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GlobalForms 10.1 supports Active Directory Integration for Authentication.  To configure this, you will need the following information prior to getting started:

  • The Server Name of a Domain Controller or network address that resolves one or more domain controllers. 
  • Your Base Domain Name, is the root FQDN of your Domain.  For example; subdomain.root.local, it's base domain name is root.local.  
  • The Organization Units where users live that you'll be enabling to access GlobalForms.
  • A username and password of an account to authenticate against Active Directory.

Once you've gathered this information, it needs to be entered into X:\GlobalForms\config\default.js.  X:\GlobalForms represents the location you installed GlobalForms 10.

  1. Open your default.js file in a text editor such as Notepad or Notepad++. 
  2. Locate the LDAP Section, this by default is commented out. 
  3. Remove the the starting slashes "\\" to uncomment the LDAP Lines until it your configuration matches the one below.
"ldap": {
  "url":      "ldap://yourdomaincontroller",
  "baseDN":   "dc=domain,dc=local",
  //"ou": ["MyUsersOU","OtherOU"],
 "interval": 0,
  //"filter": "(objectclass=*)",
 "username": "somedomain\\someuser",
 "password": "somepassword"
},

The options you can set are:

  • URL: The location of your LDAP or Domain Controller, by default LDAP uses port 389 to connect.
  • BaseDN: The root FQDN of your server, ie: square9.local, would be entered as dc=square9,dc=local.
  • OU:  You can limit GlobalForms 10 to pull objects from OUs specified here.
  • Interval: How frequently users are synced from AD.
  • Filter: Filter to specific objects, if you leave this commented, all objects will be pulled.
  • Username:  This is a username used to authenticate to your domain, this username must have sufficent rights and access to read users/groups on your domain.
  • Password:  The password to connect to the aforementioned user.

Once this is configured, simply restart your "GlobalForms10" Service in the Services area in Windows.  

You will need to perform an initial sync of users to GlobalForms 10, this is done by clicking on the "Syncronize AD" button after logging into GlobalForms 10 as your administrator user.