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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.

High Level Functional flow

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  • Release 4.6.3 (see SVS 4.6.3) introducing support for SATOSA 8.5.1 and pysaml2 7.5.2, deployed to production 17th March 2025

Table of Contents
Detailed functional flow

In the following diagram, light blue represents the merchant web shop, grey blue is InAcademia functionality. Institutional Identity Provider is represented in Green. 

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 is not take into account as that is out are out of scope and control for InAcademia and will always yield an some 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 v4.6.3

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Response Flow v4.6.3

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