Scoping OAuth client to specific divisions for multi-tenant BPO access keeps returning 403

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{
“name”: “BPO_Tenant_Access_Client”,
“clientId”: “xK9mP2vL4nQ8rT1wY6”,
“clientSecret”: “secret_hidden”,
“grants”: [“client_credentials”],
“scopes”: [“analytics:read”, “routing:write”],
“divisionIds”: [“div_east_coast_ops”, “div_west_coast_ops”]
}
PUT /api/v2/oauth/clients/xK9mP2vL4nQ8rT1wY6
Response is a straight 400 with message “divisionIds is not a valid property”. Tried swapping it to a single divisionId string, got 403 on the token endpoint. The docs say you can restrict a client to a subset of divisions for BPO handoffs but the payload keeps rejecting the array.

We’ve got three different BPOs sharing the same org instance and each one needs isolated access to their own queue metrics. Client credentials flow is the only thing that’ll work for the backend scheduler. Every time the service account hits /api/v2/oauth/token with grant_type set to client_credentials, it pulls back a token that still sees everything across all divisions.

The routing settings are already locked down by division, but the OAuth layer is wide open. Tried adding a custom attribute to the client config, platform ignores it. Just want the token to respect the division boundaries without writing a middleware filter to strip out unauthorized queue data on every API call.

curl -X POST “https://api.mypurecloud.com/api/v2/oauth/token”
-H “Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded”
-d “grant_type=client_credentials&client_id=xK9mP2vL4nQ8rT1wY6&client_secret=…”

Anyone got the exact JSON structure that actually sticks on the update endpoint? The swagger spec doesn’t list division scoping under the OAuth client model at all. Keeps feeling like I’m hitting a wall with the client credentials flow.

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divisionIds isn’t a property you set on the OAuth client. That’s not how the scope isolation works. You’re mixing up resource scoping with authentication.

The client just needs the broad scopes. The filtering happens at the API request level. You get the token normally, then you pass the division ID in the header for every single call.

Here’s the actual flow:

  1. Create the client with just client_credentials and the scopes. No division config.
  2. Get the token.
  3. Use the X-Genesys-Application-Id or more commonly the X-Genesys-Auth-Division-Id header to restrict the response.
POST /api/v2/oauth/token
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

grant_type=client_credentials&client_id=xK9mP2vL4nQ8rT1wY6&client_secret=secret_hidden

Then when you hit the endpoint:

GET /api/v2/routing/users
Authorization: Bearer <your_token>
X-Genesys-Auth-Division-Id: div_east_coast_ops

If you want to restrict the client to only certain divisions at the platform level so it can’t even request tokens for others, you have to use Organization Roles and Permissions. But for most multi-tenant setups, you handle the division context in the application logic or via the headers. The 400 error is because the API schema for PUT /api/v2/oauth/clients/{id} literally doesn’t have a divisionIds field. Check the Swagger spec.

Also, routing:write is broad. Make sure you don’t need routing:queue:write or similar if you’re trying to limit blast radius. But that’s a permission issue, not a client config issue.