BlueJeans provides interoperable cloud-based video conferencing services. Easily and securely hold live online meetings, webinars, and video calls.

Authenticating

BlueJeans uses API Key and API Secret Based Auth, a developer-friendly delegated access protocol. Quolum has already connected the necessary wires with BlueJeans. Using a sequence of click-throughs, your organization's administrator allows Quolum to make API calls to BlueJeans without getting access to passwords.

Step 1: Initiate a connection to BlueJeans

Click the Connect button from the Connections card. If you are not an admin, you can invite your organization's BlueJeans admin to make a connection to your BlueJeans organization account. When you click on the Connect button, the web browser will navigate to the BlueJeans login page.

Step 2: Log in to BlueJeans

Log in to BlueJeans using your organization's credentials. The exact login mechanism may depend on your BlueJeans plan, and the sign-in mechanism used. You may have corporate SSO such as Azure AD, GSuite, or Okta along with multi-factor authentication. Sometimes you may need to enter a Personal Access Token, the step by step details of which can be found at BlueJeans API . Once you have successfully logged-in you can find the API Key and API Secret as mentioned below in Step 3.

Step 3: Finding the API Key and API Secret in BlueJeans

Step 3.1: Click on "Admin" on the top bar of the page as shown below

Step 3.2: Click on "Group Settings" card on the left navbar

Step 3.3: Click on "OAuth Access" Tab. Note that sometimes it is not enabled by default. If that is the case please ask the customer support to enable it. Generally the fastest way is to reach the customer support via live chat available in the bluejeans website

Step 3.4: When clicked on "ADD NEW APP" button from the previous page, A page opens up as below. Fill in the App Name, Description , App Key and then press Save. Again click on OAuth Access button on the top. You will get the App Key and App Secret

Step 3.5: Copy the App Key and App Secret and use it to connect your application right away.

Step 4: Provide consent to Quolum

The next screen after login into BlueJeans is the consent screen. On this screen, BlueJeans confirms whether you authorize Quolum to access your organization's data.

Step 5: Back to Quolum

Once you have granted access to Quolum on BlueJeans website, BlueJeans is going to send you back to Quolum's page in Step 1, where you started. The Connect button on the Connections card would now say Reconnect. Reconnect is used to reauthenticate under circumstances where the access has expired.

Under the hood

Using the OAuth protocol, Quolum now has delegated access to your BlueJeans Workspace. The Quolum server, running on Amazon AWS VPC, will be able to make API calls and retrieve feature-level utilization of projects, stories, and tasks. Later, this data is crunched and available for visualization on the Quolum dashboard.