Authentication providers allow you to configure external identity providers to authenticate users in your Salesforce org. This feature allows users to log in to Salesforce using their credentials from another trusted system, streamlining the login experience and improving security. This provider is particularly useful when users already haveaccounts with external identity providers, and you want to integrate with their existing authentication mechanisms.
Prerequisites
Field
Description
Consumer Key
Consumer key and consumer secret you generated while configuring Conga API-to-API connection after onboarding your tenant (refer to thetenant onboarding topic).
Go toSetup. In the Quick Find box, Enter Auth. Providers and click Auth. Providers in the suggestions. The Authentication Providers page is displayed.
ClickNewand select Open ID Connect from the Provider Type drop-down menu.
Enter the name, which must be the same as the admin setting name created in the previous topic (Creating a New Admin Setting). For example, APTS_RLPInstanceSettings.
The URL Suffix name is generated automatically based on the name of the auth. provider.
Enter the connected environment's consumer key and consumer secret, authorize endpoint URL, and token endpoint URL, as mentioned in the prerequisites. Leave the remaining fields as they are.