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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Okta Workflows How-To: Run a Flow Just Once or Manually

Okta Workflows is a no-code platform for automating identity processes. This blog post is based on a question asked during office hours or the #okta-workflows channel in MacAdmins Slack: How to run a flow just once or manually? Getting started To run a flow once use the Test button. Even though it says test, you can use it to run a flow one time…

Okta Workflows How-To: Calling an API When It’s Not Available From an Existing Card (Connection)

Okta Workflows is a no-code platform for automating identity processes. This blog post is based on a question asked during office hours or the #okta-workflows channel in MacAdmins Slack: How to call an API when it’s not available from an existing card (connection)? Getting started You will learn about three ways to call in API: Using an available…

New in Workflows: Search Flow History and Allow Delegated Admins to Run Flows

The Workflows team released two new features to help you build workflows and automatons. In this blog post, you will learn about two new capabilities: Search flow history Allow delegated admins to run flow Search flow history Search flow history allows to search flow history executions for text. When flow history has a large number of executions,…

Okta Workflows How-To: Create a Custom List Filter

Okta Workflows is a no-code platform for automating identity processes. This blog post is based on a question asked during office hours or the #okta-workflows channel in MacAdmins Slack: How to create a custom list filter? Getting started Let’s say you want to get a list of all user groups in your organization that start with a particular text…

Okta Workflows How-To: Translate an Okta User ID Into a Google User ID

Okta Workflows is a no-code platform for automating identity processes. This blog post is based on a question asked during office hours or the #okta-workflows channel in MacAdmins Slack: Translate an Okta user ID into a Google user ID? Getting started Say you’re doing an offboarding workflow, and want to trigger offboarding based on the user…

Okta Workflows How-To: Six Ways to Trigger a Flow

Okta Workflows is a no-code platform for automating identity processes. This blog post is based on a question asked during office hours or the #okta-workflows channel in MacAdmins Slack: How do you trigger a flow? Getting started There are six ways to trigger a flow. They are Schedule (flow runs periodically) Event (flow is called when a…

Okta Workflows How-To: Send an Email With an Attachment from Workflows

Okta Workflows is a no-code platform for automating identity processes. This blog post is based on a question asked during office hours or the #okta-workflows channel in MacAdmins Slack: How to send an email with an attachment? Getting started Workflows has three connectors to send emails: Gmail Office 365 Mail SendGrid Usually, the quickest way…

Okta Workflows How-To: Read a JSON Path With Dot-Notation

Okta Workflows is a no-code platform for automating identity processes. The Workflows team holds weekly office hours where they answer builder questions. This blog post is based on a question asked during office hours: How to read a JSON path with dot-notation in Workflows? Getting started As you build workflows automation, you will likely need…

Okta Workflows How-To: Create Flow Backup and Folder Backup and Save them to Google Drive

Okta Workflows is a no-code platform for automating identity processes. The Workflows team holds weekly office hours where they answer builder questions. This blog post is based on a question asked during office hours: How to create a flow or a folder backup and save it to Google Drive? Getting started Workflows has two cards to help with backing…

Okta Workflows How-To: How to Add Error Handling to a Flow

Okta Workflows is a no-code platform for automating identity processes. The Workflows team holds weekly office hours where they answer builder questions. This blog post is based on a question asked during office hours: How to add error handling to a flow and continue execution when an error occurs? Getting started When a card execution fails, the…