Create User

Create a new user in Okta. This action commonly follows an event like User is Added to Application Membership.

See Create User for more information on creating users in Okta.

Scopes

See Action cards for the list of required OAuth scopes for this card.

Options

Field	Definition	Type	Required
Option	Select option for the new user profile: without Credentials with Recovery Question with Password with Password & Recovery Questions with Authentication Provider in Group Note: When you use a Group ID that corresponds to the default Everyone group in your Okta org, a 501 Not Implemented error occurs. This is expected behavior. All users within an Okta org are automatically added to the default Everyone group.	Dropdown	TRUE

Input

Input fields vary by option but will always include the mandatory Okta profile attributes: Username, First Name, Last Name, and Primary Email. Required fields are indicated by a red asterisk.

Field	Definition	Type	Required
Profile
Username	Username of the Okta user, in email address format.	Text	TRUE
First Name	First name of the Okta user.	Text	TRUE
Last Name	Last name of the Okta user.	Text	TRUE
Primary email	Primary email address of the Okta user.	Text	TRUE
Credentials
Question	Password recovery question (must be specified if Answer is specified).	Text	FALSE
Answer	Answer to the password recovery question (must be specified if Question is specified).	Text	FALSE
Password	Password that meets minimum criteria (see documentation).	Text	FALSE
Provider Name	Name of the identity provider. Note that you must specify the directory instance name for ACTIVE_DIRECTORY LDAP providers	Text	FALSE
Provider Type	Identity provider type.	drop-down list	FALSE
Activate
Activate	User is activated upon creation (see documentation).	True/False	FALSE

Output

Field	Definition	Type
Raw Body	Raw payload returned from the Okta API.	Object
ID	ID of the user created in Okta.	Text
Status	Current status of the user (STAGED, PROVISIONED, ACTIVE, RECOVERY, LOCKED_OUT, PASSWORD_EXPIRED, SUSPENDED, or DEPROVISIONED).	Text
Created	Date and time when the object was created.	Date & Time
Activated	Time stamp when the transition to ACTIVE status completed.	True/False
Status Changed	Date when the user's status changed.	Date & Time
Last Login	Time stamp of the user's last login date.	Date & Time
Last Updated	Time stamp of the last user update.	Date & Time
Password Changed	Time stamp when the password was last changed.	Date & Time

Related topics

Okta connector

Workflow elements

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Okta API documentation