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TopLeft needs access to your ConnectWise Manage application to download tickets, opportunities, members, and other records used to display and filter tickets on the TopLeft Kanban boards. It also updates tickets statuses and opportunity stages when a card is dragged between TopLeft board columns, and registers itself to receive web-based callbacks from ConnectWise when tickets, opportunities, and other records are updated.

All communication between TopLeft and your ConnectWise instance uses the ConnectWise REST API and is encrypted by TLS.

To allow TopLeft access to your ConnectWise database, please follow the instructions below. These steps must be performed by a ConnectWise administrator with permission to manage security roles and members.

Configuring TopLeft Access to ConnectWise Manage

There are four steps to configure your ConnectWise Manage application for TopLeft:

1. Add a security role for TopLeft
2. Add an API member
3. Set up API credentials for the member
4. If you use on-premise ConnectWise behind a firewall filtering access by IP, add our IP addresses to your whitelist.
5. Submit the API credentials and other information in the support portal

Add a Security Role for TopLeft

To limit the information available to TopLeft, we recommend you set up a Security Role dedicated to the TopLeft user. To open the Security Roles administration section, click System → Security Roles.

Click the "+" button in the toolbar.


Enter "TopLeft" as the role name, or follow an existing pattern for role names. Click the save icon .

In the role list, click the new role name to list security modules for the role.

Update the module function security to match these definitions. Modules and functions not mentioned can be left at their default settings.

Module: Companies

To open the Companies security module, click Companies in the list.

The module function administration table is displayed. Change the permissions rows to match the following levels.

Click Companies again to collapse the pane, then click Finance to open the next pane.

Module: Finance

Module: Project

Module: Sales

Module: Service Desk

Module: System

Module: Time & Expense

Add an API Member

TopLeft authenticates itself to ConnectWise Manage as an API member. To open the Members section, click System → Members.

Click the API Members tab.

Click the "+" button in the toolbar.

Complete the member form as follows:

• Profile
  • Member ID: TopLeft (recommended, or follow an existing pattern for member names). Note that API members can only access ConnectWise via the API, not with the GUI clients.
  • Member Name: TopLeft API
  • Email: topleft@yourdomain.com
• System
  • Role ID: TopLeft (or whatever you named the new security role)
  • Level: Corporate (Level 1)
  • Name: Corporate
• All other options- set to best reflect that this account has view of your entire organization, not just a single location or business unit.

Save the member by clicking the disk icon .

Set Up API Credentials For the Member

After creating the member, you must set up API keys for it. In the member page, click the API Keys tab.

Click the "+" button in the toolbar.

In the description field, enter "TopLeft". Click the disk icon .

ConnectWise displays a public key and private key. Save both in a safe place. ConnectWise will never show the private key again.

Submit the API credentials and other information in the support portal

Log into the support portal and go to the My Details page: https://portal.cwkanban.com/clientarea.php?action=details

Enter the following fields:

• ConnectWise URL
• ConnectWise company ID
• ConnectWise API member public key
• ConnectWise API member private key

Ignore the Autotask fields.

Click Save Changes. We will validate the credentials with your ConnectWise manage application and show an error message if they didn't work or the server couldn't be reached.

That's it! We'll let you know when your TopLeft service is available. We aim to complete the setup within one business day after you submit your ConnectWise information.

Troubleshooting

ConnectWise sometimes doesn't immediately apply security role changes to API requests. If you have trouble setting up permissions, try these steps:

1. Double-check the security role permissions against the list above. The permissions required by TopLeft can change as we introduce new features and as ConnectWise updates their schema.
2. Change the role ID of the API member to a completely different security role, and save the member. Then swap it back to the TopLeft role and save.
3. Delete the TopLeft security role, then create a new one from scratch as per the steps above. Then set the API member's role to the new role.

Further Reference

Refer to ConnectWise documentation:

• Security roles matrix: https://university.connectwise.com/University/PageView.aspx?short_name=security-roles-matrix
• Members: https://docs.connectwise.com/ConnectWise_Documentation/090/040/010/010