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 is a multi-tenant application. Tenants allow you to segregate groups of users and roles. Users from one tenant cannot access users in any other tenant. Note: this does not apply to public forms/flow which do not require login access to a tenant.

The  In-house superuser admin can create as many tenants on your form server as needed. Once the superuser admin creates the tenant, the tenant admin user can then login to manage the tenant, configure LDAP, add users & roles, etc. See the Admin Home Page for differences between the superuser admin and tenant admin. 

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trial tenants in the cloud are initially configured with the frevvo Default security Manager. Once you have purchased your license, you can switch the Security Manager of your tenant and retain existing forms/flows, users, roles and submissions.

Tenants using the Default Security Manager can be migrated to:

  • Default Security Manager → LDAP
  • Default Security Manager → SAML  
  • Default Security Manager →  Azure SAMLLDAP → SAML

Tenants using the LDAP Security Manager can migrate to:

  • LDAP → Azure SAML
  • SAML LDAP → Azure SAML

If you want to switch the security manager of your tenant, cloud customers should contact sales@frevvo.com to initiate the procedure.

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The superuser for in-house customers can add new tenants to your  server using the Manage Tenants page.

  • Click Click  to to add a new tenant.
  • Click Click  to display the Manage Tenant page. You use the links on this page to edit the tenant information and manage the tenant's roles, users, form and control categories, and production forms.
  • Click Click  to edit the tenant information. This link displays the same page as the Edit Tenant link on the Manage Tenant page.
  • Click to make a copy of the tenant.
  • Click Click  to remove the tenant from the server.

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  • Login as the superuser admin. Enter admin@d as the userID and admin as the password (if you did not change it). Click Manage Tenants



  • Click Image Removed the Image Added the plus icon to add a new tenant. 
  • Fill in the fields with the information for your new tenant.
  • Click the Submit button to save.

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  • Tenant ID - Enter the tenant Id in this field - The tenant id can contain characters, numbers, dot(.), hyphen (-) and the underscore. It cannot start with a number. A common practice is to use your domain name for the tenant id.

  • Tenant Name - Enter the name of the new tenant.
  • Tenant Description - Enter a description for the new tenant.
  • Max Concurrent Users - Leave this field blank if you do not want to set a maximum number of concurrent users. Concurrent Users are users that are logged into  simultaneously.
  • Admin User Id - This is the tenant admin id. It can contain characters, numbers and the underscore. It cannot start with a number. The maximum length is 16 characters.
  • Admin User Password - This is the tenant admin password. Notice the text will appear as bullets as you type.
  • Reenter the Admin User Password - Reenter  the tenant admin password.  will display an error message, "Invalid Value" if what you type in this field does not match the contents of the Admin User Password field.

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  1. Select the timezone for your tenant from the dropdownthe dropdown. Escalation emails will display dates/times based on the selected timezone.
  2. Specify the working hours by entering a value in the Day Starts At and Day Ends At fields. The start and end hours are based on a 24 hr clock. Valid values are 0 - 23. 
  3. Check the weekend days for your tenant.
  4. List the company holidays for the current year. You can specify holidays for future years as well.

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It is no longer necessary to use a rule to Calculate a Date based on a five day work week.

Configure HTTP Authorization Credentials

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The specification of http credentials for in-house customers was previously supported globally and configured in the httpclient-auth.properties file. This method is no longer used.  In-house customers using this file for HTTP authentication should read the Migration Considerations before upgrading to Live Forms v6.3.

To configure http security credentials at the tenant level, follow these steps:

  1. The Http Auth Credentials section is at the bottom of the Edit/Add tenant screens and is initially collapsed. Click the the icon to expand it.
  2. Enter the scheme from the dropdown. The admin may enter multiple credentials by clicking the icon. Each should be for a unique scheme/host/port/realm. The supported options are:
    1. Basic - a common HTTP Authentication protocol that  assumes that client credentials consist of a username and a password where the latter is a secret known only to you and the server

    2. NTLM - a Windows network authentication protocol that allows a client to prove its identity without sending a password to the server.

  3. Scheme, host, user name and password are required.

  4. Port is optional and may be left blank. Either blank or -1 equates to any port and the system will alter blank to be -1.

  5. All fields are specified in plain text and not encoded in any way.

  6. Domain is only generally used for NTLM.

 

 

Configuring the LDAP/Active Directory Security Manager

Creating/editing the LDAP tenant is performed by the superuser (on-premise) or the tenant admin (cloud). Refer to this documentation for configuration details and here for some troubleshooting tips.

Configuring the LDAP Container Security Manager

There are some configuration items that must be performed before creating a tenant using the LDAPContainer Security Manager. Once the prerequisites have been completed, adding a tenant that uses the LDAP Container Security Manager is exactly the same as configuring a tenant using the LDAP/Active Directory Security Manager. Please follow the steps listed here.

Refer to the Configuring the LDAP Container Security Manager topic for the instructions.

Configuring the SAML Security Manager

Creating/editing the SAML tenant is performed by the superuser (on-premise) or the tenant admin (cloud). Refer to the SAML Security Manager topic for the details.

Configuring the Azure SAML Security Manager

Creating/editing the SAML tenant is performed by the superuser (on-premise) or the tenant admin (cloud). Refer to Configuring the Azure SAML Security Manager for the details.

Configuring the Database Container security Manager

The Database Container Security Manager should be selected when authentication is the container's responsibility and you want to use the   database interface to fetch users/roles for design time functionality from an external database.  Click here for the configuration details.

Edit Tenant

A tenant admin or a superuser admin can use the Tenant page to configure or edit information about a tenant. 

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  • If logged in as a tenant admin click Edit Tenant.
  • If logged in as a superuser admin click Manage Tenants  and then click click  for the tenant you want to edit.

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  • Default Security Manager → LDAP
  • Default Security Manager → SAML
  • Default Security Manager →  Azure SAML
  • LDAP → SAML
  • LDAP → Azure SAMLSAML → Azure SAML

Click the the  button to see details about a field. Click Submit to save your changes. The message "Tenant updated successfully" will display.

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Warning

Be aware that changing the Security Manager of your tenant is a ONE-WAY operation. Once completed, you CANNOT change it back to the original security manager.

Edit LDAP Properties

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If you are editing a tenant using the LDAP/Active Directory Security Manager or the LDAP Container Security Manager configured LDAP properties will display. These properties  can be modified using this screen.

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Edit SAML Properties

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If you are editing a tenant using the SAML Secuirty Manager, configured metadata and attribute mappings will display. These values can be modified using this screen.

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Remember, if you check the Authentication Only checkbox, only the User Id field displays for mapping.

Edit Azure SAML Properties

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If you are editing a tenant using the Azure SAML

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Security Manager, configured metadata and attribute mappings will display. These values can be modified using this screen.

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Authentication Only is checked so only the field for User Id mapping is displayed.

Edit the Business Calendar

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The email address entered in this section is used as the from email address for email notifications and doc action emails for forms and workflows in the tenant.  If you want to setup the email address with a user friendly name, enter the text in the Display Name field. You can specify a different from email address for Document Action and Activity Document action emails by entering a valid email address in the from field in both wizards. The values in these fields overrides the address entered on the Edit Tenant screen.

Refer to the Email configuration or integration topics for more information.

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A user designing a form, viewing their task list, or using a form to enter values and submit has a certain number of minutes to complete the activity. This time limit is call the Session Timeout. By default the session will expire after 480 minutes of inactivity. When the session expires a designer user will have to re-login to  to continue designing forms and users filling forms will have to get new form instance and re-enter the values. The tenant admin can override the default session timeout here. See Session Timeout topic in the Installation & Configuration Guide for full details.

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The Max Concurrent Users field only appears if you are logged in as a superuser admin. This field enables you to restrict the number of users who can simultaneously login to a particular tenant. For example if you have purchased and installed a 20 user license key and want to set tenant A to use 5 and tenant B to use 15, setup that configuration here. See Concurrent Users for more information.

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Max Users is subject to your license.

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The Deployment State lets you toggle the default deployment state of your form between two states: PRODUCTION and DEVELOPMENT. When a form is in development state it contains a watermark. If you have a  unlimited user license key you may want all the forms created by the designer to automatically be deployed for production with no water mark. 

See also the deployment form property.

Anonymous Signup

Anonymous signup lets you publish a registration Url for your tenant so people can signup and create a user account in your tenant themselves. In the Edit Tenant form, check the anonymous signup property and then select the default roles you want them to have when they signup. You can click the "+" to add multiple roles. If you select the designer role, these new users will have permission to design forms and workflows.

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Tenants configured with an LDAP or SAML Security Manager do not display the Anonymous Signup checkbox as this feature is not applicable for an LDAP or SAML tenant.

 

Tenant Setup

To setup your tenant, first login to your new tenant as the tenant admin. The tenant admin can add users to the tenant. You need to add at least one designer user in order to begin creating forms.

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  1. Click the Manage Roles link.
  2. You will see several pre-created roles: frevvo.Designer, frevvo.Editor, frevvo.Publisher, frevvo.ReadOnly.
  3. Click the the  icon, fill in the form and submit it to create new roles e.g. Employee or Manager.
  4. Click the Back to Manage Tenant link.
  5. Next click the Manage Users link.
  6. For  In-house you will see a single user – the administrative user you defined when you created the tenant. Note that you will have to click the link to display All users. By default, only users beginning with the later A are displayed. For  Onlne you will see two users – the administrative user and the designer username you specified when you signed up for your trial SaaS account.
  7. To create a new user with permissions to create forms, click the  icon, fill in the form and select the role frevvo.designer. If you do not select this role then this new user will not be able to create forms but will only be able to use forms created by others.
  8. The new user will be created. Create as many users and assign them roles as needed.
  9. Logout of the tenant admin account and login as one of the newly created users with the frevvo.Designer role and start building forms and workflows.
  10. Note that you must login using either the syntax: userid@tenant for the user name. For example, if the newly created tenant was named example.com then all users in that tenant must login using the ID: user@example.com. If you prefer to enter the username and tenant name in their own login page input fields, the configuration parameter, frevvo.login.show.tenant, can be modified to display the tenant name input field.  

Related Topics

User Authentication