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This page describes the functional flow and is provided to assist the design of merchant workflows in implementing the InAcademia academic validation service.

  • Release 4.6.0 3 (see SVS 4.6.0) introducing enhanced accessibility at the user consent screen3) introducing support for SATOSA 8.5.1 and pysaml2 7.5.2, deployed to production 22nd January 2024:17th March 2025

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Detailed functional flow

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The figure presents the 'happy' flow, ending in a successful validation, as displayed in green, as well the possible error scenarios represented in red or orange. The error situation where a institutional IdP, or the merchant redirect URL component cannot be reached because of network issues or similar are out of scope and control for InAcademia and will always yield an error in the users browser. The InAcademia service is part of a continuing development programme and additional features planned for the future are also captured below.

Entry Flow with Errors v4.6.

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Response Flow v4.6.

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