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title: SAML 2.0 and PingAccess templates
description: Add, update, or delete SAML and PingAccess templates to meet your needs.
component: pingcentral
version: 1.11
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docs_for_agents: https://developer.pingidentity.com/build-with-ai/docs-for-agents.md
revdate: December 14, 2023
superseded_by: https://docs.pingidentity.com/pingcentral/2.2/pingcentral_for_iam_administrators/pingcentral_saml_pa_templates.html
section_ids:
  creating-saml-application-templates: Creating SAML application templates
  steps: Steps
  result: Result:
  result-2: Result:
  updating-saml-and-pingaccess-templates: Updating SAML and PingAccess templates
  steps-2: Steps
---

# SAML 2.0 and PingAccess templates

Add, update, or delete SAML and PingAccess templates to meet your needs.

To add a SAML or PingAccess template, select a configuration to replicate. PingCentral retrieves this configuration and saves it as a template, which serves as a building block for future applications.

* Creating SAML templates

* Creating PingAccess templates

* Updating SAML and PingAccess templates

## Creating SAML application templates

### Steps

1. All templates are listed on the **Templates** page. To add a new template, click **Add Template**.

2. On the **Integration Type** page, select **SAML**. Click **Next**.

3. On the **Select SAML Connection** page, select the PingFederate environment that hosts the connection you want to use as a template, and then select the connection from the **Connection** list.

   #### Result:

   Details regarding the connection display.

   ![This example shows the information that displays when a SAML connection is selected.](_images/ius1569688182345.png)

4. To see the JSON for the SAML connection, click **Review Configuration**.

5. On the **Name Template** page, add a name and description for your template.

   This information will help application owners select the appropriate template.

6. Select an icon to represent your template.

   The icon you choose is shown with the template name and description.

7. Click **Save and Close**.

   #### Result:

   You see the new template in the list of available application templates. Application owners see the new template on the**Select Template** page.

   ![This example shows the Select Template screen, which lists the templates available for application owners to use.](../_images/jwq1600185986194.jpg)

   For SAML SP connection templates, the following items are saved:

   * Connection information

   * Attribute names defined in the associated authentication policy contract

## Updating SAML and PingAccess templates

### Steps

1. To update a SAML or PingAccess template, click the **Expand** icon associated with the template and click the **Pencil** icon.

   All of the editable information is on one page.

2. Update the information in the **Name** and **Description** fields or select a new icon to represent the template.

3. Click **Save**.