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tajinders0001
December 8, 2021
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How to create System Administrator account via SAML?

  • December 8, 2021
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I am looking to use SAML 'Attribute Mapping' configuration to 'create new users upon sign in'.

Is there a way I could create a user as a system administrator based on SAML attribute mapping?

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saicharanv1380
September 12, 2022

Hi TJ, Did you found the solution for this? I have the same question.

tajinders0001
September 13, 2022

No Saicharan,

We cannot create system admin via SAML. So we added a custom field value via SAML and ran a batch process to verify and convert the user to admin based on the custom field value.

Hope it helps

August 28, 2024

TJ, how did you do that?  I have a similar question.  I would like to use a SAML Group claim, like <Appian Admin> so that when a user signs in, and they are in that IdP Group (from Azure Entra ID) that they are created as an admin console admin...