Select the option “Website”, and give a name to your new app - “eFront App” would be a good one.Ĥ) Now click on the “Create New Facebook App Id” button, enter a contact email, select a category for your app (“Education” or “Business” both sound apt), and click “Create App ID”.ĥ) Facebook will ask you to give the Site URL for your Facebook app - enter your eFront url here, and click next.
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Just follow this series of simple steps, and you’ll be good to go.ġ) The first step is to log in to the Facebook developers website, using your Facebook username and password (you might want to create a Facebook account just for your learning portal that is distinct from your personal account to keep them nicely separated - but that’s not by any means a requirement).Ģ) Within Facebook’s developers website, move your mouse to the top right corner of the page, click on the dropdown titled “My Apps”, and select “Add a new app” from the list that appears.ģ) A pop up window will, well, pop up, asking you what type of app you want to create and for which platform this new app will be. You don’t need to mess with programming APIs - or programming in general, and you certainly don’t need a rocket science degree, or an IT department to set it all up. So how would you go about it? Getting your Facebook onĬonfiguring eFront for Facebook authentication is quite easy to achieve. It’s also, along with Google, a very popular identity provider - allowing users to use their Facebook account for logging in to all kinds of third party sites and services.īy setting up eFront’s integration with Facebook you give users that already have a Facebook account (in other words, nearly everybody on the internet) a way to immediately log in to your learning portal without having to sign up for (and remember) yet another account. Whether one personally likes the service or not, there’s no arguing that Facebook is the world’s most popular social media platform. In this post we’ll have a look at yet another authentication option - integrating eFront with Facebook, so that you can have your users log in through their Facebook accounts. Then, there is eFront’s turn-key support for LDAP and Active Directory-based Single-Sign On, as well as its support for the industry standard Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), that allows administrators to integrate it with all kinds of identity providers. When it comes to authentication options, eFront really has you spoiled for choice.įirst, there’s eFront’s perfectly good built-in authentication mechanism, which is both really easy to use and quite flexible - with support for numerous security options, from expiring passwords to hostname restrictions.
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