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title: SAML 2.0 and PingAccess templates
description: Add, update, or delete SAML and PingAccess templates to meet your needs, or revert them to previous versions, as necessary.
component: pingcentral
version: 2.2
page_id: pingcentral:pingcentral_for_iam_administrators:pingcentral_saml_pa_templates
canonical_url: https://docs.pingidentity.com/pingcentral/2.2/pingcentral_for_iam_administrators/pingcentral_saml_pa_templates.html
revdate: December 14, 2023
section_ids:
  adding-saml-application-templates: Adding SAML application templates
  steps: Steps
  result: Result:
  result-2: Result:
  updating-saml-and-pingaccess-templates: Updating SAML and PingAccess templates
  steps-2: Steps
  reverting-templates-to-previous-versions: Reverting templates to previous versions
  steps-3: Steps
  result-3: Result:
---

# SAML 2.0 and PingAccess templates

Add, update, or delete SAML and PingAccess templates to meet your needs, or revert them to previous versions, as necessary.

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.

## Adding 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.

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   |   | If an environment is offline or if a PingCentral administrator has set the environment status to **Disabled**, you will be unable to select a disabled environment for template creation. |

   #### 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. **Optional:** If multiple authentication policy contracts exist in the underlying connection, choose the desired contract from the **Authentication Policy Contracts** list.

8. 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 and, if applicable, attribute sources defined in the associated authentication policy contract

## Updating SAML and PingAccess templates

Applications based on outdated templates have **Outdated Template** icons associated with them, which inform application owners of changes.

### Steps

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

2. If the template is based on an outdated configuration, you can click the **Sync** button to sync the template with the latest configuration available.

3. Click the **Pencil** icon.

   All of the editable information is on one page.

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

5. Click **Save**.

## Reverting templates to previous versions

The history of each template is available to review and compare with previous versions. You can see which administrator modified the template configuration or policy contract, when it was modified, and details regarding these modifications. You can revert templates to previous versions if necessary.

### Steps

1. To review the template history, click the **Expand** icon associated with the template, and then click the **History** tab.

2. Click the **Details** link associated with each template version to see its configuration.

3. To restore this version as the current version, click **Restore This Version**.

   #### Result:

   A new version of the template is created that matches the configuration of the version that you want to restore.

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   |   | The template revision numbers increment on a system-wide level, not on a per-template basis. So the first time any template in PingCentral is changed, it will have a revision of 1. A change made to a completely different template results in a revision of 6, and so forth. Reverting a template generates another revision, which again increments on a system-wide basis. |