How to Translate an Okta User ID Into a Google User ID

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Okta Workflows Staff for Okta Workflows ・ Aug 23 ・ 1 min read

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How to translate an Okta user ID into a Google user ID?

Say you’re doing an off-boarding workflow, and want to trigger off-boarding based on the user account being deactivated in Okta. How do you translate an Okta user ID into a Google user ID (so you can deactivate the user in Google Workspace)?

The flow to do that has the following steps:

1. A user deactivated event is triggered ( Okta – User Deactivated card)
2. Read the user information in order to get the user’s primary email ( Okta – Read User )
3. Then use the Google Workspace – Search Users card to search for the user with a specified email address

Note that if Google Workspace – Search Users doesn’t find a user, the card will return null values. You can add logic to handle such case, for example:

Thanks to Darren Jackson, IT Applications Engineer at Invitae, and Dmitri Altum, IT Engineer at Ramp for the question and answer. Darren and Dmitri are members of the MacAdmins Slack #okta-workflows channel.

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