Microsoft Entra SSO integration with Respondent

In this article, you'll learn how to integrate Respondent with Microsoft Entra ID. Respondent is a global marketplace that connects business professionals and consumers with researchers. Manage recruitment, scheduling, and the payment of your research participants on Respondent. When you integrate Respondent with Microsoft Entra ID, you can:

• Control in Microsoft Entra ID who has access to Respondent.
• Enable your users to be automatically signed-in to Respondent with their Microsoft Entra accounts.
• Manage your accounts in one central location.

You'll configure and test Microsoft Entra single sign-on for Respondent in a test environment. Respondent supports SP and IDP initiated single sign-on.

Prerequisites

To integrate Microsoft Entra ID with Respondent, you need:

• A Microsoft Entra user account. If you don't already have one, you can Create an account for free.
• One of the following roles: Global Administrator, Cloud Application Administrator, Application Administrator, or owner of the service principal.
• A Microsoft Entra subscription. If you don't have a subscription, you can get a free account.
• Respondent single sign-on (SSO) enabled subscription.

Add application and assign a test user

Before you begin the process of configuring single sign-on, you need to add the Respondent application from the Microsoft Entra gallery. You need a test user account to assign to the application and test the single sign-on configuration.

Add Respondent from the Microsoft Entra gallery

Add Respondent from the Microsoft Entra application gallery to configure single sign-on with Respondent. For more information on how to add application from the gallery, see the Quickstart: Add application from the gallery.

Create and assign Microsoft Entra test user

Follow the guidelines in the create and assign a user account article to create a test user account called B.Simon.

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, and assign roles. The wizard also provides a link to the single sign-on configuration pane. Learn more about Microsoft 365 wizards..

Configure Microsoft Entra SSO

Complete the following steps to enable Microsoft Entra single sign-on.

1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.

2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > Respondent > Single sign-on.

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

4. On the Set up single sign-on with SAML page, select the pencil icon for Basic SAML Configuration to edit the settings.

   

5. On the Basic SAML Configuration section, perform the following steps:

   a. In the Identifier textbox, type a URL using the following pattern: https://app.respondent.io/auth/saml/sp/<ID>

   b. In the Reply URL textbox, type a URL using the following pattern: https://app.respondent.io/auth/saml/sp/<ID>

6. If you wish to configure the application in SP initiated mode, then perform the following step:

   In the Sign on URL textbox, type the URL: https://app.respondent.io/auth/saml/login

   Note

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

7. Respondent 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.

   

8. In addition to above, Respondent 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 requirements.

   Name	Source Attribute
   userId	user.objectid
   email	user.mail
   firstName	user.givenname
   lastName	user.surname

9. On the Set-up single sign-on with SAML page, in the SAML Signing Certificate section, find Certificate (Base64) and select Download to download the certificate and save it on your computer.

   

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

    

Configure Respondent SSO

To configure single sign-on on Respondent side, you need to send the downloaded Certificate (Base64) and appropriate copied URLs from the application configuration to Respondent support team. They set this setting to have the SAML SSO connection set properly on both sides.

Create Respondent test user

In this section, you create a user called Britta Simon at Respondent. Work with Respondent support team to add the users in the Respondent platform. Users must be created and activated before you use single sign-on.

Test SSO

In this section, you test your Microsoft Entra single sign-on configuration with following options.

SP initiated:

• Click on Test this application, this will redirect to Respondent Sign on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

• Go to Respondent Sign on URL directly and initiate the login flow from there.

IDP initiated:

• Click on Test this application, and you should be automatically signed in to the Respondent for which you set up the SSO.

You can also use Microsoft My Apps to test the application in any mode. When you click the Respondent tile in the My Apps, if configured in SP mode you would be redirected to the application sign-on page for initiating the login flow and if configured in IDP mode, you should be automatically signed in to the Respondent for which you set up the SSO. For more information, see Microsoft Entra My Apps.

Additional resources

• What is single sign-on with Microsoft Entra ID?
• Plan a single sign-on deployment.

Next steps

Once you configure Respondent you can enforce session control, which protects exfiltration and infiltration of your organization’s sensitive data in real time. Session control extends from Conditional Access. Learn how to enforce session control with Microsoft Cloud App Security.