Connect to Cvent

Property	Description
Connection Name	Name of the connection. Each connection name must be unique within the organization. Connection names can contain alphanumeric characters, spaces, and the following special characters: _ . + -, Maximum length is 255 characters.
Description	Description of the connection. Maximum length is 4000 characters.
Use Secret Vault	Stores sensitive credentials for this connection in the secrets manager that is configured for your organization. This property appears only if secrets manager is set up for your organization. This property is not supported by Data Ingestion and Replication and the Data Access Management services. When you enable the secret vault in the connection, you can select which credentials that the Secure Agent retrieves from the secrets manager. If you don't enable this option, the credentials are stored in the repository or on a local Secure Agent, depending on how your organization is configured. Note: If you’re using this connection to apply data access policies through pushdown or proxy services, you cannot use the Secret Vault configuration option. For information about how to configure and use a secrets manager, see Secrets manager configuration.
Runtime Environment	The name of the runtime environment where you want to run tasks. Select a Secure Agent or a Hosted Agent For more information about how to configure and use the runtime environments, see Runtime environments.

Authentication types

OAuth 2.0 Client Credentials authentication uses the client ID, client secret, and access token URL to connect to Cvent.

The following table describes the basic connection properties for OAuth 2.0 client credentials authentication:

Property	Description
Access Token URL	The URL where the OAuth 2.0 requests are sent to obtain the Cvent access token.
Client ID	The client ID of your application to connect to Cvent.
Client Secret	The client secret of your application associated with the client ID.
Access Token	The access token value. Click Generate Access Token to populate the access token value.

Advanced settings

Property	Description
Scope	The scope parameters that define the permissions an access token grants to the Cvent REST endpoint. For example, event/admission-items:read, event/contacts:read, and budget/payments:read. Specify multiple scopes separated by a space. If you do not specify any value in this property, the access token is generated based on the scope configured at the application level.
Retry Count	The maximum number of retry attempts to receive a response from the Cvent REST endpoint after an error. Default is 3.
Retry Interval	The wait time in milliseconds between each retry attempt. Default is 5000 milliseconds.

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