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Just-In-Time User Creation
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In order to use this feature, be sure to enable external authorization for your account.
Just-in-Time user creation enables you to create a user's account in SmarterU at the time of an SSO request. SmarterU has tested the following identity providers:
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Setting Up Just-in-Time User Creation
BEFORE YOU BEGIN
You'll need to copy the IDP metadata from the SSO provider.
To configure Just-in-Time user creation in SmarterU:
- Edit your account's settings.
- Expand the External Authorization accordion and enable SAML for your SmarterU account.
- Paste the IDP metadata that you copied from your SSO provider into your SmarterU account's IdP Metadata setting.
- Search the IDP metadata that you pasted into the IdP Metadata setting for:
<md:NameIDFormat>- Just before the first occurrence of <md:NameIDFormat>, copy and paste the following:
<Attribute xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:assertion" Name="FirstName" NameFormat="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:attrname-format:uri" FriendlyName="GivenName"/>
<Attribute xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:assertion" Name="LastName" NameFormat="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:attrname-format:uri" FriendlyName="Surname"/>
- Refer to SSO SAML 2.0 for details on the various settings. At a minimum, you'll need to check the Enable Just In Time User Creation checkbox.
The account invitation email is not sent to users created with Just-in-Time User Creation.
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