Integration
What It Is
An integration gives staff a reusable provider offering within Rhythm. It may offer payment operations, virtual meetings or another external service. The catalogue describes the offering and the releases available for it. A workspace adopts that offering through an installation, which retains the administrator’s settings and access choices. Provider account connections then belong beneath that installation.
The adapter is the running software that carries out provider work. Its release declaration describes capabilities, authentication and configuration. This is useful to a product manager because it separates three decisions: whether the provider implementation exists, whether Rhythm offers it to this customer, and whether this workspace adopts it. Those decisions can occur at different times and have different responsible actors. A published description also gives account connections a stable reference while later releases are prepared.
What It Is Not
The offering is distinct from the provider account used by the customer. Installing a payment integration does not identify the account that receives a payment. It also does not select which account should serve a business unit; that selection belongs to routing configuration. A provider capability describes the job available across implementations, while an extension supplies customized application behaviour.
How It Is Used
Rhythm staff maintain releases and customer availability. Administrators browse eligible offers, review provider detail and establish the workspace installation. They return to its settings when the customer’s requirements change or use suspension while investigating a problem. Readers inspect the saved records without performing those changes.
A sound review distinguishes requested access from accepted access and asks which account connections will be needed. The current code permits restored acceptance within the declaration, although the recorded narrow-only decision does not settle that behaviour. An installation that still has connected accounts requires further work before removal. Those questions belong to adoption and account lifecycle rather than to choosing an attractive catalogue tile.
Its Facets
Catalogue and availability. Presentation information identifies the provider and helps staff find it. Availability determines the customers to whom Rhythm offers it.
Releases and capabilities. Versioned declarations describe supported jobs and optional features. Release notes give context for a change, while pinned account connections retain the implementation they use.
Deployment. The running location connects a release description to executable adapter code. Replacement deployment and replacement release are separate operations.
Installation and accepted access. The workspace adoption records its standing and choices. Stored consent is checked on supported call and event paths; the deferred data-grant service does not establish general enforcement of data scopes.
Settings and platform secrets. Installation settings configure provider behaviour for the customer. Accounts held by Rhythm instead use secrets administered by Rhythm staff, without returning the stored values.
How It Relates
Connections supply the provider accounts for an installation. Capability calls use those accounts for provider work. Integration events carry notifications back to applications and subscribed changes out to providers. The workspace lifecycle owns deletion of the workspace itself; this module participates by removing its provider records.
What It Could Become
The product should settle whether acceptance can be restored after withdrawal and whether removal should permanently discard subscriptions. Staff catalogue screens remain later work. A future offer may need clearer support information or additional providers, but neither an observed release nor a registered adapter establishes product acceptance. Future adoption flows should continue to expose the difference between an available implementation and an approved customer offering.