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Register Bold BI mobile application with Azure Active Directory

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  1. Go to the Azure Active Directory. In the directory, you should add two applications: one that acts as a Web API to authenticate the Bold BI Server, and another application that acts as a native client application to authenticate the Bold BI mobile app.

  2. Enter the respective directory. Click on App registrations in the left side menu, and then click on New registration to add a new application.
    Create new application

  3. Enter the name of the application and select the following options,

    • Accounts in any organizational directory (such as any Azure AD directory - Multitenant) are considered as supported account types.
    • Select Public client/native (mobile & desktop) under the Redirect URI (optional) section and enter the Redirect URI. Then, click Register.
      application-type.png

    The application will be added to the directory and you can view the details of the application in the App registrations.

  4. Select Branding in the left side menu, then enter the Home page URL and click Save.
    azurehomepageurl.png

  5. Select Authentication in the left side menu and save the Implicit grant and Supported account types as highlighted in the following screenshot.
    authentication.png

  6. Select Expose an API in the left side menu and save the Application ID URI.
    azureappid.png

  7. The Application ID URI must be in the format http://{directory domain name}/{application id}
    appiduri.png

NOTE: The Redirect URI and Home page URL should be the URL of the Bold BI application.

NOTE: The Azure user and groups can be imported into the Bold BI application. Refer to the following links to Import Azure Active Directory Users and Import Azure Active Directory Groups.

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