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Tableau Online Automated User Sync/Provisioning into WordPress using SCIM

Configure real-time WordPress - Tableau Online user provisioning using SCIM. Our WordPress (WP) SCIM plugin allows you to automate user creation, update and delete user information from the WordPress (WP) site to your Tableau Online in real time. This guide will enable you to configure SCIM user provisioning for your Tableau Online site using WordPress as the Identity Provider, to achieve seamless automated user sync between your WordPress site and Tableau Online .

Note: Tableau Online is now known as Tableau Cloud.

Features

miniorange img The following provisioning features are supported:

Push New Users : New users created through WordPress will also be created in the Tableau Online site.
Push Profile Updates (Premium Feature): Updates made to the user's profile through WordPress will be pushed to the Tableau Online site
Push User Deactivation (Premium Feature): Deleting your users in your WordPress (WP) site will automatically delete the same user from Tableau Online site as well.

Pre-requisites : Download And Installation

To configure Tableau Online as SCIM Server, you will need to install the miniOrange SCIM user provisioning plugin:

WordPress Tableau Online SCIM User Sync/Provisioning

SCIM user provisioning

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Get this plugin

To get the premium SCIM User Provisioning plugin, please contact us at samlsupport@xecurify.com

Follow the steps below for configuring WordPress (WP) SCIM user provisioning in Tableau Online

Step 1: Configure Tableau Online for SCIM provisioning

Go to Tableau Online portal and login with the administrator account.
You will be presented with the home screen of Tableau Online .

In the left panel, click on the Settings tab.

Under, the Aunthentication tab scroll down to the Automatic Provisioning and Group Synchronization (SCIM) section and select Enable SCIM option.
You will get the Base URL and Secret token keep that handy as it will be used to configure the SCIM Client in the user provisioning plugin.

Step 2: Configure WP SCIM user provisioning plugin

Navigate to the SCIM Client tab of the SCIM User Provisioning plugin.

Click on Add SCIM Configuration.
Now paste the SCIM Base URL and Bearer token that you copied from Tableau Online and click on Save.

Navigate to the user's tab in your WordPress site and add a New User.

Provide the required information.

Note: Only “Activated” users are synced to Tableau Online if you have enabled “Self-registration” on your WordPress.
Switch to the tableau console and under the Users tab, you can see the user that you have created at the WordPress site is synced on Tableau site as well.

With this guide, we have successfully configured SCIM user provisioning between Tableau Online and WordPress (WP) as the Identity Provider (IDP) using the WordPress SCIM plugin. This solution ensures that you are ready to roll out seamless and real-time Tableau WordPress SCIM user provisioning within minutes.