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New Field - Authentication ID

February 16, 2019
Carlyn Manly
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Carlyn Manly

To provide an alternative to using the Primary email field values to uniquely identify people who need to be granted access to Xurrent after an organization’s identity provider has sent a SAML request to Xurrent’s single sign-on functionality, a new field has been added to the Person form. This field is labeled ā€˜Authentication ID’.

Authentication ID field on the Person form

The value in the Authentication ID field needs to be unique within the Xurrent account. If the person record is stored in a directory account or a support domain account, then the value must be unique within the entire directory structure.

Once the Authentication ID field has been populated in the person records, these field values can be used by Xurrent’s single sign-on functionality. This is done by selecting the option ā€˜Authentication ID’ in the Identifier field of the ā€˜Single Sign-On’ section of the Settings console.

Identifier set to Authentication ID in single sign on settings

When the option ā€˜Authentication ID’ is selected in the Identifier field, Xurrent will use the identifier that is provided in the SAML responses from the organization’s identity provider to find a match in the Authentication ID field of one of the organization’s person records.