If you need group-based privilege management in your solution, you can consider using an identity provider that allows the brokerage to SIWA. There is no concept of groups, which can make account management a chore. While it may be obvious, it is worth repeating: Apple IDs are individual accounts and need to be added as such to your FileMaker solution. If you do not want that, you can still use Sign in with Apple by adding it as a custom OAuth provider following the white paper linked earlier in this blog post.

Pick App IDs and continue: Click the + icon to add a new identifierĬlick the Manage button in iCloud Setting to add the alias email CaveatsĪs mentioned earlier, you will need to set your FileMaker Server up with access to an SMTP account. While there, first make a note of your Team ID you will need that later. You will need an Apple Developer subscription for this. Configuring Sign in with Appleįirst, let’s set things up on the Apple side.

You will see how that works later in this blog post. The user will need to generate a randomized email address ahead of time that email address needs to be added as an active account in the FileMaker solution before the user can log into your solution. That part does not work with FileMaker solutions. Normally a user can make that choice at the moment they sign up for a service. The other benefit of using FileMaker Server is that you can let the users use Apple’s Hide My Email.

That means that if you are on an older version of FileMaker Server, you can also use Apple ID as a means to authenticate your users.ġ9.6 certainly makes it easier to configure FileMaker Server since you have a dedicated area in the Admin Console to input your settings: Administration area in the FileMaker Server Admin Console Steven Blackwell and I wrote a white paper a few year s ago that outlines how you can configure SIWA and configure your FileMaker Server to use it. Sign in with Apple (SIWA) is marketed as a new feature in FileMaker Server 19.6, but in reality, you have been able to use it for a while now since SIWA is just another OAuth-compliant identity provider.

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