BetterWorks cloud application

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

Set up SSO via SAML for BetterWorks

Before configuring SSO, get your organization-specific SAML token from the customer success manager at BetterWorks.

Step 1: Set up Google as a SAML identity provider (IdP)

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 BetterWorks in the search field.
5. In the search results, hover over the BetterWorks SAML app and click Select.
6. On the Google Identity Provider details page, download the Metadata XML.
7. Click Continue.
   On the Service provider details page, the ACS URL and Entity ID fields are automatically populated.
8. Click Continue.
9. Map the SAML token you received from Betterworks as the attribute value to a custom attribute. On the Attribute Mapping page, click the Select field menu and map the following Google directory attributes to their corresponding BetterWorks attributes:

   Google directory attribute	BetterWorks attribute
   Basic Information > First Name	givenName
   Basic Information > Last Name	sn
   Basic Information > Primary Email	mail
   Basic Information > First Name	username

10. (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 groups attribute name of the corresponding service provider.

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

11. Click Finish.

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

Send the metadata downloaded from Google to your customer success manager at BetterWorks. Ask them to set up the SAML connection for your account. They'll give you a time when you can enable and test your SAML connection with Google.

Step 3: Enable the BetterWorks 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 BetterWorks.
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 BetterWorks user account email IDs match those in your Google domain.

Step 4: Verify that SSO is working

BetterWorks 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 BetterWorks.
4. At the top left, click Test SAML login. 

   BetterWorks 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://app.betterworks.com and attempt to sign in.  
   You should be redirected to the Google sign-in page.
3. Enter your username and password.
   After your credentials are authenticated, you are redirected to BetterWork cloud.

If the user account authenticated by Google IdP does not already exist in BetterWorks, a new account is automatically provisioned by BetterWorks for the signed-in user.

 

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