Notion cloud application

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Using Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), your users can use their Google Cloud credentials to sign in to enterprise-cloud applications.

Set up SSO via SAML for Notion

Here's how to set up single sign-on (SSO) via SAML for the Notion application.

Step 1: Get Google identity provider (IdP) information

1. Sign in to your Google Admin console.

   Sign in using an account with super administrator privileges (does not end in @gmail.com).

2. In the Admin console, go to Menu  AppsWeb and mobile apps.
3. Click Add appSearch for apps.
4. Enter Notion in the search field.
5. In the search results, hover over the Notion SAML app and click Select.
6. On the Google Identity Provider details page, download the IdP metadata file.
7. Open the downloaded file, GoogleIDPMetadata.xml in a compatible editor, then select and copy the contents of the file.
8. Leave the Admin console open,  you'll continue with the configuration wizard after performing the next step in the Notion application.

Step 2: Set up Notion as a SAML 2.0 service provider (SP)

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1. Open notion.so and sign in with your credentials.
2. In Notion, go to the Settings and Members tab, then select the Settings tab.
3. In the Allowed Email Domain section, remove all email domains.
4. Select the Identity & Provisioning tab.
5. Add a new domain and verify it. This should be the same as your Google Workspace domain.
6. In SAML Single sign-on (SSO) settings, move the Enable SAML SSO slider to On. This opens the SAML SSO Configuration dialog.
7. In the dialog, do the following:
   1. Under Identity Provider Details, select IDP metadata XML.
   2. Paste the contents of the GoogleIDPMetadata.xml file, (copied in step 1 above) into the IDP metadata XML text box.
   3. Copy and save the Assertion Consumer Service (ACS) URL. You'll need this when you complete the Google-side configuration in Admin console in step 3 below.
   4. Click Save Changes.
8. Ensure that the remaining options Login method, Automatic account creation and Linked workspaces contain the desired values for your configuration.

Step 3: Finish SSO configuration in Admin console

1. Return to the Admin console browser tab.
2. On the Google Identity Provider details page, click Continue.
3. On the Service provider details page, replace the ACS URL with the ACS URL you copied from Notion in Step 2 above. 
4. Click Continue.
5. On the Attribute Mapping page, click the Select field menu and map the following Google directory attributes to their corresponding Notion attributes. Note that firstName, lastName, and email are required attributes. 

   Google directory attribute	Notion attribute
   Basic Information > Primary Email	email
   Basic Information > First Name	firstName
   Basic Information > Last Name	lastName
   (Custom attribute - see note)	profilePhoto

   Note: The profilePhoto attribute can be used to add a user photo in Notion. To use it, create a custom attribute and populate it in the user profile with the URL path to the photo, then map the custom attribute to profilePhoto.

6. (Optional) Click Add Mapping to add any additional mappings you need.
7. (Optional) To enter group names that are relevant for this app:

   1. For Group membership (optional), click Search for a group, enter one or more letters of the group name, and select the group name.
   2. Add additional groups as needed (maximum of 75 groups).
   3. For App attribute, enter the service provider’s corresponding groups attribute name.

   Regardless of how many group names you enter, the SAML response will include only groups that a user is a member of (directly or indirectly). For more information, go to About group membership mapping.

8. Click Finish.

Step 4: Enable the Notion app

1. Sign in to your Google Admin console.

   Sign in using an account with super administrator privileges (does not end in @gmail.com).

2. In the Admin console, go to Menu  AppsWeb and mobile apps.
3. Select Notion.
4. Click User access.

5. To turn a service on or off for everyone in your organization, click On for everyone or Off for everyone, and then click Save.

6. (Optional) To turn a service on or off for an organizational unit:

   1. At the left, select the organizational unit.
   2. To change the Service status, select On or Off.
   3. Choose one:
      • If the Service status is set to Inherited and you want to keep the updated setting, even if the parent setting changes, click Override.
      • If the Service status is set to Overridden, either click Inherit to revert to the same setting as its parent, or click Save to keep the new setting, even if the parent setting changes.
        Note: Learn more about organizational structure.
7. To turn on a service for a set of users across or within organizational units, select an access group. For details, go to Use groups to customize service access.
8. Ensure that your Notion user account email IDs match those in your Google domain.

Step 5: Verify that the SSO is working

Notion supports both Identity Provider (IdP) initiated and Service Provider (SP) initiated SSO. Follow these steps to verify SSO in either mode:

IdP-initiated

1. Sign in to your Google Admin console.

   Sign in using an account with super administrator privileges (does not end in @gmail.com).

2. In the Admin console, go to Menu  AppsWeb and mobile apps.
3. Select Notion.
4. At the top left, click Test SAML login. 

   Notion should open in a separate tab. If it doesn’t, use the information in the resulting SAML error messages to update your IdP and SP settings as needed, then retest SAML login.

SP-initiated

1. Close all browser windows.
2. Open https://www.notion.so/login
3. On the Log in page, click continue with SAML SSO.
4. Enter your email address and click Continue with SAML. You are automatically redirected to the Google sign in page.
5. Enter your sign-in credentials.
6. After your sign-in credentials are authenticated, you are automatically redirected back to Notion.

Step 6: Set up auto-provisioning

As a super administrator, you can automatically provision users in the Notion application.

 

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