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Tutorial: Azure Active Directory single sign-on (SSO) integration with FiscalNote

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In this tutorial, you'll learn how to integrate FiscalNote with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). When you integrate FiscalNote with Azure AD, you can:

  • Control in Azure AD who has access to FiscalNote.
  • Enable your users to be automatically signed-in to FiscalNote with their Azure AD accounts.
  • Manage your accounts in one central location - the Azure portal.

To learn more about SaaS app integration with Azure AD, see What is application access and single sign-on with Azure Active Directory.

Prerequisites

To get started, you need the following items:

  • An Azure AD subscription. If you don't have a subscription, you can get a free account.
  • FiscalNote single sign-on (SSO) enabled subscription.

Scenario description

In this tutorial, you configure and test Azure AD SSO in a test environment.

  • FiscalNote supports SP initiated SSO

  • FiscalNote supports Just In Time user provisioning

To configure the integration of FiscalNote into Azure AD, you need to add FiscalNote from the gallery to your list of managed SaaS apps.

  1. Sign in to the Azure portal using either a work or school account, or a personal Microsoft account.
  2. On the left navigation pane, select the Azure Active Directory service.
  3. Navigate to Enterprise Applications and then select All Applications.
  4. To add new application, select New application.
  5. In the Add from the gallery section, type FiscalNote in the search box.
  6. Select FiscalNote from results panel and then add the app. Wait a few seconds while the app is added to your tenant.

Alternatively, you can also use the Enterprise App Configuration Wizard. In this wizard, you can add an application to your tenant, add users/groups to the app, assign roles, as well as walk through the SSO configuration as well. Learn more about Microsoft 365 wizards.

Configure and test Azure AD single sign-on for FiscalNote

Configure and test Azure AD SSO with FiscalNote using a test user called B.Simon. For SSO to work, you need to establish a link relationship between an Azure AD user and the related user in FiscalNote.

To configure and test Azure AD SSO with FiscalNote, complete the following building blocks:

  1. Configure Azure AD SSO - to enable your users to use this feature.
    1. Create an Azure AD test user - to test Azure AD single sign-on with B.Simon.
    2. Assign the Azure AD test user - to enable B.Simon to use Azure AD single sign-on.
  2. Configure FiscalNote SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
    1. Create FiscalNote test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in FiscalNote that is linked to the Azure AD representation of user.
  3. Test SSO - to verify whether the configuration works.

Configure Azure AD SSO

Follow these steps to enable Azure AD SSO in the Azure portal.

  1. In the Azure portal, on the FiscalNote application integration page, find the Manage section and select single sign-on.

  2. On the Select a single sign-on method page, select SAML.

  3. On the Set up single sign-on with SAML page, click the edit/pen icon for Basic SAML Configuration to edit the settings.

    Edit Basic SAML Configuration

  4. On the Basic SAML Configuration section, enter the values for the following fields:

    a. In the Sign on URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://<InstanceName>.fiscalnote.com/login?client=<ClientID>&redirect_uri=https://app.fiscalnote.com/saml-login.html&audience=https://api.fiscalnote.com/&connection=<CONNECTION_NAME>&response_type=id_token%20token

    b. In the Identifier (Entity ID) text box, type a URL using the following pattern: urn:auth0:fiscalnote:<CONNECTIONNAME>

    Note

    These values are not real. Update these values with the actual Sign on URL and Identifier. Contact FiscalNote Client support team to get these values. You can also refer to the patterns shown in the Basic SAML Configuration section in the Azure portal.

  5. FiscalNote application expects the SAML assertions in a specific format, which requires you to add custom attribute mappings to your SAML token attributes configuration. The following screenshot shows the list of default attributes.

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  6. In addition to above, FiscalNote application expects few more attributes to be passed back in SAML response which are shown below. These attributes are also pre populated but you can review them as per your requirement.

    Name Source Attribute
    familyName user.surname
    email user.mail

  7. On the Set up single sign-on with SAML page, in the SAML Signing Certificate section, find Certificate (Raw) and select Download to download the certificate and save it on your computer.

    The Certificate download link

  8. On the Set up FiscalNote section, copy the appropriate URL(s) based on your requirement.

    Copy configuration URLs

Create an Azure AD test user

In this section, you'll create a test user in the Azure portal called B.Simon.

  1. From the left pane in the Azure portal, select Azure Active Directory, select Users, and then select All users.
  2. Select New user at the top of the screen.
  3. In the User properties, follow these steps:
    1. In the Name field, enter B.Simon.
    2. In the User name field, enter the username@companydomain.extension. For example, B.Simon@contoso.com.
    3. Select the Show password check box, and then write down the value that's displayed in the Password box.
    4. Click Create.

Assign the Azure AD test user

In this section, you'll enable B.Simon to use Azure single sign-on by granting access to FiscalNote.

  1. In the Azure portal, select Enterprise Applications, and then select All applications.

  2. In the applications list, select FiscalNote.

  3. In the app's overview page, find the Manage section and select Users and groups.

    The "Users and groups" link

  4. Select Add user, then select Users and groups in the Add Assignment dialog.

    The Add User link

  5. In the Users and groups dialog, select B.Simon from the Users list, then click the Select button at the bottom of the screen.

  6. If you're expecting any role value in the SAML assertion, in the Select Role dialog, select the appropriate role for the user from the list and then click the Select button at the bottom of the screen.

  7. In the Add Assignment dialog, click the Assign button.

Configure FiscalNote SSO

To configure single sign-on on FiscalNote side, you need to send the downloaded Certificate (Raw) and appropriate copied URLs from Azure portal to FiscalNote support team. They set this setting to have the SAML SSO connection set properly on both sides.

Create FiscalNote test user

In this section, a user called B.Simon is created in FiscalNote. FiscalNote supports just-in-time user provisioning, which is enabled by default. There is no action item for you in this section. If a user doesn't already exist in FiscalNote, a new one is created after authentication.

Note

If you need to create a user manually, contact FiscalNote support team.

Test SSO

In this section, you test your Azure AD single sign-on configuration using the Access Panel.

When you click the FiscalNote tile in the Access Panel, you should be automatically signed in to the FiscalNote for which you set up SSO. For more information about the Access Panel, see Introduction to the Access Panel.

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