QuickBooks Federated App

Latest revision as of 03:36, 16 February 2012

QuickBooks Federated Applications

Federated Application Quick-Start

Creating the Application

• Log in to Workplace.Intuit.com
• Choose 'Create New' to create a new application
• Choose 'database style' for the type of application
• Name your application.
• If you're going to be using QuickBase functionality, choose 'Multi-table'
• Click 'Done'
• Choose 'Customize' > 'Application' from the menu
• Choose 'Advanced Settings'
• Click 'App uses Intuit Data Services'
• Check 'Application is Hosted Externally'
• Put the URL of your application (i.e. where you want to send the user after they've logged in) in the 'Application Destination URL' box
• Click 'Save Changes'
• Application Token Setup

• Go back to the 'Advanced Settings' page
• Click the 'Manage Application Tokens' link
• Click the 'Assign Application Token' button
• Choose 'Create a New Token'
• Click 'Submit'
• See also: https://idnforums.intuit.com/messageview.aspx?catid=69&threadid=14456&highlight_key=y&keyword1=token

SAML Gateway Setup

• Go back to the 'Advanced Settings' page
• Click the 'Get Federated Service Provider ID' link
• Go generate a public/private key pair (quickest way: openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:1024 -keyout your.domain.com.key -out your.domain.com.crt with a CN of your.domain.com, or see the link below)
• Paste the public key along with your SAML gateway URL into the form, and send it to Intuit, they will response via email
• See also: https://ipp.developer.intuit.com/ipp/federated/Get_Set_Up/Get_a_Certificate

The Code

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Tweaks

You probably want to pass your application the 'dbid' and 'realm' values. To do this, change your 'Application Destination URL' to append a query string like this: ”?dbid={dbid}&realm={realm}”