Developing SAP Concur Extension Solutions

Video Tutorials

SAP Concur provides travel and expense management services to businesses.

In this video tutorial mini-series by Tahir Hussain Babar (Bob) from the SAP HANA Academy and Venkatesh Babu from SAP Concur Cloud Channel Sales we will discuss and show how to get started  with developing SAP Concur Extension Solutions with focus on authentication and authorization.

What You Will Learn

Watching the five videos takes 50 minutes. What you will learn is

• How to develop partner extension solutions for SAP Concur
• How to create an app; authentication administration and scopes
• How to get an refresh and access token
• How to execute POSTs and GETs to create and retrieve users
• How to work with “deeplinks”

YouTube Playlist

To access the playlist on YouTube, go to

• Developing SAP Concur Extension Solutions

SAP Concur Integration – Overview

Tutorial

In this video series, we’ll introduce integrating with SAP Concur using Rest APIs. This first video starts with an overview of SAP Concur, the main aspects of the video series and gives an introduction into SAP Concur Platform Integration.

Chapters

0:00 – Introduction

0:25 – About SAP Concur

1:25 – Series Agenda

4:15 – Architecture

5:20 – Partner Solutions

References

For product information, go to

• Travel and Expense Management

SAP Concur Integration – Application Creation

Tutorial

In this video, we’ll go through the steps needed to create an application in the Administration tab in SAP Concur, which enables you to have the correct authentication needed to access SAP Concur APIs. We’ll go over Production Sandbox Environments, Authentication Administration and how to create an “application” to give you authentication / authorization to begin using SAP Concur APIs.

Chapters

0:00 – Introduction

0:40 – Authentication Administration

2:00 – Create new app

2:30 – Scopes

5:00 – App credentials

References

For the API Reference, go to the SAP Concur Developer Center

• Authentication
• Scopes

SAP Concur Integration – API Tokens

Tutorial

In this video, we’ll look at setting up OAuth2 Authentication using POSTMAN; so, we’ll go through creating / using request, refresh and bearer tokens.

Chapters

0:00 – Introduction

1:50 – Postman collection

2:05 – Obtain a refresh token

3:05 – Company request token

5:00 – POST request

Code

To download the Postman Collection, go to

• SAP Concur API

SAP Concur Integration – Testing the APIs

Tutorial

In this video, we’ll go through a simple example of demonstrating that our authentication and authorization works by creating a user in SAP Concur using APIs (using a POST in Postman) and then retrieving that user’s details (using a GET).

Chapters

0:00 – Introduction

0:45 – GET list of users

2:55 – POST create profile (200 OK)

4:40 – GET summary list of users

5:30 – POST create profile (400 Bad Request) 

6:50 – GET single user by UUID

SAP Concur Integration – Deeplinks

Tutorial

In this video, we’ll look at the concept of “Deeplinks”, which is the formal way of connecting to a partner app by the customer on SAP Concur’s App Store.

Chapters

0:00 – Introduction

3:40 – Deep links

6:00 – Activation

7:00 – Request token

8:00 – POST Obtain an access token

9:20 – GET summary list of users 

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