How to automate identity processes with Workflows

11 online meetup recordings

About the Author

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 creating educational content. 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. 

20 January 2023 Time to read: ~

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The Workflows team hosted 11 online meetups in 2022. These are no-slides, hands-on events, each running about 30 minutes. If you missed the live sessions or want to learn how to build automations with Okta Workflows, check them out below.

Watch 2022 meetup recordings

How to Create a Report in Okta Workflows

You will learn:

  • Identify suspended users
  • Save users to a Google Sheets document
  • Notify via email when a user is suspended

How to Process a List of Records in Okta Workflows

You will learn:

  • How to use the List For-Each card to process a list
  • How to use the streaming option to process a list

What’s New in Workflows – Search Flow History & Allow Delegated Admins to Run Flows

You will learn:

  • How to search flow history
  • Allow delegated admins to run flows from within the Okta Admin Console

Build Your First No-Code Workflow Automation in 25 Minutes

You will learn:

  • User activated event: Notify on Slack, send an email, and save user information to a table
  • User deactivated event: Call a 3rd party API endpoint

Learn How to Process a List With a Helper Flow in 25 Minutes

You will learn:

  • How to use a List For-Each card to process a list
  • How to use the streaming option to process a list

Discover 10 Helpful (and Awesome) Okta Workflows Tips

You will learn:

  • 10 helpful (and awesome) Workflows tips to help you become a better automation builder
  • Bonus: we covered 5 more tips for a total of 15 Workflows tips!

Build Your First No-Code Workflow Automation in 25 Minutes

You will learn:

  • Building a flow with the basic building blocks (events, schedule, actions, functions, and connectors)
  • Creating logic with if-then, loops, and helper flows
  • Testing and running flow

3 Workflow Automation Examples – Handling Errors, Custom API Actions & Deleting Users

You will learn:

  • How to handle errors
  • How to call a custom API action
  • How to delete users

Build a Workflow Automation in 25 Minutes

You will learn:

  • How to build a real workflow during the 25-minute session

Introduction to Okta Workflows

You will learn:

  • Introduction to Workflows
  • What problems can Workflows solve by automating identify management without writing code
  • A step-by-step example of building your first Workflows flow

Online Meetup: Everything You Need to Get Started with No-Code Workflow Automations for Identity

You will learn:

  • What’s on the dashboard, an overview
  • How to use actions and functions
  • Four ways to start a flow
  • How to map data from one card to another
  • Using tables to store flow data
  • Testing a card, testing a flow
  • How to use connections
  • Using templates
  • Connecting to a custom API endpoint
  • Hands-on example building a flow

Get your Workflows questions answered

Do you have a question about Okta Workflows? Not sure how to build a flow? Join the weekly community office hours to get help. 

About the Author

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 creating educational content. 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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