DoganA.57760 (Customer) asked a question.
Hello,
I am trying to setup a mapping rule using Okta Expression Language for a specific field, and currently encountering an issue when using the user.getGroups() function, it seems to not be available/supported in this context while supposedly possible when reading the documentation page :
I do not observe this behaviour with other functions;
Hey Dogan - It seems your expression isn't written correctly. Are you trying to list all the groups a user is assigned to? Or what exactly is your use case?
This expression for example would return a string of users groups, filtered to 100: getFilteredGroups(".*", 100)
Hello @HarryL.05482 (Anthropic Identity),
Here is what I had inputed in the field: user.getGroups()[0].id
It was a simplified use case of what I was trying to do in order to replicate the issue easily. So it should return the id of the first group of the user.
What I am trying to achieve, is to get all the Group names a user is assigned to, and join them with quotes;
e.g; User John Doe has groups Editor and Admin - expected result => Editor,Admin )
What is the actual use case ? Are you looking to send all the groups a user has to an application? SAML Assertion? Or you just want this as a part of their profile?
Yes the point is to send the Groups to an application, the mapping rule is set to populate a custom field on an OIN User Profile, which is used for SCIM/user provisioning.
Groups in Okta are mapped to "teams" in my integrated app. Users can have multiple teams
Got it! If it is a SAML application, you could add the expression language as a SAML Attribute which may work better. That way when a user logs in, it sends the groups in the SAML assertion. This also depends if this works for your application.
To do this: you would go to the Application in Okta, navigate to the "Authentication" tab, select edit, go under the SAML 2.0 configuration and add group attribute statements or attribute statements.
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Got it! If it is a SAML application, you could add the expression language as a SAML Attribute which may work better. That way when a user logs in, it sends the groups in the SAML assertion. This also depends if this works for your application.
To do this: you would go to the Application in Okta, navigate to the "Authentication" tab, select edit, go under the SAML 2.0 configuration and add group attribute statements or attribute statements.