Tutorial: Configure Clarizen One for automatic user provisioning
This tutorial describes the steps you need to perform in both Clarizen One and Microsoft Entra ID to configure automatic user provisioning. When configured, Microsoft Entra ID automatically provisions and deprovisions users and groups to Clarizen One by using the Microsoft Entra provisioning service. For information on what this service does, how it works, and frequently asked questions, see Automate user provisioning and deprovisioning to software as a service (SaaS) applications with Microsoft Entra ID.
Capabilities supported
- Create users in Clarizen One.
- Remove users in Clarizen One when they don't require access anymore.
- Keep user attributes synchronized between Microsoft Entra ID and Clarizen One.
- Provision groups and group memberships in Clarizen One.
- Single sign-on (SSO) to Clarizen One is recommended.
Prerequisites
The scenario outlined in this tutorial assumes that you already have the following prerequisites:
- A Microsoft Entra tenant.
- A user account in Microsoft Entra ID with permission to configure provisioning. Examples are Application administrator, Cloud Application administrator, Application owner, or Global administrator.
- A user account in Clarizen One with Integration User and Lite Admin permissions.
Step 1: Plan your provisioning deployment
- Learn about how the provisioning service works.
- Determine who will be in scope for provisioning.
- Determine what data to map between Microsoft Entra ID and Clarizen One.
Step 2: Configure Clarizen One to support provisioning with Microsoft Entra ID
Select one of the four following Tenant URLs according to your Clarizen One environment and data center:
- US Production data center: https://servicesapp2.clarizen.com/scim/v2
- EU Production data center: https://serviceseu1.clarizen.com/scim/v2
- US Sandbox data center: https://servicesapp.clarizentb.com/scim/v2
- EU Sandbox data center: https://serviceseu.clarizentb.com/scim/v2
Generate an API key. This value will be entered in the Secret Token box on the Provisioning tab of your Clarizen One application.
Step 3: Add Clarizen One from the Microsoft Entra application gallery
Add Clarizen One from the Microsoft Entra application gallery to start managing provisioning to Clarizen One. If you've previously set up Clarizen One for SSO, you can use the same application. When you test out the integration initially, create a separate app. To learn more about how to add an application from the gallery, see Add an application to your Microsoft Entra tenant.
Step 4: Define who will be in scope for provisioning
With the Microsoft Entra provisioning service, you can scope who will be provisioned based on assignment to the application or based on attributes of the user or group. If you choose to scope who will be provisioned to your app based on assignment, follow the steps in Manage user assignment for an app in Microsoft Entra ID to assign users and groups to the application. If you choose to scope who will be provisioned based solely on attributes of the user or group, use a scoping filter as described in Attribute-based application provisioning with scoping filters.
- When you assign users and groups to Clarizen One, you must select a role other than Default Access. Users with the default access role are excluded from provisioning and will be marked as not effectively entitled in the provisioning logs. If the only role available on the application is the default access role, you can update the application manifest to add more roles.
- Start small. Test with a small set of users and groups before you roll out to everyone. When scope for provisioning is set to assigned users and groups, you can maintain control by assigning one or two users or groups to the app. When scope is set to all users and groups, you can specify an attribute-based scoping filter.
Step 5: Configure automatic user provisioning to Clarizen One
This section guides you through the steps to configure the Microsoft Entra provisioning service to create, update, and disable users or groups in TestApp based on user or group assignments in Microsoft Entra ID.
Configure automatic user provisioning for Clarizen One in Microsoft Entra ID
Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.
Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications.
In the applications list, select Clarizen One.
Select the Provisioning tab.
Set Provisioning Mode to Automatic.
Under the Admin Credentials section, input your Clarizen One Tenant URL and Secret Token. Select Test Connection to ensure Microsoft Entra ID can connect to Clarizen One. If the connection fails, ensure your Clarizen One account has admin permissions and try again.
In the Notification Email box, enter the email address of a person or group who should receive the provisioning error notifications. Select the Send an email notification when a failure occurs check box.
Select Save.
Under the Mappings section, select Synchronize Microsoft Entra users to Clarizen One.
Review the user attributes that are synchronized from Microsoft Entra ID to Clarizen One in the Attribute-Mapping section. The attributes selected as Matching properties are used to match the user accounts in Clarizen One for update operations. If you change the matching target attribute, you must ensure that the Clarizen One API supports filtering users based on that attribute. Select the Save button to commit any changes.
Attribute Type userName String displayName String active Boolean title String emails[type eq "work"].value String emails[type eq "home"].value String emails[type eq "other"].value String preferredLanguage String name.givenName String name.familyName String name.formatted String name.honorificPrefix String name.honorificSuffix String addresses[type eq "other"].formatted String addresses[type eq "work"].formatted String addresses[type eq "work"].country String addresses[type eq "work"].region String addresses[type eq "work"].locality String addresses[type eq "work"].postalCode String addresses[type eq "work"].streetAddress String phoneNumbers[type eq "work"].value String phoneNumbers[type eq "mobile"].value String phoneNumbers[type eq "fax"].value String phoneNumbers[type eq "home"].value String phoneNumbers[type eq "other"].value String phoneNumbers[type eq "pager"].value String externalId String nickName String locale String roles[primary eq "True".type] String roles[primary eq "True".value] String timezone String userType String urn:ietf:params:scim:schemas:extension:enterprise:2.0:User:department String urn:ietf:params:scim:schemas:extension:enterprise:2.0:User:employeeNumber String urn:ietf:params:scim:schemas:extension:enterprise:2.0:User:manager Reference urn:ietf:params:scim:schemas:extension:enterprise:2.0:User:costCenter String urn:ietf:params:scim:schemas:extension:enterprise:2.0:User:division String urn:ietf:params:scim:schemas:extension:enterprise:2.0:User:division String Under the Mappings section, select Synchronize Microsoft Entra groups to Clarizen One.
Review the group attributes that are synchronized from Microsoft Entra ID to Clarizen One in the Attribute-Mapping section. The attributes selected as Matching properties are used to match the groups in Clarizen One for update operations. Select the Save button to commit any changes.
Attribute Type displayName String externalId String members Reference To configure scoping filters, see the instructions in the Scoping filter tutorial.
To enable the Microsoft Entra provisioning service for Clarizen One, change Provisioning Status to On in the Settings section.
Define the users or groups that you want to provision to Clarizen One by selecting the desired values in Scope in the Settings section.
When you're ready to provision, select Save.
This operation starts the initial synchronization cycle of all users and groups defined in Scope in the Settings section. The initial cycle takes longer to perform than subsequent cycles, which occur approximately every 40 minutes as long as the Microsoft Entra provisioning service is running.
Step 6: Monitor your deployment
After you've configured provisioning, use the following resources to monitor your deployment.
- Use the provisioning logs to determine which users have been provisioned successfully or unsuccessfully.
- Check the progress bar to see the status of the provisioning cycle and how close it is to completion.
- If the provisioning configuration seems to be in an unhealthy state, the application will go into quarantine. To learn more about quarantine states, see Application provisioning in quarantine status.
Troubleshooting tips
When you assign a user to the Clarizen One gallery app, select only the User role. The following roles are invalid:
- Administrator (admin)
- Email Reporting user
- External user
- Financial user
- Social user
- Superuser
- Time & Expense user
Additional resources
- Managing user account provisioning for enterprise apps
- What is application access and single sign-on with Microsoft Entra ID?
Next steps
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