Our WordPress Single Sign-On (SSO) Plugin for ClicData achieves secure SAML SSO login into ClicData using your WordPress credentials. Follow this setup guide to configure ClicData as a SAML Service Provider (SP) and WordPress as your Identity Provider (IDP) for seamless ClicData WordPress SSO Login.

Note: Premium Version of WP as SAML IDP plugin is required to set up SSO.

Pre-requisites: Download And Installation

To integrate the WordPress site as an Identity Provider, you will need to install the miniOrange Login using WordPress Users ( WP as SAML IDP ) plugin:

Login using WordPress Users ( WP as SAML IDP )

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Single Sign-On (SSO) login with WordPress Users into any Service Provider like Tableau, Zoho, Zoom, Moodle, Canvas LMS, Absorb LMS, TalentLMS, etc.

 Tested with 6.3.1

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Follow below steps to setup ClicData WordPress Single Sign-On (SSO) login

1. Setup ClicData as SP (Service Provider)

• Go to the WordPress IDP plugin, navigate to the IDP Metadata tab.
• Here, you can find the Identity Provider Metadata URL /XML Metadata or endpoints like IDP Entity ID, SAML Login URL, SAML Logout URL (Premium Feature), Certificate for SP configuration.


• In a new browser window, login to your ClicData account as an Administrator.
• You will be represented with the Home screen of ClicData.
• In the left-top corner, click on the menu button.
• Under the Account section, click on Account Settings option.

• In the Account Settings tab, click on Single Sign-On.

• Enable Single Sign-On by sliding a button and select SAML 2.0 as the Identity Provider type.

 Upload IDP Metadata

• Manual Configuration: In the SAML Configuration section, enter the required endpoints from the IDP Metadata tab of the plugin .

Entity Identifier	Copy and paste IDP Entity ID/Issuer
SignOn URL	Copy and paste SAML Login URL
Logout URL	Copy and paste SAML Logout URL

• Import Metadata file: You can download the IDP Metadata XML file and then upload in the ClicData (Service Provider) side by clicking on the Import Identity Provider Metadata option.


• In the User Attributes section, fill in the fields as you configured them in the plugin section.


E-mail	mail
First Name	givenName
Last Name	sn
Can Sign In?	yes

• Keep the Default role of new users to Viewers.

You have successfully configured ClicData as Service Provider.

2. Configure WordPress (WP) as IdP (Identity Provider)

• In the WordPress IDP plugin, navigate to the Service Provider tab and enter the values corresponding to the information from ClicData.
  

Service Provider Name	ClicData
SP Entity ID or Issuer	Copy and paste the SAML Entity ID from ClicData.
ACS URL	Copy and paste the ACS URL from ClicData.
NameID Format	urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.1:nameid-format:emailAddress
Response Signed	Checked


• Click on the Save button to save your configuration.

3. Attribute Mapping (This is a premium feature)

• In the WordPress IDP plugin, navigate to the Attribute/Role Mapping tab.
• In the User Attributes section, enter the following information and click on Save .
• You can also add more attributes by clicking on + sign to add attributes.

Name	User Meta Data
mail	user_email
givenName	first_name
sn	last_name

• In the CUSTOM ATTRIBUTES section, set the CanSignIn flag as yes.

Name	Custom Attribute Value
CanSignIn	yes

4. Testing SSO

• Click on validate at the bottom, it will redirect you to the WordPress page where user have to enter the credentials and then it will redirect back to the ClicData.

Note:For the validation to work, the current user logged in ClicData must be present in the Wordpress user directory of people or in one of their integrations with the exact same email address.

• On authentication, the Validation should turn to green.

In this Guide, you have successfully integrated ClicData - SAML Single Sign-On (SSO) with plugin- Login using WordPress Users (WP as SAML IDP). Configuring ClicData as SP and WordPress as IDP. This solution ensures that you are ready to roll out secure Single Sign-On (SSO) access with SAML 2.0 Authentication into ClicData using WordPress login credentials.

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