How to add the Federation ID attribute for SalesForce endpoint

Products

• CA Identity Manager
• CA Identity Governance
• CA Identity Portal

Issue/Introduction

The SalesForce Federation ID value is used to identify a user for federated authentication single sign-on. It is used to map SalesForce users with an Active Directory users in order that the user can be authenticated with an Active Directory (AD) password.  Unfortunately there is no default option in the CA Identity Manager SalesForce endpoint to include the "Federation ID".

Is there a way to incorporate the Federation ID attribute into CA Identity Manager?

Environment

CA Identity Manager 14.2
CA Identity Suite 14.2

Resolution

1. Open CA Identity Manager connectorXpress and connect to the Provisioning Server (PS) and right click on “Salesforce” then select “create project” (see screenshot below.
 
2. Once project has been created then expend ‘Classes’  -> expand ‘User Account’  -> click on ‘Attribute’ -> Scroll it down and add the attribute.

Federation ID                  String             FederationIdentifier

3. Right click on “Salesforce” then select ‘Deploy metadata’

4. Increase the new meta data version in next step (As a best practice increase the minor version ex:  from  5.0 to 5.1).

5. Click Yes . Make sure it is completed successfully.

6. Restart Provisioning server and open new provisioning manager ONLY (not IM UI). 

7. Restart JCS (Java Connector Service)

8. View the properties of an account. 

 

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