The instructions on this page describe how to configure Trusted Applications for an application link. You can configure outgoing authentication and/or incoming authentication . Trusted Applications authentication allows one application to allow access to specified functions on another application on behalf of any user, without the user having to log into the second application. For example, if you configure a JIRA server to trust a Confluence server, every Confluence user will see exactly the same list of issues when they view the Confluence 'JIRA Issues' macro as they see when they use the JIRA issue navigator as a logged-in JIRA user. A typical scenario is setting up an application link between two applications which trust each other, have the same set of users and both have the application links plugin installed. In this case, you would configure Trusted Applications for both outgoing authentication and incoming authentication. See Configuring Authentication for an Application Link for other configurations. On this page:

Before You Begin

• The instructions below assume that both of the applications that you are linking have the Application Links plugin installed. If the remote application that you are linking to supports Trusted Applications, but does not have the Application Links plugin installed, you will need to configure Trusted Applications from within the remote application (see the relevant administrator's documentation for the application) in addition to configuring the outgoing/incoming authentication for the application link (as described below).

Configuring Trusted Applications for Outgoing Authentication

Configuring outgoing Trusted Applications authentication will allow the remote application to trust your local application (i.e. allow your application to access specified functions and data on the remote application).

To configure Trusted Applications authentication for an outgoing application link:

Configuring Trusted Applications for Incoming Authentication

Configuring incoming Trusted Applications authentication will allow your local application to trust the remote application that you are linking it to (i.e. allow your 'trusted' remote application to access specified functions and data on your local application).

To configure Trusted Applications authentication for an incoming application link:

Notes

Related Topics

Configuring Basic HTTP Authentication for an Application Link
Configuring OAuth Authentication for an Application Link