To Register an MYOB Advanced Instance with Google
Note: The information in this topic is obsolete. To configure single sign-on with Google, use
the OpenID Providers (SM303020) form, as described in Integrating MYOB Advanced with Open ID Identity Providers.
For your users
to be able to sign in with their Google accounts, you first have to register your MYOB Advanced instance with Google and obtain OAuth 2.0 credentials. This is a necessary step in
configuring single sign-on (SSO) for your MYOB Advanced instance. For more information about registering applications in Google, see Google Developers Console Help.Before You Begin
You should have a Google account that you will use to register your MYOB Advanced instance.
Attention: This
topic
describes the configuration of third-party software. Please note the
following:
- The procedure below is designed for the most common usage scenarios. If you are implementing a more complicated scenario and you encounter difficulties, contact MYOB Advanced technical support.
- The vendor of the third-party software may change the user interface and settings. Therefore, the screen elements and setting names you see may differ from the ones described in the procedure.
- The procedure will be updated each time information is made available about new common scenarios and changes in the user interface and settings.
To Register an MYOB Advanced Instance with Google
- Sign in to the Google Developers Console.
- Optional: If you have not created any projects yet and you see the Projects page of the Google Developers Console, as shown in the screenshot below, click Create project and type the project name. Then click your project name to open the API Manager page.
- Optional: If you created a project previously and you see the API
Manager page, go to step 4 if you want to use the previously created
project.
If you want to create a new project, select Projects page. (If needed, see the Step 2 for information on how to create a project.)
in the top right corner of the page to open the - On the API Manager page, configure the settings of the consent
screen as follows:
- In the sidebar on the left, click Credentials and select the OAuth consent screen tab.
- Enter at least the following settings, as shown in the screenshot below:
- Email address
- Product name shown to users
- Click Save.
- Add credentials for the project as follows:
- In the sidebar on the left, click Credentials, select the Credentials tab and then navigate to , as shown in the screenshot below.
- On the Create Client ID page, shown in the screenshot below,
enter the information as follows, and then click Create:
- Application type: Select Web application.
- Name: Type your application name.
- : Type the root domain of your application site—for example, https://app.site.net.
- Attention: The box is case-sensitive.
: Type the redirect URL of your instance (which is the full URL of
your instance with /frames/authdock.ashx appended onto the end—for example,
https://app.site.net/instance_name/frames/authdock.ashx).
- Copy the client ID and the client secret for later retrieval (see the screenshot below). You have to register these credentials in your MYOB Advanced instance.
- Enable the Google+ API. Do the following:
- In the sidebar on the left, click Overview.
- On the Google APIs tab, navigate to .
- On the Google+ API page, click Enable.