Managing users
While logged in as an administrator, use the User Management button in the Settings menu to create, modify or delete a user. You can select a user group or company code to which to assign the user.
Procedure
- For each user group you want to configure, create a new usergroup.xml file with name as the user group you want to add for each collection, add a configuration file for the new group to one of the following folders.
- If you use Contenta S1000D, add the file to the templates\collections\COLLECTION\working\usergroups\ subfolder of the LiveContent S1000D home directorywhere COLLECTION is the name of the collection you are adding a configuration file for.
Note:
The directory of the default collection, which contains collection information for the sample data, is the collections/default/ subdirectory of the LiveContent S1000D data directory.
- If you do not use Contenta S1000D, add the file to the collections\default\working\usergroups\ subfolder of the LiveContent S1000D data directory
and restart LiveContent S1000D or select F5 to refresh.
- If you have an IETM, add the file to the \data\working\usergroups\ subfolder and restart the IETM.
To create a user group publisher, create a publisher.xml file with the following contents.<user_group> <id>publisher</id> <group_name>PUBLISHER</group_name> <rights>00</rights> </user_group> - If you use Contenta S1000D, add the file to the templates\collections\COLLECTION\working\usergroups\ subfolder of the LiveContent S1000D home directorywhere COLLECTION is the name of the collection you are adding a configuration file for.
- For each company code you want to configure, create a new companycode.xml file with name as the company code you want to add for each collection, add a configuration file for the new company code to one of the following folders:
- If you use Contenta S1000D, add the file to the templates\collections\COLLECTION\working\compcodes\ subfolder of the LiveContent S1000D home directory
where COLLECTION is the name of the collection you are adding a configuration file for.
Note:The directory of the default collection, which contains collection information for the sample data, is the collections/default/ subdirectory of the LiveContent S1000D data directory.
- If you do not use Contenta S1000D, add the file to the collections\default\working\compcodes\ subfolder of the LiveContent S1000D data directory
and restart LiveContent S1000D or select F5 to refresh.
- If you have an IETM, add the file to the \data\working\compcodes\ subfolder and restart the IETM.
To create a company code companyabc, create a companyabc.xml with the following contents.<compcode> <comp_name>companyabc</comp_name> </compcode> - If you use Contenta S1000D, add the file to the templates\collections\COLLECTION\working\compcodes\ subfolder of the LiveContent S1000D home directory
- For each user group you want to modify, do the following.
- If you use Contenta S1000D, modify the file to the templates\collections\COLLECTION\working\usergroups\ subfolder of the LiveContent S1000D home directory
where COLLECTION is the name of the collection you are adding a configuration file for.
Note:The directory of the default collection, which contains collection information for the sample data, is the collections/default/ subdirectory of the LiveContent S1000D data directory.
- If you do not use Contenta S1000D, modify the file to the collections\default\working\usergroups\ subfolder of the LiveContent S1000D data directory
and reopen User Management in LiveContent S1000D to refresh.
- If you have an IETM, modify the file to the \data\working\usergroups\ subfolder and restart the IETM.
- If you use Contenta S1000D, modify the file to the templates\collections\COLLECTION\working\usergroups\ subfolder of the LiveContent S1000D home directory
- For each company code you want to modify, do the following.
- If you use Contenta S1000D, modify the file to the templates\collections\COLLECTION\working\compcodes\ subfolder of the LiveContent S1000D home directory
where COLLECTION is the name of the collection you are adding a configuration file for.
Note:The directory of the default collection, which contains collection information for the sample data, is the collections/default/ subdirectory of the LiveContent S1000D data directory.
- If you do not use Contenta S1000D, modify the file to the collections\default\working\compcodes\ subfolder of the LiveContent S1000D data directory
and reopen User Management in LiveContent S1000D to refresh.
- If you have an IETM, modify the file to the \data\working\compcodes\ and restart the IETM.
- If you use Contenta S1000D, modify the file to the templates\collections\COLLECTION\working\compcodes\ subfolder of the LiveContent S1000D home directory
- For each user group you want to delete, do the following.
- If you use Contenta S1000D, remove the file to the templates\collections\COLLECTION\working\usergroups\ subfolder of the LiveContent S1000D home directory
where COLLECTION is the name of the collection you are adding a configuration file for.
Note:The directory of the default collection, which contains collection information for the sample data, is the collections/default/ subdirectory of the LiveContent S1000D data directory.
- If you do not use Contenta S1000D, remove the file to the collections\default\working\usergroups\ subfolder of the LiveContent S1000D data directory
and reopen User Management in LiveContent S1000D to refresh.
- If you have an IETM, remove the file from the \data\working\usergroups\ subfolder and from the application data directory \working\usergroups and restart the IETM. For information about the Application Data directory location, see Configuring where configuration files for Run from CD are located.
- If you use Contenta S1000D, remove the file to the templates\collections\COLLECTION\working\usergroups\ subfolder of the LiveContent S1000D home directory
- For each company code you want to delete, do the following.
- If you use Contenta S1000D, remove the file to the templates\collections\COLLECTION\working\compcodes\ subfolder of the LiveContent S1000D home directory
where COLLECTION is the name of the collection you are adding a configuration file for.
Note:The directory of the default collection, which contains collection information for the sample data, is the collections/default/ subdirectory of the LiveContent S1000D data directory.
- If you do not use Contenta S1000D, remove the file to the collections\default\working\compcodes\ subfolder of the LiveContent S1000D data directory
and reopen User Management in LiveContent S1000D to refresh.
- If you have an IETM, remove the file from the \data\working\compcodes\ subfolder and from the application data directory \working\compcodes subfolder and restart the IETM. For information about the Application Data directory location, see Configuring where configuration files for Run from CD are located.
Regarding the application data directory
- If you use Contenta S1000D, remove the file to the templates\collections\COLLECTION\working\compcodes\ subfolder of the LiveContent S1000D home directory
- In the top bar banner, select the Settings icon.
The Settings menu is displayed.
- From the Settings menu, select the User Management button.
The User Management menu is displayed.
- To create a user, from the User Mangement menu, select Add and set the fields as follows:
Property Description Login Name The name of the user Password The password of the user (must contain more than four characters) Confirm Password Re-enter the password of the user User Group Select a group from the dropdown list Last Name The last name of the user First Name The first name of the user Middle Name The middle name of the user E-mail The user's e-mail address Confirm E-mail Re-enter the user's e-mail address Then select Save.
- To modify a user, select a user from the user list, select Edit and modify the user's information. Then select Save.
- To delete a user, select a user from the user list, select Delete and then select OK.
- select Close.