IFS Cloud integration learning center
Try a common task
Connect a projection function to its implementationFollow the steps and check the expected result.
Examples and checks
Open the example or acceptance worksheetRecord actual results for your release and environment.
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Browse all 23 lessons, guides and procedures in this subject
- Authenticate and get access — Guide
- Choose an integration approach — Guide
- Clean up Dataverse integration test data safely — Guide
- Connect a projection function to its implementation — Worked procedure
- Connect Power Apps to IFS Cloud APIs — Guide
- Create integration XML with Oracle PL/SQL — Guide
- Design a chatbot that reads IFS Cloud data safely — Guide
- Design an IFS integration middleware layer — Guide
- Design and test Java transformers for IFS Connect — Guide
- Design for retries and failures — Concept lesson
- Design SOAP integrations with IFS Cloud and IFS Connect — Guide
- Discover an API contract — Concept lesson
- Import files into IFS Cloud with Power Automate and OneDrive — Guide
- Import media attachments into IFS Cloud — Guide
- Integrate IoT sensor readings with IFS Cloud — Guide
- Monitor IFS integrations with Azure Monitor — Guide
- Plan speech transcription for IFS service notes — Guide
- Protect IFS Cloud APIs with Azure API Management — Guide
- Send reliable SMS notifications from IFS events — Guide
- Shape a small data query — Concept lesson
- Test XSLT mappings before deploying to IFS Connect — Guide
- Trace IFS Cloud API requests with browser tools and Postman — Guide
- Write data and handle validation errors — Guide
From choosing an approach to supporting it in production: a practical guide to IFS Cloud integrations and APIs.
26R1 reference · documentation-based guides · not yet environment verified. Examples are original and fictional. This center organizes the integration journey, with focused design guides below and remaining end-to-end projects identified separately. Do not represent any simulation here as a live IFS system.
Choose an approachDecide between projection APIs, IFS Connect, workflows, and file exchange before you build anything.
Try the authentication flowStep through a fictional token request, then an authenticated call, and see what a denial actually means.
Write data safelyFollow a create/update request through validation and ETag concurrency checks.
The full journey
Section titled “The full journey”| Area | Tutorials and examples | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Choosing an approach | When to use projection APIs, IFS Connect, workflows, or file exchange | Available — choosing an approach |
| API discovery | Find APIs in API Explorer; understand metadata, entities, keys, actions, and functions | Available — discover an API contract |
| Authentication and access | Configure an integration identity, obtain tokens, and diagnose access failures | Available — authentication and access |
| Reading data | Filtering, selecting fields, ordering, and pagination | Available — shape a small data query and the query lab |
| Writing data | Create/update records, ETags, and validation errors | Available — writing data |
| Inbound integrations | Receive external requests, validate and transform data, prevent duplicates | Design guides — file intake, SOAP, media |
| Outbound integrations | Publish business changes, call external services, reconcile outcomes | Design guides — REST tasks, SMS, email |
| IFS Connect | Routing, connectors, transformers, and application messages | Design guides — SOAP, Java transformers, XSLT tests |
| Files and scheduled exchange | CSV/XML/JSON contracts, transport options, and failed-record handling | Design guides — Power Automate intake and scheduled work |
| Custom integration APIs | Build a projection service and package its delivery | Available — connect a projection function |
| Reliability and security | Retries, idempotency, correlation identifiers, and safe recovery | Available — design for retries and failures |
| Testing and operations | Contract tests, monitoring, and support runbooks | Design guides — request tracing, monitoring, testing and delivery |
Choose your route
Section titled “Choose your route”| Your task | Start here |
|---|---|
| Decide how to integrate at all | Choosing an approach |
| Find the right API before writing a client | API discovery |
| Get a working token and diagnose 401/403 | Authentication and access |
| Read a filtered, paginated result | Query shaping → query lab |
| Create or update a record without losing data | Writing data |
| Plan for retries, duplicates, and failure evidence | Reliability and security |
| Expose an operation with no existing API | Custom integration APIs |
Focused integration guides
Section titled “Focused integration guides”Choose the task you need to complete. These guides provide original scenarios, failure cases, and acceptance exercises; their IFS procedures remain unexecuted drafts.
- Import files into IFS Cloud with Power Automate and OneDrive — Design a recoverable OneDrive file intake flow for IFS Cloud with validation, duplicate prevention, acknowledgements, and quarantine.
- Protect IFS Cloud APIs with Azure API Management — Separate caller authorization from IFS backend authentication, restrict exposed operations, and design token handling for an Azure API gateway.
- Connect Power Apps to IFS Cloud APIs — Plan a Power Apps custom connector for IFS Cloud with explicit identity, bounded queries, write validation, and useful error feedback.
- Clean up Dataverse integration test data safely — Design a preview-first cleanup flow for Dataverse test batches, with explicit filters, dependency checks, paging, and partial-failure reporting.
- Trace IFS Cloud API requests with browser tools and Postman — Identify the real IFS request behind a user action, rebuild it with supported authentication, and collect redacted evidence for troubleshooting.
- Monitor IFS integrations with Azure Monitor — Choose integration health signals, collect redacted telemetry, and build actionable alerts for on-premises and externally hosted IFS integration components.
- Design SOAP integrations with IFS Cloud and IFS Connect — Separate SOAP transport, routing, business processing, and acknowledgements when designing or migrating an IFS Connect integration.
- Design and test Java transformers for IFS Connect — Define deterministic Java transformer contracts for IFS Connect, including encoding, binary payloads, dependencies, and deployment checks.
- Test XSLT mappings before deploying to IFS Connect — Build repeatable XML transformation fixtures and check namespaces, missing values, encoding, and processor compatibility before IFS deployment.
- Create integration XML with Oracle PL/SQL — Choose SQL/XML or DBMS_XMLDOM for an integration payload and preserve escaping, namespaces, null semantics, and resource cleanup.
- Import media attachments into IFS Cloud — Design an attachment intake process with explicit business keys, content validation, supported IFS APIs, and duplicate-safe linking.
- Integrate IoT sensor readings with IFS Cloud — Turn device telemetry into bounded IFS business events using validation, aggregation, equipment mapping, and duplicate-safe processing.
- Design an IFS integration middleware layer — Choose the responsibilities of an ESB or integration worker, assess legacy WSO2 connectors, and plan deployment, secrets, replay, and recovery.
- Design a chatbot that reads IFS Cloud data safely — Connect conversational tools to a narrow IFS API with verified user identity, business-data authorization, bounded actions, and traceable responses.
- Send reliable SMS notifications from IFS events — Design an IFS-to-SMS integration with approved recipients, minimal message content, durable delivery tracking, and duplicate controls.
- Plan speech transcription for IFS service notes — Design an Azure Speech intake service that validates audio, handles asynchronous work, and requires review before saving an IFS note.
Three end-to-end projects (Planned)
Section titled “Three end-to-end projects (Planned)”These worked projects would connect the material above once the remaining areas are written:
- Read IFS data into an external dashboard — authentication, discovery, queries, pagination, and permissions.
- Create a business record from an external application — mappings, supported business operations, validation, and duplicate prevention.
- Send an IFS business event to an external service — trigger, transformation, delivery, retries, and reconciliation.
These projects are planned and are not yet available.
Working materials
Section titled “Working materials”Download the integration design worksheet. Global site search indexes every guide; try access token, ETag, projection, or correlation identifier.
What still needs verification
Section titled “What still needs verification”The documentation baseline is 26R1. Actual endpoint names, grant types, error codes, and IFS Connect mechanics must be checked in your compatible environment. No integration example on this site has been executed against a live IFS system.