Creating a channel
Integrating PingFederate with Contentful requires a specific attribute mapping configuration.
About this task
For general information about creating a channel, see Managing channels in the PingFederate documentation
Steps
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On the Configure Channels → Target tab, click Create.
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On the Channel → Channel Info tab, in the Channel Name field, enter a name for the channel. Click Next.
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On the Source tab, from the Active Data Store list, select the data store that you created in Enabling provisioning and single sign-on in PingFederate. Click Next.
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On the Source Settings and Source Location tabs, complete the configuration based on your environment.
For help, see Modifying source settings and Specifying a source location in the PingFederate documentation.
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On the Attribute Mapping tab, configure the attributes as follows. You can use the following LDAP mappings, or adapt them for your data store type. Click Next.
For more information about user attributes, see the Users section of SCIM API endpoints in the Contentful documentation.
Contentful attribute Data store attribute userNamemailemailmaillastNamesnfirstNamegivenName -
On the Activation and Summary tab, for the Channel Status, select Active. Click Done.
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On the Manage Channels tab, click Done.