How to set up authorisation
Plan the groups and roles required by your institution, set up the groups, and assign groups to roles.
Before you begin
You must have the permissions required to complete this task and understand its scope.
Permissions
The permissions required to set up authorisation are detailed in the setup process topics.
Scope
This task describes the process of setting up authorisation. However, the document Tribal Edge Core Branding & Pre-Requisite Template, which is available on Tribal Communities, must be completed before you can set up authorisation. The document defines environment authentication, and branding of your environment. The section Edge Login Configuration defines authentication, which must be completed before setting up groups.
To download the document, go to Tribal Communities, go to Community and then Knowledge base and then Tribal Edge platform knowledge base and then General Information and then Accessing Tribal Edge Tenants (Environments).
Set up authorisation
The table Authorisation setup process details the steps to set up authorisation with links to related topics.
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1. Plan the groups and roles |
Plan the groups and roles required by your institution. |
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2. Microsoft Entra ID only. Set up Tribal Platform as an application. |
Set up Tribal Platform as an application in Microsoft Entra ID and then send the client secret of the Tribal Platform application to Tribal. |
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3. Set up groups of users in the student management system or Microsoft Entra ID |
Set up the EdgeAdministrator group and the other groups required by your institution. |
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4. Optional. Create custom roles |
Create any custom roles in Tribal Platform required by your institution. |
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5. Assign the groups to roles |
Add the groups in Tribal Platform and then assign the groups to roles. |