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Account Password Overview
This article covers everything you need to know about passwords in Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla). Password requirements Password strength is determined by its length. The default minimum password length is 12. Numbers and special characters (!, @, etc.) are not required. Are these default requirements strong enough for my…
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Embedded SSO with jsConnect
The jsConnect addon has a special way of supporting SSO for embedded sites. For it to work, you'll need to pass a specially formatted SSO string to your embed. This article focuses on how to seamlessly log in users to Vanilla communities embedded in iFrames. For all other SSO using jsConnect, see this article . What you'll…
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Gigya Social Login
The Gigya Sign In addon allows your users to log in to your Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla) community with Gigya Social Login. 📝 NOTE: You'll need to configure your site in your Gigya dashboard, and then set up your login plugin on the Gigya plugins page before you can use the Gigya addon in Vanilla. Set up your site in…
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Implement the jsConnect V3 Protocol
Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla) offers several client libraries that you can use on your site if you're implementing jsConnect. If your site is programmed in a different language or you can't use one of Vanilla's libraries, this article explains how to implement the protocol. What you'll need To implement jsConnect, you'll…
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Introduction: What is SSO?
SSO, or Single Sign-On, is a user-authentication scheme that allows login credentials to be shared across multiple systems to reduce repeated log-in operations. A user can have one set of authentication credentials and personal data stored on one web property and these can be used to log in to other web properties. In its…
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jsConnect
Single sign-on (SSO) systems are complex. Setting up your own SAML or OAuth system requires an investment of time and effort, and generally is not feasible for small-to-medium business owners. If you have a website that stores your users’ identities and the only thing you need to integrate is a community, jsConnect is a…
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jsConnect V2 and Response Headers
This article is for jsConnect V2 only. We highly recommend upgrading to the more robust jsConnect V3, which solves these types of connectivity issues. To learn how, see Upgrading jsConnect To Version 3. In the past, web browsers and web servers were lax about small details in document headers. If your browser requested a…
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JsConnect v2 Embedded Comments
Embedding with seamless JsConnect Our technical overview explains how to set up JsConnect SSO for site-wide SSO. However, if you have Vanilla embedded in a page, you’ll notice that the SSO doesn’t automatically sign you in even if users are signed in to the containing page. In order to make the sign in seamless you need to…
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jsConnect V2 Quickstart (Deprecated)
jsConnect uses javascript to allow cross-domain single-sign-on with another site. We provide several client libraries to help you implement jsConnect on your site. If your site has been programmed in a language that doesn’t have a client library, then this documentation is for you. Functions You’ll Need jsConnect makes use…
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JsConnect V3 Quickstart
In this article, you'll learn how to configure Vanilla's JsConnect addon to perform Single Sign On (SSO) to your Vanilla community from your website. Vanilla's JsConnect is our in-house SSO addon that interfaces with your authentication application by making signed requests/responses sent as GET parameters in JSON Web…