---
title: Choosing an event trigger
description: Choose whether PingFederate initiates user provisioning only when the user identifier is new, or every time your site receives a single sign-on (SSO) token.
component: pingfederate
version: 13.1
page_id: pingfederate:administrators_reference_guide:help_userprovisioningtasklet_eventtriggerstate
canonical_url: https://docs.pingidentity.com/pingfederate/13.1/administrators_reference_guide/help_userprovisioningtasklet_eventtriggerstate.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:
---

# Choosing an event trigger

Choose whether PingFederate initiates user provisioning only when the user identifier is new, or every time your site receives a single sign-on (SSO) token.

## About this task

If you choose to have PingFederate initiate user provisioning every time your site receives an SSO token, for all SSO tokens, an existing user account is always updated with incoming attributes.

![Scree capture of the Event Trigger tab showing the two trigger options.](_images/sqb1564003520072.jpg)

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| - | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
|   | This tab does not appear for a Microsoft SQL Server datastore if provisioning is accomplished using a stored procedure, because the procedure is always called for all SSO tokens. The procedure should handle both provisioning new users and updating existing ones. |

## Steps

* On the **Event Trigger** tab, in the **Specify the trigger that initiates a user-provisioning event** section, select one of the following:

  ### Choose from:

  * **Only SAML Assertations Containing a New User ID**

  * **All SAML Assertations**