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Affinity to D2l Brightspace integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Affinity and D2l Brightspace in sync without custom scripts. Cut weeks of integration work, eliminate silent data drift, and give your team a single, reliable source of truth.

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Why teams connect Affinity and D2l Brightspace

Keep the people who own accounts in Affinity in step with the workforce records in D2l Brightspace, so ownership, roles, and org structure stay current in both systems, in real time and in both directions.

Affinity runs on people as much as on accounts: every contact, deal, and account has an owner, and those owners are employees whose roles, teams, and status are held in D2l Brightspace. D2l Brightspace is the system of record for the workforce, from new hires to promotions to departures, and often for the candidates the business is still deciding on. When the two systems are connected only by re-keying or an overnight export, they drift apart, and the CRM ends up assigning accounts to people who have left, holding territories that no longer match the org chart, and waiting days to give a new rep access.

Stacksync syncs Reminders, Lists, List Entries, Persons in Affinity with Content (Modules, Topics, and User Progress), Quizzes, Assignments (Dropbox), Groups and Sections in D2l Brightspace field by field, in real time, and in both directions. You decide which system owns which fields, so D2l Brightspace stays authoritative on roles and org structure while Affinity keeps ownership and territory current, and Stacksync resolves conflicts by the rules you set.

Common use cases

  • 01 Sync notes and reminders into project or task systems used outside the deal team.
  • 02 Mirror deal-flow lists into a warehouse or BI tool for pipeline and portfolio reporting.
  • 03 Two-way sync of Users and Enrollments between Brightspace and an SIS or HRIS so new learners and their course rosters stay aligned without manual CSV imports.
  • 04 Write Grades reconciled in a warehouse back onto Brightspace grade objects, and read grade values out for transcript and completion reporting.

Common sync patterns

Where D2l Brightspace tracks people the business also engages: contacts stay in sync

A person recorded in D2l Brightspace, such as a candidate or applicant, can create or update the matching contact in Affinity, so relationship history and outreach are not rebuilt from scratch when the same individual appears in both.

New team members provisioned when they are hired

When D2l Brightspace records a new hire, a matching user or owner is created in Affinity, so a new rep can start working accounts without waiting on a manual setup ticket.

Ownership and territory follow the org chart

When a person changes team, manager, or region in D2l Brightspace, their accounts and territory assignments in Affinity update to match, so pipeline stays with the right owner.

What you can sync between Affinity and D2l Brightspace

Representative objects on each side — any object or custom field can map to any target. Schemas are auto-detected; types are converted between the two systems.

Affinity objects D2l Brightspace objects How this pairing syncs
Persons Contact records enriched with relationship intelligence, synced with CRMs and outreach tools. Assignments (Dropbox) Dropbox folders, submissions, and feedback; submission and evaluation data is read into reporting systems and feedback can be written back. Persons is specific to Affinity and Assignments (Dropbox) to D2l Brightspace — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Organizations Company records matched to accounts in other systems by domain. Groups and Sections Group categories, groups, and section membership within an org unit; enrollments are read and written to keep cohort assignments aligned. Organizations is specific to Affinity and Groups and Sections to D2l Brightspace — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Opportunities Deal records tracked on lists and synced with pipeline reporting. Users User accounts in the Learning Platform (lp) component; created, read, updated, and deleted through the Valence API and typically synced two-way with an SIS or HRIS. Opportunities is specific to Affinity and Users to D2l Brightspace — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Field Values Custom field data, either global or scoped to a list, mapped field-by-field in syncs. Enrollments Links between Users and Org Units; enroll/unenroll and batch-enrollment routes let rosters be written from an upstream system and read back for reporting. Field Values is specific to Affinity and Enrollments to D2l Brightspace — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Notes Meeting and call notes synced for record-keeping in other systems. Org Units The org structure — course offerings, sections, departments, and semesters; read for hierarchy and created/updated to provision courses from a database. Notes is specific to Affinity and Org Units to D2l Brightspace — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Interactions Automatically captured emails and meetings, read for activity reporting. Grades Grade objects, categories, schemes, and per-user grade values in the Learning Environment (le) component; values can be read out and written back onto the gradebook. Interactions is specific to Affinity and Grades to D2l Brightspace — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Affinity and D2l Brightspace

Each direction of the sync is driven by what the source system can signal and what the destination accepts — detection, delivery, and expected latency below.

Affinity D2l Brightspace Sub-second propagation

DetectionAffinity notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Webhook subscriptions for record events, supplemented by polling.

DeliveryEach detected change is written to D2l Brightspace through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

D2l Brightspace Affinity Sub-second propagation

DetectionD2l Brightspace notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Polling Valence endpoints with date/bookmark filters, differential Brightspace Data Sets (BDS) bulk exports for changed rows via the Data Hub, and.

DeliveryEach detected change is written to Affinity through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Rate-limit considerations

  • Affinity: Subject to the platform's published API rate limits.
  • D2l Brightspace: Per-caller token-bucket credit scheme; each route costs credits, responses carry X-Rate-Limit-Remaining, and over-quota calls return HTTP 429. D2L can adjust per-route credit costs.
What ships with Affinity ⇄ D2l Brightspace

Connect Affinity and D2l Brightspace for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Affinity–D2l Brightspace connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Affinity or D2l Brightspace instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

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Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Affinity or D2l Brightspace data changes, update records, fire webhooks, or kick off sequences without brittle API scripts.

At scale

Event queues

Handle millions of events per minute without losing a single Affinity or D2l Brightspace record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Affinity ⇄ D2l Brightspace sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Affinity and D2l Brightspace.

How the Affinity and D2l Brightspace connectors work

Affinity

Integration surface
REST API
Authentication
API key
Change detection
Webhook subscriptions for record events, supplemented by polling
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Subject to the platform's published API rate limits

D2l Brightspace

Integration surface
Brightspace (Valence) REST API split into independently-versioned Learning Platform (lp) and Learning Environment (le) components, plus the Data Hub / Data Export Framework and Brightspace Data Streams
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 authorization-code grant against the D2L auth service (auth.brightspace.com); a registered app holds a client ID and secret with per-scope grants (group:resource:action, e.g. users:userdata:read), short-lived access tokens, and refresh tokens
Change detection
Polling Valence endpoints with date/bookmark filters, differential Brightspace Data Sets (BDS) bulk exports for changed rows via the Data Hub, and Brightspace Data Streams webhooks (xAPI activity events) for near-real-time signals
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Per-caller token-bucket credit scheme; each route costs credits, responses carry X-Rate-Limit-Remaining, and over-quota calls return HTTP 429. D2L can adjust per-route credit costs.
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How it works

How to connect Affinity to D2l Brightspace — three steps, no code

Configure and sync within minutes, no code. Whether you sync 50k or 100M+ records, Stacksync handles the queues, infra, and plumbing. Integrations are non-invasive and need zero setup on your systems.

  1. 01

    Connect your apps

    Authenticate Affinity and D2l Brightspace with each platform's native method — OAuth, API keys, or service accounts — plus secure options like SSH tunneling, IP whitelisting, and VPC peering.

    • OAuth 2.0
    • SSH tunnel
    • VPC peering
    Affinity connected
    D2l Brightspace connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Affinity and D2l Brightspace objects to sync — Stacksync auto-detects both schemas, including custom fields where the platform exposes them. Sync to existing tables, or let Stacksync create new ones with ideal data types.

    • Standard objects
    • Custom objects
    • Auto-schema
    objects · Affinity ⇄ D2l Brightspace
    Customers 12,480
    Sales Orders 8,213
    Invoices 5,902
    Items 1,344
  3. 03

    Map fields

    Fields map automatically even when names and types differ. Stacksync handles transformation and type casting for you, zero configuration required.

    • Auto-map
    • Type casting
    • Transforms
    Affinity D2l Brightspace
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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