# About Connections

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Starting with March 12, 2026, and as announced in the Release Notes, Integration Service connections must be created in Orchestrator. The creation process remains identical when initiated directly from Integration Service, ensuring a consistent experience for all users.
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## Connections in Orchestrator

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Starting with March 12, 2026, and as announced in the Release Notes, Integration Service connections must be created in Orchestrator. The creation process remains identical when initiated directly from Integration Service, ensuring a consistent experience for all users.
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This move brings several key advantages:

* Less context-switching You can now create assets, queues, triggers, and connections all in one place, without navigating to another left-hand menu. Fewer clicks, fewer page loads, and lower cognitive load lead to a smoother workflow.
* Easier troubleshooting When runs fail, you are already in Orchestrator reviewing jobs, queues, or logs. You can now view and manage the related connection in the same interface, reducing time to resolution.
* A consistent mental model Orchestrator already centralizes your resources. Managing connections alongside assets and triggers ensures a more intuitive and cohesive experience.

## Overview

A connection is a reusable, governed authorization to an external application, created through a specific [Connector](https://docs.uipath.com/integration-service/automation-cloud/latest/user-guide/connectors).

It securely stores the required identity or credentials, such as OAuth tokens or API keys, and manages their lifecycle.

Connections are used across the UiPath platform, including in workflows, triggers, activities, and agents, to call that application’s APIs.

The following table describes the fields available on the Connections tab:

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Table 1. Connections tab
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    Field 
    Description 
  
 
 
  
    Connection name 
    The name of the connection. The default name is the connection account. This field is editable by the user. 
  
  
    Connector 
    The name of the  connector  used to create the connection. 
  
  
    Connection account 
    The identifier used for creating the connection. Typically, this is the account or username. This field is read-only. 
  
  
    Authentication type 
    The authentication type used to create the connection. The possible options are:
      
         Client Certificate Authentication 
         OAuth 2.0 Authorization code 
         OAuth 2.0 Client credentials 
         Bring your own OAuth 2.0 app 
      
Note:  Available options may vary depending on the connector.  This field cannot be changed once the connection is created. 
  
  
    Status 
    The status of the connection. The possible options are:
      
         Connected 
         Disconnected 
      

  
  
    Polling frequency 
    How often the system checks an external application for updates or new events.