Deep link to specific content during SSO login flow

[eapdso]

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Current behavior

When using SSO (SAML 2.0) to login to Kolibri, it automatically brings a user to the Kolibri home page.

Desired behavior

SSO should be able to have a URL parameter (or equivalent) that allows a user to be sent directly to specific piece of content within Kolibri.

Value add

This allows the originating system to direct people to the relevant content instead of forcing the user to search for the content themselves after login, which is complicated and slow process when there is a lot of content available for the user and they may have low tech literacy.

[rtibbles]

Hi @eapdso,

What are you using to achieve SAML 2.0 based SSO? The only SSO solution for Kolibri we have developed uses OIDC, so I assume that this is something that you have developed internally, or that someone else has created?

If it's just a matter of updating that to redirect/link to a specific resource, we do have a built in content redirect system, e.g.: /viewcontent?node_id=bee740d7a210545ab047b58fb61b9420 - would redirect to the specified node_id.

So, if the SAML 2.0 based SSO can accept a next parameter or similar, it could point to this. Without more details on the SAML 2.0 implementation though, I can't offer precise next steps.

[eapdso]

Thanks, @rtibbles ! I was mistaken and we are using OIDC actually. I've forwarded this onto our product and engineering team and they will investigate. Thanks for the tip on node_id -- i think that's very promising.

[rtibbles]

OK, great - looking at the Django OIDC library that our plugin is using under the hood, you should be able to pass next GET parameter with the login request, in order to redirect the successfully logged in user to the correct URL: https://mozilla-django-oidc.readthedocs.io/en/1.2.4/settings.html#OIDC_REDIRECT_FIELD_NAME