# Passing Active Directory credentials to other Perspective projects

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/passing-active-directory-credentials-to-other-perspective-projects/113180>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective\
**Created:** [January 9, 2026, 4:27pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/passing-active-directory-credentials-to-other-perspective-projects/113180 "2026-01-09T16:27:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![lrose](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/lrose/32/62724_2.png) [@lrose](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/lrose)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2026, 6:10pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/passing-active-directory-credentials-to-other-perspective-projects/113180/4 "2026-01-09T18:10:32Z")

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> [@parker.williams](#):
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> I want to get rid of the sign in screen that pops up every time you open a different project in the browser, and just log in once with AD credentials.

You can't, essentially you have two options:

1. Use SSO and then when you re-direct to projects it still goes through the authentication process but since you are using SSO, it signs in and then move to the project.
2. 

> [@How to open page of one project from another project without having to login twice](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-open-page-of-one-project-from-another-project-without-having-to-login-twice/109149/7):
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> I had a similar problem, with a couple different projects that people were often switching back and forth between. I probably would have developed them as parts of the same project, but it was like that when I started working here, and it would take significant effort to combine them, and people were already used to the navigation structure of each project. What I ended up doing was creating a "wrapper" project that creates a side menu navigation between the projects that toggles their display…

Each has its pros and cons.

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