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With Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), your users can sign in to enterprise cloud applications with their Google Cloud credentials.
Set up SSO via SAML for Monday
Step 1: Set up Google as a SAML identity provider (IdP)- Sign in with a super administrator account to the Google Admin console.
If you aren’t using a super administrator account, you can’t complete these steps.
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- Click Add app Search for apps.
- Enter Mondayin the search field.
- In the search results, hover over the MondaySAML app and click Select.
- On the Google Identity Provider detailspage:
- Copy and save the SSO URLand Entity ID.
- Download the Certificate.
- Click Continue.
- On the Service provider detailspage, edit the ACS URLby replacing {your-domain} with your Monday installation's subdomain.
- Click Continue.
- (Optional) To map Google directory attributes to the corresponding app attributes, in the Attribute Mappingwindow:
- Click Add Mapping.
- Click Select fieldselect a Google directory attribute.
- For App attributes, enter the corresponding app attribute.
- (Optional) To enter group names that are relevant for this app:
- For Group membership (optional), click Search for a group, enter one or more letters of the group name, and select the group name.
- Add additional groups as needed (maximum of 75 groups).
- For App attribute, enter the corresponding groups attribute name of the service provider.
Regardless of how many group names you enter, the SAML response includes only groups that a user is a member of (directly or indirectly). For more information, go to About group membership mapping .
- On the Attribute mappingpage, click Finish.
- Open a new incognito browser window and sign in into Mondayas an administrator.
- Navigate to Admin Security Security & Authentication Settings.
- In the SAMLsection, select the Custom SAML 2.0radio button.
- Enter the following information copied from Google in Step 1 above:
- SAML SSO Url: the SSO URL.
- Identity provider issuer: the Entity ID.
- Public certificate: the certificate content.
- Click Activate.
- Sign in with a super administrator account to the Google Admin console.
If you aren’t using a super administrator account, you can’t complete these steps.
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- Select Monday.
- Click User access.
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To turn a service on or off for everyone in your organization, click On for everyoneor Off for everyone, and then click Save.
- (Optional) To turn a service on or off for an organizational unit:
- At the left, select the organizational unit.
- To change the Service status, select Onor Off.
- Choose one:
- If the Service status is set to Inherited and you want to keep the updated setting, even if the parent setting changes, click Override.
- If the Service status is set to Overridden, either click Inheritto revert to the same setting as its parent, or click Saveto keep the new setting, even if the parent setting changes.
Learn more about organizational structure .
- (Optional) To turn on a service for a set of users across or within organizational units, select an access group. For details, go to Use groups to customize service access .
- Ensure that your Monday user account email IDs match those in your Google domain.
Step 4: Verify that the SSO is working
Monday supports both Identity Provider (IdP) initiated and Service Provider (SP) initiated SSO. Follow these steps to verify SSO in either mode:
IdP-initiated
- Sign in with a super administrator account to the Google Admin console.
If you aren’t using a super administrator account, you can’t complete these steps.
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- Select Monday.
- At the top left, click Test SAML login.
Monday should open in a separate tab. If it doesn’t, use the information in the resulting SAML error messages to update your IdP and SP settings as needed, then retest SAML login.
SP-initiated
- Close all browser windows.
- Open https://{your-domain}.monday.com/saml/saml_callback and attempt to sign in with the Google email ID of the user. You should be redirected to the Google sign-in page.
- Enter your username and password.
After your credentials are authenticated, you are redirected back to Monday.
As a super administrator, you can automatically provision users in the Monday application.
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