Max Katz

Workflows Builder Advocacy Lead

Max Katz is a Workflows Builder Advocacy Lead at Okta. Prior to Okta, Max led the North America West Developer Advocacy team at IBM. His team provided developer education via meetups, workshops, conferences, online events, and content, with the aim to help developers do their jobs faster and easier. Before IBM, Max led developer advocacy for a cloud-based mobile app platform, helping it grow from zero to over 400,000 developers. Max is the author of two editions of Practical RichFaces (Apress 2008, 2011) and was named an MVB (Most Valuable Blogger) on DZone. Max is a frequent speaker at developer events and conferences and publishes regularly on his http://maxkatz.net blog.

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New in Workflows: Low-Latency Flows Can Now Run Up to 10 Times Faster

The Workflows team released a new feature to help you build workflows and automatons that execute consistently fast. In this blog post, you will learn about new low-latency flows. What is a low-latency flow? The new Low-latency feature allows eligible flows to consistently run up to 10 times faster. Every workflow requires a certain time to…

Okta Workflows How-To: Get Multiple Values From an API Call JSON Response

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 get multiple values from an API call JSON response in Okta Workflows? Getting started This short video shows how to get multiple values from an API call…

Okta Workflows How-To: Search for Groups Using Custom Search Criteria in Okta Workflows

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 search for groups using custom search criteria? Getting started The Okta – Search Groups card allows to search for groups in your organization using…

Okta Workflows How-To: Save User MFA Information to a Workflows Table

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 save user MFA information to a table? Getting started You get a list of active users and want to save their MFA information to a table. Once the MFA…

Okta Workflows How-To: Filter a List with the List Filter 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 to filter a list with the List Filter card? Getting started The Okta – List Filter card allows to filter a list to include only those items that meet a…

Okta Workflows How-To: Write Output From the List Users Card to a CSV File

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 write output from the List Users card to a CSV file? Getting started You run a search with Okta – List Users with Filter card (or using any other search…

Okta Workflows How-To: Reduce a List to a Single Value, 3 Examples Using List-Reduce 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 to use the List-Reduce card in Workflows? Getting started The List-Reduce card takes a list of values and reduces the list to a single value. Here are a…

Okta Workflows How-To: Convert an Object to a List

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 convert an object to a list (or how to use the Object – Map to List card)? Getting started Object – Map to List card takes an object and converts it to a…

Okta Workflows How-To: Create an All Day Event in Google Calendar Using Okta Workflows

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 create an all-day event in Google Calendar? Getting started There are two ways to create an all-day event in Google Calendar: Using Google Calendar –…

Notify When an Okta User Is Activated, Profile Updated, and Deactivated, a 3-Part Joiner/Mover/Leaver Video Series

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 create a joiner/mover/leaver flow? Getting started Joiner, Mover and Leaver is a common scenario at many companies. At a high level: Joiner – when an…