hs3je (hs3je) asked a question.
Hi team,
We're trying to modify the User Activation email to direct a new user to our login page (Okta Sign In Widget) to set their password, instead of being directed to the Okta Console to set their password.
Context: our users are always invited to their team accounts from another user. We don't support self registration. A team mate or manager will invite the new user, trigger the activation email, and have the new user directed to our login page to set their password and sign in.
The benefit here will be having our users in our app when they set their password (i.e. on our login page) instead of being directed to the Okta console. We would prefer to prevent users from using the Okta console where possible.
Is it possible to modify the sign in widget to accept the activation token for the new user, and present them with the set password scene? Ideally it would be somewhat identical to the reset password flow except it would say 'Create Password' or something.
It doesn't appear to be a documented use case but wondering if anyone has managed to make this work?
Thank you for posting on the Okta Help Center.
We do offer the option to customize the activation emails under Settings -> Emails & SMS -> User Activation -> Edit.
This article can help you to understand much better about what changes can be done at the moment.
https://help.okta.com/en/prod/Content/Topics/Settings/Settings_Email.htm
As about the customization that you're asking for, we don't have an out of the box solution but there may be certain API calls that can be used in order to accomplish your scenario.
The best solution I can offer, from an Okta perspective, would be to involve our Professional Services as they are the ones that handle this kind of custom implementations.
Kind regards,
Cosmin Prahoveanu
Technical support engineer | Okta