Sync User in External Application

Trigger an flow when an admin syncs users from an external application to Okta.

Options

Field Definition Type Required
Use App Instance ID? Choose from Yes or No. If Yes, you can select the application instance directly through the App Instance ID field. Dropdown FALSE
Application Choose the app to trigger an flow for when an admin syncs a user. Choose Enter Application ID to select an app by its ID.

The dropdown displays up to 1000 apps.

Dropdown FALSE
Application Instance Choose from a list of existing application instances, dependent on the application chosen in the previous step.

The dropdown displays up to 2000 app instances.

This event will only trigger for the selected application instance. If you don't see your application instance in the list use the Use App Instance ID? dropdown list and the App Instance ID field to be able to trigger the event for a specific application instance.

Dropdown FALSE
Application Instance ID A unique app instance ID. Choose Yes in Use App Instance ID? to interact with your application instance directly through its ID.

To find the application instance ID for an app:

  1. Go to Okta Admin ConsoleApplications.
  2. Click your app. The app page opens.
  3. Check the page URL. You can find the app ID using this URL pattern: https://yourcompany.okta.com/admin/app/yourappname/instance/YOURAPPINSTANCEID/

    For example, https://acme.okta.com/admin/app/office365/instance/0oahjhk34aUxGnWcZ0h7/. Here, 0oahjhk34aUxGnWcZ0h7 is the app instance ID.
String FALSE

Output

Field Definition Type
Date and Time Date and time the event was triggered in Okta API. String
Message Message details about the event. String
Event ID Event's unique identifier key. String
Event Type Type of event that was published. String
Event Time Timestamp when the notification was delivered to the service. String
Version

Versioning indicator.

String
Admin Okta admin who synced the user. Object
ID ID of the Okta admin who synced the user. String
Alternate ID Email address of the Okta admin. String
Display Name Display name of the Okta admin. String
Type Admin type. String
Okta User Okta user who was synced. Object
ID User's ID. String
Alternate ID User's email address. String
Display Name User's display name. String
Type Type of Okta user. String
Application User User's details for the target application. Object
ID User's ID in the target application. String
Alternate ID User's alternate ID in the target application (usually their email address). String
Display Name Display name of the user for the target application. String
Type Type of user in the target application. String
Application Target application. Object
ID ID of the target application. String
Alternate ID Alternate ID of the target application. String
Display Name Display name of the target application. String
Type Type of the target application. String
UUID Webhook event's universal unique identifier. String
Event Details Raw JSON payload returned from the Okta API for this particular event. Object
Headers Object representing the headers for the response; each key of the header will be parsed into a header string as "key: value" (Content-Type: text/plain). Object
Source Source of user-specific data. Object
Debug Context
Debug Data Information on the triggered event used for debugging; for example, returned data can include a URI, an SMS provider, or transaction ID. Object

While you can create additional user or group fields for an Okta event, the Okta API only returns values for four fields: ID, Alternate ID, Display Name, and Type.

No other fields are supported for users or groups, and data from such fields isn't returned by this event card.

Related topics

Okta connector

Workflow elements

Guidance for Okta connector

Okta API documentation