---
title: Configuring an error handling method
description: If user provisioning fails for any reason during single sign-on (SSO) events, you can choose to continue the process by passing the user's attributes to your target application or to abort the SSO transaction.
component: pingfederate
version: 13.1
page_id: pingfederate:administrators_reference_guide:help_userprovisioningtasklet_errorhandlingstate
canonical_url: https://docs.pingidentity.com/pingfederate/13.1/administrators_reference_guide/help_userprovisioningtasklet_errorhandlingstate.html
llms_txt: https://docs.pingidentity.com/pingfederate/llms.txt
docs_for_agents: https://developer.pingidentity.com/build-with-ai/docs-for-agents.md
revdate: July 5, 2022
section_ids:
  about-this-task: About this task
  steps: Steps
  choose-from: Choose from:
---

# Configuring an error handling method

If user provisioning fails for any reason during single sign-on (SSO) events, you can choose to continue the process by passing the user's attributes to your target application or to abort the SSO transaction.

## About this task

When SSO is aborted, the user is redirected to an error page and the failure is written to the server log.

![Screenshot of the Error Handling tab showing the options for how the server should handle a failure.](_images/iex1564003521102.jpg)

## Steps

* On the **Error Handling** tab, in the **How should the server handle a failure in a user provisioning request?** section, select one of the following:

  ### Choose from:

  * **Send the User's Attributes to the Target Application**

  * **Abort the SSO Transaction**