Need help in creating a deep link url to directly navigate to the Expense Report via IDP

[yvathumilli]

Hi All,

We are sending few alerts to Expense Report approvers when they have pending approvals.
Is there a way to generate a link which directly navigates the approval page for a specific report while still utilizing the SSO (through our IDP)  ??

I tried this https://developer.concur.com/api-guides/expense/deeplink-url.html but still it takes to the login screen and does not go through the IDP that is configured. 

Thanks in Advance.

Yaswanth Datta

[MichielS]

Hi Yaswanth,

I'm not sure if this is going to work but in the past I had that issue when linking from excel to a different application through SSO

I used a custom function to call the link through shell (in vba) that way it would go through the SSO and open the direct link. I hope this helps.

Public Sub OpenURL(ByVal sURL As String)

'https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/shell/shell-shellexecute
Dim oShell As Object

Set oShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
oShell.ShellExecute sURL, "", "", "open", 1
If Not oShell Is Nothing Then Set oShell = Nothing

End Sub

[kjudy]

I don't suppose you ever solved this issue, I ran into the same issue. I can use an Okta embed link that will log them in and drop them on the homepage, however when I attempt to use the deep-link specified in that doc it drops them on a generic login page, unless they're already logged in via Okta. I haven't found a way to combine the two either.