Prolaborate and Mini Orange SAML Integration

Prerequisites

Your Prolaborate site should have a valid SSL Certificate.

If you don’t have an SSL Certificate, you can create a self-signed certificate yourself. Please get in touch with the Prolaborate team to know more about it.

Service Provider Configuration

To configure the Service Provider, click on Menu → SAML Sign On.

From the top of the page, click on Enable

Under Service Provider Configuration

Name	The name will be prefilled
Assertion Consumer URL	Assertion Consumer URL will be Prefilled
Certificate File	Choose the .pfx file of your SSL certificate
Certificate Password	Enter the Password of the .pfx file

Configuring Prolaborate in MiniOrange

To create a new SAML application, follow the below steps:

Log in to your miniOrange account and click on Add Application on the landing page.

Choose Create App under SAML/WS-FED

Search for Custom in the search bar and choose Custom SAML App

Under Basic Setting furnish the required details as follows

Title	Description
Application Name	Give a suitable name for the application
SP Entity Id or Issuer	Enter Name fields from Prolaborate Service Provider configuration
ACS URL	Enter Assertion Consumer URL (ACU) fields from Prolaborate Service Provider configuration

Under Attribute Mapping Click on Add Attribute to add the attributes such as firstname, lastname and email

If admin want to configure user group in Prolaborate. please use the respective value from the Attribute dropdown and copy the claim value and paste it in the Prolaborate attribute section.

In Advanced Settings choose Custom Attribute Value under Relay State and Enter the Name field from Prolaborate (under Service Provider configuration) and toggle the Override RelayState.

Click on Save upon furnishing the details.

Your application will be added successfully, now choose Select > Metadata

On the landing page click on Show Metadata Details

Now copy the IdP Entity ID or issue link and paste it in Prolaborate in Name under Identity Provider (IDP) Configuration

Click on Download Certificate

Upload the certificate in Prolaborate under Identity Provider (IDP) Configuration

If the file is not supported in Prolaborate click on Download Metadata

Open the file and copy the Certificate Value. Save the Certificate Value in notepad as .cer file

Upload the certificate in Prolaborate under Identity Provider (IDP) Configuration

Click on Back to My Apps

On the landing page click on Select > Show SSO Link

Copy the link on the landing page and paste it on Prolaborate Sign in URL under Identity Provider (IDP) Configuration

Now upload the .pfx file of your SSL certificate under Service Provider (SP) Configuration in Prolaborate and click on Save

Once the configuration is done, users will start to see a new button on the login page called Login with SSO.

When they click on Login with SSO. They will be redirected to the corresponding URL. They can then give their miniOrange credentials to login to Prolaborate.

If you’re experiencing challenges signing in using SSO, go at SAML Assertion Validation to debug the SAML configurations.