# Adding Email Address in SAML Token

**URL:** <https://devforum.okta.com/t/adding-email-address-in-saml-token/7825>\
**Category:** SAML\
**Created:** [January 28, 2020, 10:14am UTC](https://devforum.okta.com/t/adding-email-address-in-saml-token/7825 "2020-01-28T10:14:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![mcuziac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@mcuziac](https://devforum.okta.com/u/mcuziac)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2020, 10:14am UTC](https://devforum.okta.com/t/adding-email-address-in-saml-token/7825/1 "2020-01-28T10:14:36Z")

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I’m trying to integrate okta with a 3rd party app that requires the following claims to be configured in the SAML 2.0 token:

- NameID Format - urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:nameid-format:persistent
- emailaddress - [http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/emailaddress](http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/emailaddress)

How would i add the email addresss claim? I can add it as a custom attribute, but the only formats that are available are Unspecified, Uri Reference or Basic.

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**Author:** ![dragos](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/oktadev/user_avatar/devforum.okta.com/dragos/32/1313_2.png) [@dragos](https://devforum.okta.com/u/dragos)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 4:48am UTC](https://devforum.okta.com/t/adding-email-address-in-saml-token/7825/2 "2020-01-29T04:48:05Z")

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Hi @mcuziac

Please check [SAML Assertion Inline Hook](https://developer.okta.com/docs/reference/saml-hook/#sample-listing-of-json-payload-of-response) feature to add the claim in the SAML response.

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**Author:** ![mcuziac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@mcuziac](https://devforum.okta.com/u/mcuziac)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 6:04pm UTC](https://devforum.okta.com/t/adding-email-address-in-saml-token/7825/3 "2020-01-29T18:04:04Z")

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Thanks @dragos,

From what I see in the documentation, it seems that the inline hooks might indeed do what I want. Unfortunately, I don’t think it’s reasonable to ask each of our clients to implement these.

Does anybody have a simpler idea?

Mihai,

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**Author:** ![andrea](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/oktadev/user_avatar/devforum.okta.com/andrea/32/2172_2.png) [@andrea](https://devforum.okta.com/u/andrea)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2024, 8:12pm UTC](https://devforum.okta.com/t/adding-email-address-in-saml-token/7825/4 "2024-01-23T20:12:23Z")

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