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C1 provides identity governance for Discourse. Integrate your Discourse instance with C1 for unified visibility and governance over user access.

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Capabilities

The connector syncs users and groups, and resolves the group membership graph: each group exposes a member entitlement and an owner entitlement, with grants linking groups to the users who belong to or own them.

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Gather Discourse credentials

You need Discourse administrator access to create an API key that can read every user and group.
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In Discourse, go to Admin > API > Keys and click New API Key.
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Give the key a description. For User Level, choose All Users so the key can read every account and group, and set User to an administrator account such as system. Leave the scope as Global (read access is sufficient; the connector never writes).
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Click Save and copy the generated API key. Also note the username you selected — you will provide both when configuring the connector.

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Configure the Discourse connector

Follow these instructions to use a built-in, no-code connector hosted by C1.
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In C1, navigate to Apps > Connectors and click Add connector.
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Search for Discourse and click Add.
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Choose where to add the connector: Create a new app, or Add to an existing app (then select the app).If you’re creating a new app, choose whether to link it to an application discovered from your identity provider: select Yes and pick the IdP application, or No to continue with just the connector.
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Set the connector’s Name and, optionally, a Description.
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Click the pencil icon next to Owners to choose who can configure and manage this connector.
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Click Add. The connector is created and its configuration page opens.
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Find the Settings area of the page and click Edit.
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Enter the Discourse credentials:
  • Discourse Base URL: The origin of your forum, with no trailing slash and no path — for example https://forum.example.com.
  • Discourse API Key: The API key you created.
  • Discourse API Username: The username the key acts on behalf of, such as system for an All Users key.
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Click Save.
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The connector’s label changes to Syncing, followed by Connected. You can view the logs to ensure that information is syncing.
Done. Your Discourse connector is now pulling access data into C1.