 8 and 13. As no new feature is planned to be deployed in v2.6.0 (only very minor enhancements to the two error flows as described below), it is planned for deploy to production w/c 14th December. |
High Level Functional flow
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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.Gliffy Diagram
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