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Integrate BizX to LMS – Quick Steps of Implementation
In Integrated SF LMS Implementations the first step is to set up the Integration of SuccessFactors BizX to SuccessFactors LMS. This Article focuses on How to integrate your SuccessFactors BIZX Environment to SuccessFactors Learning Management system. To Integrate SF LMS with SF BizX suite you need to perform the following steps –
- Logon to Native LMS instance as an administrator.
- In Learning Administration go to System admin–>Configuration–>System Configuration –> BizX Configuration –> Set the following property to true to enable the BizX Learning integration
successFactorsLearningEnabled=true
- Change the BizX Server URL Example as follows-
baseURL=https://hcm4preview.sapsf.com
- Set the value for the BizX company ID
successFactorsCompanyID= Demo. ( Replace Demo with BizX Company ID)
- Set the IDP URL with company Id
metadataProviders.IDP1.type=SuccessFactorsHTTPMetadataProvider
metadataProviders.IDP1.value=metadataProviders[IDP1].value=https://hcm4preview.sapsf.com/idp/samlmetadata?company=Demo <—Provide the company id here
- Now Logon to provisioning go to company ID of the instance you want to integrate to the LMS
- Go to–> Service Provider Settings –> Authorized SP Assertion Consumer Service Settings
- Choose Add another Service Provide ACS. Enter the values as follows –
Login URL – <LMS URL>/saml/SSO
Example — https://Demo.plateau.com/saml/SSO
Logout Url: <LMS URL>/saml/SingleLogout
Example – https://Demo.plateau.com/saml/SingleLogout
- Now Go to Company settings –>Company settings
- Select the checkbox Enable SuccessFactors Learning Integration.
- Populate the field SuccessFactors Learning Integration URL with the LMS hostname
Example: https://Demo.plateau.com
- Populate the field SuccessFactors Learning Integration API URL with the LMS host name.
Example: https://Demo.plateau.com
- Save.
- Check if the following services are enabled:
SF Web Service
DocSearch Web Service
User Web Service
The two SFAPI features
- Logon to BizX as an administrator
- Go to Admin center –> Manage permission roles
- Under User Permissions, select Learning and the Learning Access Permission.
- Under Administrator Permissions, select Manage Learning and select the Learning Access Permission.
- Choose Done. Save
- Go to Native LMS Instance and logon as an admin. Create admin with default learning admin role. Please remember to use the same user id as Biz X.
- Now Logon to BizX –> Manage permission group –> create a permission group with learning administrator user & assign Learning administrator group to the above role.
- You are all set. Now navigate to learning & learning administration.
I appreciate your effort Vidushi..Being a LMS Consultant, I always have to check my implementation guide /KBA to start with.
Now, in my cutover activity list, I can paste this blog URL as a reference point.
Cheers,
Niladri
Yes Definitely. Thank you !
Vidushi
Appreciate your sharing.
May I ask a question? when I access LMS from BizX, it redirect to the logon page and I need fill in user name and password manually. Do you have implementation guide for SSO from BizX to LMS?
Thank you in advance.
William
Hi William,
You should check Whether User Id in BizX & LMS are same. If not it won’t work.
Thanks & Regards
Vidushi
SAP has stated the intention of the UUID (unique identifier from EC personalInfo) 2391798 - UUID - Universal Unique Identifier - FAQ (sap.com) is to integrate EC with Talent Modules, LMS being one of them.
However, if I use the method (Integration Center – A viable and flexible alternative for LMS Connectors ! | SAP Blogs) to extract additional fields to a user output file that the LMS connector consumes, and update UUID to map to STUD_ID (to only have one user in cases of Rehire with New Employment), then the SSO between BizX and LMS will not work, correct?
Any way to change that behaviour?
HI Vidushi,
Congrats for this tutorial.
I followed it and tried to apply that to my demo instance.
Accessing the Learning admin from Bizx works. But when trying to access the "My Learning" dashboard for any user, I get the following error:
Server: 116ps8bcf55t
Request: /sf/idp/SAML2/SSO/Redirect/company/SFPART046483
Error ID: 86fdc768-704b-41f3-9c4d-34ce73853d99
Fingerprint: 62d0857a2a3000c89bd1a460feead53e0726f100
Click this link to find any knowledge base article related to this error.
Timestamp: 2020-04-07T18:04:07.686-0400
Do you have any ideas of what's wrong?
Thank you
Toan
Great tutorial.
It just needs to be updated. After the 1H 2022 release, the Learning Integration fields in Provisioning are read only or have automatically been set.
I suggest taking a look on the KB Article 3209088 - Integrating BizX and LMS Post 1H 2022 Release, which explains how to update the read only fields in Provisioning, for LMS instances created prior to May 20th, 2022 and are not integrated.