Connect for Gmail Prerequisites and Required Settings
Before you begin to use the Vantagepoint Connect for Gmail add-in, it is important to review the following prerequisites and required settings.
Before You Begin
- To use Vantagepoint Connect in your Gmail account, you must have a Google Workspace account (formally G Suite). You cannot use a personal gmail.com email with Vantagepoint Connect.
- You must use Chrome with Vantagepoint Connect for Gmail.
- To use Connect, the Vantagepoint application must be exposed to the internet via a publicly facing URL. If your network or firewall is configured to allow only certain IP addresses to access Vantagepoint, you must add Connect IP addresses to the Allow list. For a list of IP addresses, see the Exposed IP Addresses or Troubleshoot Synchronization and Connect Add-in Issues for Gmail help topics.
- The security role for the individual who is responsible for configuring Connect must have access to Connect Administration. In , on the Overview tab, make sure that Connect is selected under .
- The individual who is responsible for configuring Connect (selecting the Connect option in ) must have an employee record associated with their user record in . The employee record must also have a valid email address.
- Each employee who will use Connect must have an employee record that includes an email address and that is associated with a user record in .
- If this is your first use of Vantagepoint Connect, an API Authorization with a Client ID (or consumer key) and Secret are automatically generated for Connect. You can confirm this on the API Authorization screen in . Note that there may be other API Authorizations on that screen that are unrelated to Vantagepoint Connect. Deleting or altering those could break other integrations.
- For on-premise deployments of Vantagepoint, using Local Active Directory for Integrated Login is supported and uses the Vantagepoint OAuth flow. Using Microsoft Entra ID is also supported.
Parent Topic: Connect Administration Basics for Gmail