Max Katz

Staff Developer Advocate, Okta Workflows

Max Katz is a Staff Developer Advocate for Okta Workflows. Max loves the no-code automation space and helping developers with content, videos, and online meetups. Before Okta, Max led the North America Developer Advocacy team at IBM. Before IBM, Max led developer advocacy for a cloud-based mobile app platform, Appery, helping it grow from zero to over 400,000 developers. Max regularly writes on his http://maxkatz.net blog.

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New in Okta Workflows: 30-day Trial, Cancel Flow, monday.com and SFTP Connectors, and New Templates

The Okta Workflows released several new capabilities to help you build identity automation. In this blog post: 30-day Trial Cancelling a flow New connectors New templates Workflows resources 30-day Trial Workflows is now included in the WIC (Workforce Identity Cloud) 30-day Free Trial. Workforce Identity Cloud sign-up page Learn more about the…

New in Workflows: Organize Your Flows in Folders and Subfolders

The Workflows team released a new capability to help you build and organize flows. This blog post will teach you about the new subfolders’ capability. Organizing flows into folders and subfolders As you create flows, helper flows, and tables, you can create folders and subfolders to keep automation organized. Create new subfolder With folders…

Okta Workflows How-To: Determine User Sign-In Location

Okta Workflows is a no-code platform for automating identity processes. This blog post is based on a question asked during office hours or the #okta-workflows channel in MacAdmins Slack: How to determine user sign-in location information? This how-to is based on WorkflowsTip #8, from Ashwin Ramnarayanan, Solutions Engineer at Okta. Determining…

Okta Workflows Tutorial: Notify When a User Is Suspended

Okta Workflows is a no-code platform for automating identity processes. Introduction This step-by-step tutorial will show you how to build a no-code workflow that sends a notification when a user is suspended in Okta. You will learn the following: How to build your first flow How to trigger a flow when a user is suspended How to send an email…

Okta Workflows How-To: Build a Custom Connector in Okta Workflows, a 7-Part Video Series

Okta Workflows is a no-code platform for automating identity processes. Getting started The Okta Workflows team created a 7-part educational video series on how to build a custom connector with the Workflows Connector Builder. Watch the Connector Builder video series: Introduction Overview Settings Authentication overview Basic authentication…

Okta Workflows How-To: Find the JSON Object Passed From a Streaming Action to a Helper Flow

Okta Workflows is a no-code platform for automating identity processes. This blog post is based on a question asked during office hours or the #okta-workflows channel in MacAdmins Slack: How to find the JSON object passed from a streaming action to a helper flow? Getting started Watch this video to learn how to find the JSON object passed from a…

Okta Workflows How-To: Set Up a Streaming Action Card for Search Results

Okta Workflows is a no-code platform for automating identity processes. This blog post is based on a question asked during office hours or the #okta-workflows channel in MacAdmins Slack: How to set up a streaming action card for search results? Getting started Watch this video to learn how to set up a streaming action card for search results in…

Okta Workflows How-To: Read a Custom User Profile Attribute

Okta Workflows is a no-code platform for automating identity processes. This blog post is based on a question asked during office hours or the #okta-workflows channel in MacAdmins Slack: How to read a custom user profile attribute? If you prefer a video, jump to the end of this blog post to watch a short video about this question and answer…

Okta Workflows How-To: Iterate Over a JSON Object (or How to Use the Object – For Each Card)

Okta Workflows is a no-code platform for automating identity processes. This blog post is based on a question asked during office hours or the #okta-workflows channel in MacAdmins Slack: How do you iterate over a JSON object to retrieve a path value? Thanks to Bishal Shrestha, an Okta Administrator at Pinterest, who asked this question in…

Learn About the Differences Between Three Workflows List Functions: For Each, Map, and Reduce

Okta Workflows is a no-code platform for automating identity processes. This blog post is based on a question asked during office hours or the #okta-workflows channel in MacAdmins Slack: What are the differences between three List functions: For Each, Map, and Reduce? Getting started The List function has three cards to iterate over a list: For…