Custom registration and MFA: Redirecting user to okta-hosted MFA setup right after manually registering and creating a user

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I’m working on a proof of concept in which we’ve manually created / registered a user through our own custom form. Upon successfully creating an okta user with a password and recovery questions, we’re interested in redirecting the user to an okta-hosted MFA setup / enrollment. Is the only way to get to the MFA setup / enrollment through the sign-in process?, or is there a way to bring the users straight to the MFA enrollment process directly after our custom registration?

I apologize in advance for potentially missing things in documentation. I’ve been reading and absorbing as much as I can.

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@mwitmer Hi, you can working on the factors with Okta API. You can design the process with our APIs.
https://developer.okta.com/docs/reference/api/factors/#factor-lifecycle-operations
What documentation you were looking at?

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Thanks for the response on this:

The direction we ended up going was to opt in to using the sign-in widget within our own application because it gave us more options.

Since the sign-in widget gives us the control to potentially pass in a state token (if we choose to make a request for it), we learned how this could potentially bypass manually logging in. At the moment, we’re still going through a manual log-in step after the following steps:

  1. The user registers in our application,

  2. They click on the activation link in their email

  3. They provide a password and security question

After this, the flow we currently have will still have them manually log in and its nice that the widget handles MFA enrollment for us.