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Setting up a SAML application with ActiveDirectory, OneLogin, etc.

If your company uses Okta for Single Sign-on, please see here.

If your company uses another SAML application provider, such as ActiveDirectory, OneLogin, etc., here are the necessary steps in configuring an application to support SAML based Single Sign-On.

Technical Setup Instructions

Note that if your company uses a Custom Subdomain, you should use that instead of "app" in app.circa.co as seen below.

1) As the Identity Provider, please configure your server with:

2) Set NameID format to Email Address

3) Add two attribute statements:

  • “FirstName” set to user’s first name.
  • “LastName” set to user’s last name.

4) Finally, please contact us at help@simplecirca.com with the following information:

  • Identity Provider Certificate (.pem) → certificate
  • Identity Provider Sign In URL → target_url

Your SSO setup is almost completed. Just allow one business day for us to proceed and your team will be able to use SSO. We will notify you immediately when we have made the change.