I have read the documentation which seems to lead me to believe that WD can act as a SAML ID provider. The use case is to be able to authenticate access for a valid Workday user into another website which uses SAML and does not use oAuth or social login etc.
Can you please let me know if this is possible and what documentation I would refer to please?
Yes, in a limited fashion. From a Workday doc:
You can create and edit SAML SSO links that use Workday as a SAML IdP to sign in to other systems from Workday. Depending on your link configuration, you can also pass contextual data to external systems. Workday supports both SAML 1.1 and SAML 2.0.
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