# SailPoint Bird Connector Documentation > Bird Connector Documentation # Documentation # Connecting SailPoint and Bird To connect SailPoint to the source, perform the following tasks: ## Adding and Configuring the Source in SailPoint To connect to SailPoint, perform the following steps. Once the connection is made, you can configure it to meet your company's needs. 1. Go to **Admin \> Connections \> Sources**. 2. Select **Create New**. 3. Search for a source type and select **Actions**. 4. In the **Actions** dropdown, select the setup method: - **Express Setup** - Quickly create a read-only connection to your target system by providing minimal configurations and authentication. On completion, aggregation is automatically started. > **Note** > > Express Setup supports Credential Providers. For information on supported credential providers and configuration, refer to [Credential Providers](). For more information, contact your SailPoint Customer Service Manager. - **Standard Setup** - Provide detailed basic configuration to create the source. Once the source is created, continue with source setup. ### Express Setup 1. Review the directions and select **Start Express Setup**. 2. Review the pre-populated source name, source owner, and description. To update, select **Edit**. > **Note** > > Source name must be unique. 3. (Optional) If enabled for your organization, select the **Use a Credential Provider** checkbox to manage the source's authentication using a credential provider. > **Note** > > To add a Credential Provider in SailPoint, go to **Admin \> Connections \> Credential Providers**. For more information about credential providers, refer to [Credential Providers](). 4. Configure the authentication to allow SailPoint to connect to the source. For more information, refer to the **Connection Settings** page. 5. Select **Finish**. After a successful test connection, the system creates your source and prompts you to run an aggregation. - If you want to aggregate now, select **Aggregate**. - To see the latest account aggregation history, go to **Account Management \> Account Aggregation**. - To see the list of aggregated source accounts, go to **Account Management \> Accounts**. - If you want to aggregate later, select **Exit**. This returns you to the **Sources** page. Your new source is listed, but contains no accounts or aggregation history yet. ### Standard Setup Configure more detailed settings relative to Express Setup. 1. In the **Source Name** field, enter a unique and descriptive name for your source. Source names cannot exceed 128 characters. 2. In the **Description** field, provide additional details about the source to help distinguish it from similar sources. This field allows a maximum of 2,000 characters. 3. In the **Source Owner** field, begin typing the name of an owner. Matches appear after you type two or more letters. For more information, refer to [Assigning a Source Owner](). 4. (Optional) Select a governance group to grant its members [source]() or [role]() sub-admin level oversight of the source and its access. For more information, refer to [Creating and Managing Governance Groups](). 5. If this source represents a primary system containing your organization's personnel records, select the **Authoritative Source** checkbox. For more information, refer to [Creating Identity Profiles](). 6. Select **Continue**. The source is created, and you are navigated to the **Source Setup \> Base Configuration** page. Here, continue to configure your connected source. ## Base Configuration Provide the base configuration parameters. Information you entered in the Create New Source dialog is automatically entered into the fields in the Base Configuration page. You can edit this information if necessary. 1. Enter a descriptive **Source Name** for the connection. 2. Enter the **Source Description** that provides details necessary to distinguish it from similar connection sources. 3. In **Source Owner**, begin typing the name of the source owner. 4. (Optional) Select the appropriate **Governance Group for Source Management** from the dropdown list. For more information about governance groups, refer to [Associating Governance Groups with a Source](). 5. Select **Create Manual Work Items** to enable the source to support additional source management features such as creating accounts and access profile management. > **Important** > > Once you enable this feature, it can't be disabled. For more information on manual work items, refer to [Work Items](). For more information on SailPoint features, refer to [SailPoint Identity Services](). 6. Select **Save**. ## Connection Settings Configure a secured, direct connection to the source. 1. Enter the Bird **Base URL** (host URL). For example, `https://api.bird.com` 2. Enter the previously generated **API Token.** 3. Enter the **Workspace Id**. 4. Select **Save**. ## Review and Test Perform a test to confirm the connection to SailPoint. 1. Go to **Review and Test**. 2. Confirm that the entries in each field are correct. If you note any mistakes, return to the section and make corrections. 3. Select **Test Connection**. ## SailPoint Application Onboarding SailPoint application onboarding enables you to easily onboard new applications and create sources following the successful onboarding of a discovery source. To use this feature, continue to **Discovered Applications** in the SailPoint user interface. For more information, refer to [Application Onboarding]() in the SailPoint SaaS documentation. # Integrating SailPoint with Bird This document provides instructions to configure a new direct connection to Bird source. Bird is a unified workspace platform that provides centralized user, group, and access management across organizations and workspaces. Its API enables managing IAM entities such as users, roles, and groups, along with workspace-specific permissions, making it easy to integrate identity and access controls into external systems. For a reference to the terminology specific to SailPoint products, refer to [Source and Connector Definitions](). > [!NOTE] > > To view the latest features, enhancements, and fixes for all SaaS connectors, refer to the [SaaS Release Notes]() page. ## Supported Features The Bird connector supports the following: ### Account Management - Aggregate Workspace Users. ### Entitlement Management - Aggregate workspace Roles and Groups. > [!IMPORTANT] > > Quick Compliance connectors have the following manual aggregation limits within a 24-hour period: > > - **Organization Admins**: Limited to 3 manual account or entitlement aggregations per day per source. This limit is cumulative across all admins in the organization. > - **Regular Users**: Limited to 1 manual account or entitlement aggregation per day per source. > > These limits ensure that individual compliance statuses are kept up to date while maintaining continuous compliance monitoring. If you need to run additional aggregations beyond these limits, contact SailPoint Support. ## Prerequisites Before you configure the connector, ensure the following: - A Bird account with Admin-level access. - The **workspace access key** to access the workspace data. - The Workspace Id. Follow the steps to get Workspace Id 1. Go to the **Settings tab \> Organization settings \> Workspaces**. 2. Select the workspace to fetch the data. 3. Copy the Workspace Id from workspace info. > [!NOTE] > > **Resource Link** > > [Authorization]() ## Required Permissions - The access key requires Workspace IAM admin permission to perform the operations. # Schema Reference The application schema is used to configure the objects returned from a connector. > [!NOTE] > > - The **Account Schema** tab is used to define the attributes for each object type in the application being configured. The schema attributes can be defined as **Entitlement** or **Multi-Valued**. Refer to [Managing Source Account Schemas]() for more information. > - The schema attributes that are not present by [default](<#default-account-schema>) must be defined as strings if not specified. The Bird connector uses the following default correlation and object configurations. ## Default Account Schema Each source supports a variety of details, or attributes, about each user who has an account, such as their name, email address, manager name, and location. The set of account attributes each source stores and how they're organized is known as the account's *schema*. To best represent your data, you can configure sources to use an account schema matching the one you use in the external connector. Refer to [Managing Source Account Schemas]() for more information. ### Default Account ID SailPoint requires that certain attributes remain in your configuration. These attributes are referred to as *account IDs*. > [!CAUTION] > > Changing the attribute marked as the account ID after aggregating accounts can result in duplicate accounts being created. To avoid this, either reset the accounts on this source before editing the account ID attribute or edit the account ID attribute before aggregating accounts. > > To resolve issues caused by changing account IDs, reconfigure them to their default values. The following table lists the default account IDs for this connector: | Account ID | Schema Object Type | | --- | --- | | id | Account | ### Default Account Attributes The Bird connector supports the following default account schema attributes and customer configurable attributes. The attributes must be defined as strings if not specified. | Attribute Name | Description | | --- | --- | | id | Unique identifier for the user account. | | username | Username of the user account. | | status | Current status of the user account. | | name | Full name of the user. | | email | Email address of the user. | | bio | A brief personal or professional description of the user. | | roles | List of roles assigned to the user that define permissions and access levels within the Bird workspace. | | groups | List of groups the user belongs to within the workspace. | ## Default Entitlement Attributes Entitlement attributes define the entitlements, such as groups or roles, that can be assigned to the managed system's user accounts. Refer to [Managing Entitlements]() for more information. > [!CAUTION] > > Changing the attribute marked as the Entitlement ID after aggregating accounts or entitlements can result in duplicate entitlements being created, or access profiles and roles breaking. To avoid this, edit the entitlement schema before performing any aggregations. ### Default Group Attributes The Bird connector also supports groups. The following attributes must be configured on the managed system and in the SailPoint source schema to manage groups. | Attribute Name | Description | | --- | --- | | id | Unique identifier for the group (Entitlement ID). | | name | Name of the group. | | description | Optional text providing additional details about the group’s purpose. | | identifier | A unique, programmatic key used to reference the group. | | app | The application or module within Bird that the group is associated with. | | visibility | Defines whether the group is public or private within the workspace. | ### Default Role Attributes The Bird connector supports roles. The following attributes must be configured on the managed system and in the SailPoint source schema to manage roles. | Attribute Name | Description | | --- | --- | | name | Name of the role (Entitlement Name). | | slug | A unique, system-defined identifier for the role (Entitlement ID). | | description | Optional text explaining the purpose and responsibilities of the role. | | app | The specific Bird application or module the role is associated with. | | policies | List of policy identifiers bundled within the role that define the permissions granted to users assigned this role. |