Enabling potential members to authenticate and create accounts by integrating with Live Connect can simplify the member creation/registration experience. This guide identifies the steps to enable authentication through Live Connect.
Register a new application on Live
- Log into Microsoft Live.
- Navigate to https://account.live.com/developers/applications/index to set up a new Live application.
- Click Create application.
- The Microsoft account Developer Center appears.
- Name your project in the Application name field.
- Select the language you desire in the Language drop-down list.
- Click I accept. The Edit Application dialog box appears, where you can add your logo, terms of service URL, and privacy & cookies policy URL.
- Click API Settings. The API settings window appears.
- Select whether your app will be a mobile or desktop client app. (For a web app, the answer is no.)
- Enter your domain in the Target domain field.
- Select whether to restrict JSON web tokens to this application. The default is Yes.
- Enter the redirect domain (https://www.yoursite.com/linkauth/liveconnect).
- Click Save.
- Click App Settings. The client ID and client secret appear.
- Copy and save the App ID and App Secret values to another location.
- Click Save changes. Once registered, Live Connect will provide you with security details.
Configure the Live Connect plugin
- Navigate to Administration > Authentication > External Linked Authentication > Live Connect
- Copy your client ID into the Application ID field.
- Copy your client secret into the Application Secret field.
- Click Save.
Use the Live Connect sign-in
- Navigate to your Telligent Community site.
- On the Sign-in screen, click the Live Connect logo.