Several users are seeking to implement Single Sign-On (SSO) from Thinkific to Discourse. Keith_Huang initiated the discussion, looking for guidance on configuring SSO. ethandrower shared that Thinkific’s documentation is for the reverse process and later found a solution using a middleman server. pfaffman shared a potential solution on GitHub, but it has some limitations.
ethandrower explained their solution, which involves setting up a middleman server to start the SSO process. This approach requires more work but allows Thinkific to be the source of truth. ethandrower started a blog post on this topic but hasn’t finished it yet.
Other users, such as Chas, jhuynh, are still seeking a solution. pfaffman offered to help implement a better solution for a fee.
any luck setting SSO from thinkific to discourse?
We are using thinkific for online courses and would love to have users create account/log in on thinkific site and automatically signed on to discourse for the community feature.
Do I need to configure anything on thinkific site or the config on discourse site will do the trick?
I read the official SSO implementation post but am still not sure what is required for the SSO URL (discuss.example.com/discuss/sso)
any help will be greatly appreciated. thank you all this is by far the best option i found.
I am looking for an implementation as well, it seems thinkific’s documentation is for the ‘reverse’ of what we’re doing (ie we want thinkific as the source of auth truth, and they assume you have another source).
Hey @ethandrower. I’m having trouble because my solution logs in to thinkific only when the user logs in to Discourse. Since thinkific logs out when the browser closers, users have to log out and back in to Discourse to get logged in to thinkific. Did you solve that?
@pfaffman the way i did it, the user logs in to thinkific only (there is no discourse sign up/sign up process) You eliminate that by setting the SSO setting to a middleman server.
So it looks like User Clicks Login (on discourse) → Your server to start sso process → redirect to thinkific page to login.
There is a lot more work that goes into doing it this way, but it’s the only solution i could figure that would allow SSO from thinkific (where thinkific is the source of truth).
I started a blog post on this, and will try and finish it today, maybe it will be helpful for you.
@ethandrower Do you have any update on this? I’m also trying to set up SSO from Thinkific to Discourse and any solution you can provide would be much appreciated!
I wrote the plugin linked above; it works with some caveats (mostly that thinkific logins time out and the only way to re-login is to log out and in of Discourse). I think I know now how to write it a better way (add a route for Thinkific to hit which will initiate the login). If you’ve got a budget please contact me.
