Max Katz

Staff Developer Advocate, Okta Workflows

Max Katz is a Staff Developer Advocate for Okta Workflows. Max loves the no-code automation space and creating educational content. Before Okta, Max led the North America Developer Advocacy team at IBM. Before IBM, Max led developer advocacy for a cloud-based mobile app platform, Appery, helping it grow from zero to over 400,000 developers. Max regularly writes on his http://maxkatz.net blog.

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Understanding Okta Workflows Events

Okta Workflows is an event-driven platform for automating identity processes. Workflows allows you to trigger a flow when an event occurs in Okta or 3rd party services. This blog post will teach you about triggering automation when an event occurs. Use built-in connector events from Okta and other services Use event hooks (webhooks) for Okta…

Five Okta Workflows Resources You Must Know About

The following are five Okta Workflows resources you must know about and use to help you build identity automation. 1. Documentation The Okta Workflows documentation has everything you need to learn to start building identity automation. Read the Connectors page to learn about the built-in API connectors. Read the Functions page to learn how to…

Build Workflows API Connectors with the Connector Builder

We have been writing educational content about the Okta Workflows Connector Builder. In this blog post, we are collecting and sharing all the content in one place. We list the content from beginner to advanced topics. Okta Workflows connectors. Getting started Start here to learn about Okta Workflows connectors and how to call APIs. Understanding…

Set Up API Connector Output Fields in the Okta Workflows Connector Builder

This blog post will teach you how to set up output fields on an API connector action in the Okta Workflows Connector Builder. Your card will look like this: The Weather – Current card. Create API connector tutorials. Set up API connector output fields. Resources. Create API connector tutorials We wrote two tutorials about building API connectors…

Okta Workflows Tutorial: Build a Connector for Spotify API (with OAuth 2.0)

This tutorial will teach you how to build a connector for Spotify API that uses OAuth for authentication using the Okta Workflows Connector Builder. Connector for Spotify API Build a connector for Spotify API Resources Connector for Spotify API You will build a connector for Spotify API because it uses OAuth for authentication. This tutorial will…

Okta Workflows Tutorial: Build a Connector for OpenWeather API

This tutorial will teach you how to build a connector for the OpenWeather API using the Okta Workflows Connector Builder. Connector for OpenWeather API What is the Connector Builder Build a connector for OpenWeather API Resources Connector for OpenWeather API You have several email notification flows you built in Okta Workflows. When you activate…

Okta Workflows Educational Resources – March 2024

This blog post shares all the Workflows educational content from March 2024. 🆕 Introduction to Okta Workflows If you are new to Okta Workflows, start with the following educational resources: Tutorials Notify When A User Is Suspended. Import Users from Google Sheets and Create Users in Okta. Send an Email Notification for a New Okta Event. Send a…

New in Okta Workflows: Duplicate Cards, New Connectors and Templates

The Okta Workflows team released several new capabilities to help you build identity automation. In this blog post: Duplicate a card New connectors New templates Okta Workflows resources Duplicate a card The duplicate card option creates an exact replica of an existing card in your flow. This is helpful when creating flows that require multiple…

Understanding Okta Workflows Connectors

This blog post will teach you about Okta Workflows connectors: Use a pre-built connector Use the pre-built API Connector Use a connector built with the Connector Builder Which connector option to use Okta Workflows Resources Use a pre-built connector When you start building with Okta Workflows, use one of the 60+ pre-built connectors. Pre-built…

Okta Workflows Tutorial: Send a Rich Message to Microsoft Teams for a New Okta Event Using Microsoft API

This tutorial is part of Okta Workflows with Microsoft series: Send an Email Notification for a New Okta Event Send a Notification to Microsoft Teams for a New Okta Event Send a Rich Message to Microsoft Teams for a New Okta Event Using Microsoft API This step-by-step tutorial will teach you how to send a rich message to Microsoft Teams. This…