TextMagic 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 TextMagic

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 and then Appsand thenWeb and mobile apps.
  3. Click Add appand thenSearch for apps.
  4. Enter TextMagic in the search field.
  5. In the search results, hover over the TextMagic SAML app and click Select.
  6. On the Google Identity Provider details page, download the certificate and copy the SSO URL and EntityID.
  7. Click Continue.
  8. On the Service provider details page, click Continue.
  9. (Optional) To map Google directory attributes to the corresponding app attributes, in the Attribute Mapping window:
    1. Click Add Mapping.
    2. Click Select fieldand thenselect a Google directory attribute.
    3. For App attributes, enter the corresponding app attribute.
  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. On the Attribute mapping page, click Finish.
Step 2: Set up TextMagic as a SAML 2.0 service provider (SP)
  1. Open a new incognito browser window.
  2. Sign in to https://my.textmagic.com/login with your organization's TextMagic administrator account.
  3. Click on your account name. 
  4. Click Account and then Settings.
  5. Click Single Sign-On (SSO).
  6. Click Edit.
  7. In the Identity provider Entity ID field, enter the Entity ID you copied in step 1.
  8. In the Identity provider SSO URL field, enter the SSO URL you copied in step 1.
  9. In the Public x509 certificate field, paste the content of the certificate you downloaded in Step 1.
  10. Click Save.
Step 3: Enable the TextMagic 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 and then Appsand thenWeb and mobile apps.
  3. Select TextMagic.
  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 TextMagic user account email IDs match those in your Google domain.
Step 4: Verify that the SSO is working

TextMagic 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 and then Appsand thenWeb and mobile apps.
  3. Select TextMagic.
  4. At the top left, click Test SAML login

    TextMagic 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. Open https://my.textmagic.com/login/sso. You should be automatically redirected to the Google sign in page.
  2. Enter your username and password.

After your credentials are authenticated, you are automatically redirected back to TextMagic.

 


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