Contentful Integration Guide

Creating a channel

Integrating PingFederate with Contentful requires a specific attribute mapping configuration.

About this task

Learn more about creating a channel in Managing channels in the PingFederate documentation

Steps

  1. On the Configure Channels > Target tab, click Create.

  2. On the Channel > Channel Info tab, in the Channel Name field, enter a name for the channel. Click Next.

  3. On the Source tab, from the Active Data Store list, select the data store that you created in Enabling provisioning and single sign-on in PingFederate. Click Next.

  4. On the Source Settings and Source Location tabs, complete the configuration based on your environment.

    Learn more in Modifying source settings and Specifying a source location in the PingFederate documentation.

  5. On the Attribute Mapping tab, configure the attributes as follows. You can use the following LDAP mappings, or adapt them for your datastore type. Click Next.

    Learn more about user attributes in the Users section of SCIM API endpoints in the Contentful documentation.

    Contentful attribute Datastore attribute

    userName

    mail

    email

    mail

    lastName

    sn

    firstName

    givenName

  6. On the Activation and Summary tab, for the Channel Status, select Active. Click Done.

  7. On the Manage Channels tab, click Done.