Configuring SuccessFactors Password authentication

The SuccessFactors Password security provider is a forms-based authentication provider. It uses the SuccessFactors SOAP API to validate user-supplied credentials.

Requirements

To proceed, you will need the following:

• An existing SuccessFactors account.
• Administrator access to Vinyl.

Register SuccessFactors as a Vinyl security provider

To register SuccessFactors as a Vinyl security provider, you will need the following information:

	Example	Notes
Company ID		The SuccessFactors company identifier.
Instance API URL	https://api8.successfactors.com/	SuccessFactors SOAP API root URL. The URL depends on the data center hosting the SuccessFactors instance. See http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-65363 for more information.

Note

The URL should not include the path (e.g. /sfapi/v1/soap). Vinyl will append the path.

To register SuccessFactors as a Vinyl Security Provider:

1. Log into Vinyl as an Administrator
2. Navigate to the IDE
3. Click the Security Providers button
4. In the Data Source Authentication panel, click the + Data Source Authentication button

5. Provide the following:

   • Name: A unique security provider name.

     Example: SuccessFactors

   • Type: SuccessFactors Password

   • Enabled: Checked

   • Priority: A unique integer between 10 and 100. Note that this value must be unique.

     Example: 40

   • Show On Login Form: Checked

6. Click the Save button

7. Set the following properties (In the Properties panel, click the + Property button → Select the Parameter → Provide the Value → Click the Save icon):

   • CompanyID: Company ID
   • InstanceApiUrl: Instance API URL