OpenCRVS
v1.4
v1.4
  • 👋Welcome!
  • CRVS Systems
    • Understanding CRVS
    • Effective digital CRVS systems
    • OpenCRVS within a government systems architecture
    • OpenCRVS Value Proposition
  • Product Specifications
    • Functional Architecture
    • Workflow management
    • Status Flow Diagram
    • Users
      • Examples
    • Core functions
      • 1. Notify event
      • 2. Declare event
      • 3. Validate event
      • 4. Register event
      • 5. Print certificate
      • 6. Issue certificate
      • 7. Search for a record
      • 8. View record
      • 9. Correct record
      • 10. Verify record
      • 11. Archive record
      • 12. Vital statistics export
    • Support functions
      • 13. Login
      • 14. Audit
      • 15. Deduplication
      • 16. Performance management
      • 17. Payment
      • 18. Learning
      • 19. User support
      • 20. User onboarding
    • Admin functions
      • 21. User management
      • 22. Comms management
      • 23. Content management
      • 24. Config management
    • Data functions
      • 25. Legacy data import
      • 26. Legacy paper import
  • Technology
    • Architecture
      • Performance tests
    • Standards
      • FHIR Documents
        • Event Composition
        • Person
        • Registration Task
        • Event Observations
        • Locations
    • Security
    • Interoperability
      • Create a client
      • Authenticate a client
      • Event Notification clients
      • Record Search clients
      • Webhook clients
      • National ID client
      • FHIR Location REST API
      • Other ways to interoperate
  • Default configuration
    • Intro to Farajaland
    • Civil registration in Farajaland
    • OpenCRVS configuration in Farajaland
      • Application settings
      • User / role mapping
      • Declaration forms
      • Certificate templates
    • Business process flows in Farajaland
  • Setup
    • 1. Planning an OpenCRVS Implementation
    • 2. Establish project and team
    • 3. Gather requirements
      • 3.1 Mapping business processes
      • 3.2 Mapping offices and user types
      • 3.3 Define your application settings
      • 3.4 Designing event declaration forms
      • 3.5 Designing a certificate template
    • 4. Installation
      • 4.1 Set-up a local development environment
        • 4.1.1 Install the required dependencies
        • 4.1.2 Install OpenCRVS locally
        • 4.1.3 Starting and stopping OpenCRVS
        • 4.1.4 Log in to OpenCRVS locally
        • 4.1.5 Tooling
          • 4.1.5.1 WSL support
      • 4.2 Set-up your own, local, country configuration
        • 4.2.1 Fork your own country configuration repository
        • 4.2.2 Set up administrative address divisions
          • 4.2.2.1 Prepare source file for administrative structure
          • 4.2.2.2 Prepare source file for statistics
        • 4.2.3 Set up CR offices and Health facilities
          • 4.2.3.1 Prepare source file for CRVS Office facilities
          • 4.2.3.2 Prepare source file for health facilities
        • 4.2.4 Set up employees & roles for testing or production
          • 4.2.3.1 Prepare source file for employees
          • 4.2.3.2 Configure role titles
        • 4.2.5 Set up application settings
          • 4.2.5.1 Managing language content
            • 4.2.5.1.1 Informant and staff notifications
          • 4.2.5.2 Configuring Metabase Dashboards
        • 4.2.6 Configure certificate templates
        • 4.2.7 Configure declaration forms
          • 4.2.7.1 Configuring an event form
        • 4.2.8 Seeding & clearing your local databases
        • 4.2.9 Countryconfig API endpoints explained
      • 4.3 Set-up a server-hosted environment
        • 4.3.1 Verify servers & create a "provision" user
        • 4.3.2 HTTPS & Networking
        • 4.3.3 Create a Github environment
          • 4.3.3.1 Environment secrets and variables explained
        • 4.3.4 Provision environments
          • 4.3.4.1 Building, pushing & releasing your countryconfig code
        • 4.3.5 Deploy
    • 5. Functional configuration
      • 5.1 Configure application settings
      • 5.2 Configure registration periods and fees
      • 5.3 Managing system users
    • 6. Quality assurance testing
    • 7. Go-live
      • 7.1 Pre-Deployment Checklist
    • 8. Operational Support
    • 9. Monitoring
      • 9.1 Application logs
      • 9.2 Infrastructure health
      • 9.3 Routine monitoring checklist
      • 9.4 Setting up alerts
      • 9.5 Managing a Docker Swarm
  • General
    • Community
    • Contributing
    • Releases
      • v1.4.1: Release notes
      • v1.4.0 to v1.4.1 Migration notes
      • v1.4.0 Release notes
      • v1.3.* to v1.4.* Migration notes
      • v1.3.5: Release notes
      • v1.3.4: Release notes
      • v1.3.3: Release notes
      • v1.3.1: Release notes
      • v1.3.* to v1.3.* Migration notes
      • v1.3.0: Release notes
      • v1.2.* to v1.3.* Migration notes
        • v1.2 to v1.3: Form migration
      • v1.2.1: Release notes
      • Patch: Elasticsearch 7.10.2
      • v1.2.0: Release notes
      • v1.1.* to v1.2.* Migration notes
      • v.1.1.2: Release notes
      • v.1.1.1: Release notes
      • v1.1.0: Release notes
    • Interoperability roadmap
    • Product roadmap
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Create a client

How to create and manage access to OpenCRVS' interoperability functionality

PreviousInteroperabilityNextAuthenticate a client

In order to interoperate with OpenCRVS, you must first create an official client.

Only a National System Administrator role can create a client. E.G. In our example for our fake country Farajaland, this is the user: j.campbell

  1. Login to OpenCRVS as the user: j.campbell

  2. Use the left navigation to select the Configuration > Integrations section.

3. Click + Create client

4. You will see a modal overlay where you can select the type of client you wish to create. The business functionality available for each client is explained in subsequent pages in this section of our documentation.

The type of client you create is important and can only perform API requests associated with the business functionality relevant to that type. A Record Search client is not authorized to perform an Event Notification for example.

You must give each client a unique name.

5. When you click "Create", you will be shown the authentication details for the client along with a SHA Secret used to sign, encrypt, decrypt and verify the authenticity of payloads.

You must copy these keys now! The Client Secret will never be displayed to you again and it cannot be retrieved from our database as it is encrypted.

6. You can manage existing clients by using the 3 dots menu after the client has been created. You can reveal the Client ID and SHA Secret keys at any time and refresh the Client Secret to create a new one by selecting "Reveal Keys".

When you refresh a Client Secret, the old secret will no longer work for authentication.

You can also temporarily "Deactivate" and "Enable" a client or alternatively "Delete" it.

All client behaviour is audited and is ultimately the personal responsibility of the National System Administrator of OpenCRVS that created the client. Protect citizen data and do not expose access unnecessarily, as you may be in breach of local privacy laws.

Creating an Event notification client