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Configuring Identity Providers for your Account or Sites

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By default, access to your ScreenSteps Admin area and the published sites are controlled using a ScreenSteps username/password.

This article will explain the other Identity Provider (IDP) options you have (e.g. single sign-on) and show you where you can configure them.

Navigate to Site Access

Access to your sites and the Content Management and Admin Centers is controlled in the Site Access area.

Account > Site Access

Identify the site you want to modify

You will see three  sections:

  1. Content Management and Admin Centers (e.g. the Admin area of ScreenSteps)
  2. Primary Site
  3. Other Sites

The Identity Provider (IDP) column for each of these sections allows you to customize how users log in to your ScreenSteps resources.

Site Access

Which Identify Provider would you like to modify?

Click the pencil icon in the Content Management and Admin Centers area

Site Access | ScreenSteps

Is the Primary Site domain the same as the Content Management and Admin Centers' domain?

Click the pencil icon in the Content Management and Admin Centers area

Since the domains are the same, editing the Content Management and Admin Centers area will also apply to the published primary site.

Site Access | ScreenSteps

Click the pencil icon for the primary site

Do you want to apply the same Identity Provider from the "Content Management and Admin Centers" to one of the Other Sites?

Edit the Identity Provider

Click the pencil icon
Select Account Domain
Click Done
Site Access | ScreenSteps

Edit the Identity Provider

Site Access | ScreenSteps

Select the identity provider

Note: If you are setting up Single Sign-on with a third-party identity provider such as:

  • Microsoft Entra ID,
  • Salesforce,
  • Okta,
  • OneLogin,
  • Google Workspace,
  • etc.

then select SAML.

Which Identity Provider would you like to configure?

Select ScreenSteps username/password

  • This is the default Identity Provider supplied by ScreenSteps.
  • Users who log into with a ScreenSteps username/password are considered local users and their username/password will be stored in the ScreenSteps system.

Select ScreenSteps username/password from the Login through menu to use this option.

ScreenSteps Identity Provider

Select SAML

SAML is the preferred method when configuring a Single Sign-on Identity Provider with ScreenSteps. Many 3rd party Identity Providers support SAML and this will not require any additional programming from your team.

Select SAML from the Login through menu to use this option.

For detailed instructions on setting up SAML refer to the Set up Single Sign-on help article.

SAML Identity Provider

Select Remote Authentication

Remote Authentication is ScreenSteps specific and allows your team write code in your application to control user access to ScreenSteps. Only use this method if your system does not support SAML or if you have specific customization needs.

Select Remote Authentication from the Login through menu to use this option.

For detailed instructions on setting up Remote Authentication refer to the Set up Single Sign-on help article.

Remote Auth Identity Provider

Select Account Domain

Sites can be configured to login through the Account Domain.

ScreenSteps will give a user access to the site if the user has already logged in to the identity provider being used by your account domain (the domain used for the Content Mangement and Admin Centers). This can be useful if you want to share a Single Sign-on Identity Provider with your account domain. It is also useful if you wants users to be logged into any of your sites if they are logged into the account domain.

Select Account Domain from the Login through menu to use this option.

Account Identity Provider
Congratulations, you are done!

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