How Do I Log in using Okta?

For an website author, on any DX Platform website,  we would recommend they ONLY login to their site using the “Okta” tile on their login.iowa.gov dashboard.

Note: Another alternative to logging into your site is to add the /user at the end of your url website (e.x siteurl.gov/user)

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All authors who wish to make edits to any site on the DX Platform are required to have 

  1. an Active Directory account.
  2. an Okta account where they are able to access their Okta credentials. An author is assigned as one or more tiles of: Writer, Editor, Publisher, Agency Manager. 
  3. an assigned tile to the specific agency website they wish to edit.

If there is no Active Directory account, that must first be requested through a ServiceNow request assigned to DOM DoIT Hosting.

Next, Okta enablement must be assigned via DOM DoIT Iowa dot Gov. Any role at the Publisher level or above needs additional supervision and approval by the resident Agency Manager for that site.

Finally, the author may log in using their assigned Okta tile, to their specific site.

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Sample okta login screen

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Okta login: Access Okta screen

Once the live site has been turned over at launch, and is accessible at “yoursite.iowa.gov” all login will be handled and managed via Okta login. From that point forward, you will log in with your existing Okta account. 

Note: New Okta Users Agency managers submit (or co-sign) a ServiceNow ticket to request a net new author on their agency website. Authors can be one or more of: writer, editor, publisher, agency manager

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Okta login: Alternate path

Agencies all follow the same “/user” pathway, so for example Agency ABC will navigate to:
https://abc.iowa.gov/user and then use their assigned Okta login, in order to access the back-end.

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Okta login: Access the tile for your production website

As a logged-in Okta user going to your dashboard like so, you will be able to see the Tile, for your assigned agency website, like so.

The "Production" version of your website, is the live (live to the public) version.

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Sample okta login screen

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Okta login: Reminders

  • I am aware that my initial username and password should be changed, that I then store in a password management tool.
  • I am aware that I will be able to login and use test and production environments.
  • I am advised that Okta will be used, when my site is live, for all access to my agency's website.