SCIM, or System for Cross-domain Identity Management, is an open standard for the provisioning and deprovisioning of users and user groups to enterprise applications. It is able to significantly simplify the rollout of users and their permissions in Stages.

Stages V7.11 implements the SCIM standard version 2.0, which is supported by most modern identity providers like Okta Lifecycle Management or Microsoft Entra ID. They provide the capability to configure the connection to the Stages application.

Before connecting with Stages, an API token has to be created. This will then be used by the identity provider to authenticate against the Stages application.

Stages generates its API tokens on the basis of a unique secret that can only be set by the Stages administrator. This should be a random string value with at least 32 two characters. This value should be stored in the file conf/secret.properties like this:

“apitoken.secret = <value>”

In the conf/config.xml file the following configuration property needs to be declared:

“<property name=“restapi.apitoken.secret” value=“${apitoken.secret}”/>”

After that, a service restart is necessary.