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Preparing for authentication

  1. Go to your Facebook Developers account.

  2. Click Create App.

  3. Select Business and provide the basic information as requested.

  4. Click Set Up on Instagram Graph API, then navigate back to the dashboard and click Set Up on Facebook Login.

  5. Select Web and use ? as the Site URL.

  6. Click Settings > Basic from the left menu.

  7. Add ? to App Domains.

  8. From the left menu navigate to Facebook Login > Settings, and add https://connector.qlik.com/auth/oauth/v3.htm to the Valid OAuth Redirect URIs.

Creating the connection

For more information, see Connecting to SaaS applications.

  1. Click Authenticate when you have filled in the required connection settings.

    You may be asked to log in to the source application.

    A window is displayed with an authentication code.

  2. Copy the code to the clipboard and return to the connection dialog.

  3. Paste the code in Complete authentication with the code provided by the source and click Verify.

    Tip noteYou may need to scroll down to see this field.

    When status is Verified, the authentication is verified.

  4. Provide a name for the connection in Connection name.

  5. Select Open connection metadata to define metadata for the connection when it has been created.

Connection settings
Setting Description
Data gateway

Select a Data Movement gateway if required by your use case.

Information note

This field is not available with the Qlik Talend Cloud Starter subscription, as it does not support Data Movement gateway. If you have another subscription tier and do not want to use Data Movement gateway, select None.

For information on the benefits of Data Movement gateway and use cases that require it, see Qlik Data Gateway - Data Movement.

App ID

ID of the app that you created.

App Secret

App secret of the app that you created.

From your app dashboard in Facebook Developers navigate to Settings > Basic and click Show next to App Secret.

Start Date

Start date in the format YYYY-MM-DD.

Example: 2020-10-01

Time Zone Time zone.

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