Portal Authentication, Part 1: Facebook Authentication

This is the first in a series of blogs demonstrating the different authentication methods that can be used with your Portal. 

Introduction

Users to your Portal will likely accounts created on many different platforms and in this series we will go over the authentication options you have available with Portals and the different methods to configure them.  In this part of the series we will focus on configuring Facebook authentication with a v8.x Portal. 

1.  Create a developer account on Facebook:  https://developers.facebook.com/

2.  Select My Apps then Add New App.  You will be prompted to name the app and create the App IID.

3.  Once created select Settings from the menu on the left then +Add Platform followed by Website.

4.  Enter your portal URL in the Site URL field and make note of your App ID and App Secret.  These will be used when entering your Portal site settings in Dynamics 365. 

5.  You will now need to make the app public for it to work with your portal.  This step can also be the final step as if the steps below are completed users will not be able to use there credentials until the app is made public. 

6.  Sign in to your Dynamics 365 organization that has your Portal solutions installed.  Navigate to Portals -> Site Settings.  Enter your AppId and AppSecret in the fields below

7.  Once the changes in Dynamics 365 are synced with your Portal users will see the option to sign in with Facebook