Enable User and Group Lookup Through Microsoft Entra ID in Loome

Overview

You can enable user and group lookup when managing application access in Loome through Microsoft Entra ID. This will allow you to search for a user or group instead of typing out their entire email address. To do this, you will need to enable lookup in your organization and then authorize the access.

What is Lookup?

User Lookup

User Lookup will allow users of your organization to search for other users through Microsoft Entra ID in Loome when adding users to application roles and project roles.

Group Lookup

Group Lookup allows users of your organization to search for groups through Microsoft Entra ID when adding users to application roles and project roles in Loome.

How to Enable User and Group Lookup Using Microsoft Entra ID

First in the Organization Management app, go to the Features page.

If you have an existing organization, you will be asked to link your organization.

If you have created a new organization, you can skip ahead in this guide to authorize user or group lookup..

Link your Organization

On the Features page, click on ‘Link Organization’.

Please note that you should only link your organization if you are an internal member of the current directory or organization.

This will permanently link your organization to your domain. If you agree, click on Link.

Authorize User or Group Lookup

You can choose to authorize either user or group lookup, or both.

You can click on ‘Authorize All’ at the top-right to authorize both ‘User Lookup’ and ‘Group Lookup’ at the same time.

Or you can click on ‘Authorize’ beneath either ‘User Lookup’ or ‘Group Lookup’ to authorize your chosen type individually.

User Lookup:

Group Lookup:

Please note that some permissions may require your organization administrator’s consent, and this will be requested from this administrator when you click on ‘Authorize’.

Click ‘Authorize’ for these permissions.

This will redirect you to the approval page.

If you are an Administrator, you will be asked to accept the requested permissions.

If you are not an Administrator, you can request approval.

Provide the reason for your request and click Request Approval.

Your Administrator can then review and approve the request.

Your Administrator will see the consent request in Microsoft Entra ID under Enterprise application. Under ‘Activity’, select ‘Admin consent requests’.

An Administrator can select the pending request to view the URLs, review permissions and provide consent.

An Administrator can then accept the permissions.

After the permissions have been accepted by your Administrator, please log out and then log back in to update the status of your settings. Your approved lookup settings will display with the status of enabled.

After your chosen settings are enabled, you can search for either users or groups that are in your organization or directory in Loome. In each module, click on ‘Add User’ in Application roles and Project Member roles and type in your user or group to find a list of relevant options.