User Creation

Topics to be covered:- How to create a user ? How to set user level permissions ? How to assign a role to a particular user ?

How to create a user ?

Lets have a look at the steps to be followed while creating a user :- Firstly, you need to login to Sitecore by entering your credentials and clicking on Desktop Interface.

Note: You will find 3 options on your login screen – Desktop, Content Editor and Page Editor. For user creation or security related work, we need to click “Desktop” option. After login, you will see the home page of Sitecore. At the lower-left corner, there is a Sitecore start button.

Click on the Sitecore button Navigate to “Security tools” Click on the “User Manager” option.

User Manager page will open up. To create a new user , click on “New” option.

You need to fill up few details You need to fill up few details. After filling up details ,click on Next.

User will be created successfully. Click the Finish button.

You can see now that the newly created user has been displayed on the user manager page.

How to assign a role to a particular user ?

Double click on the user . Click on the “Member Of” option.

We will now assign Test2 role for user2 We will now assign Test2 role for user2 . Select roles from the available roles and then Click on “Add”. Then Click on “OK”.

After clicking on “OK”, you will be able to see the role added in the “Member Of” section Click on OK. Role has been assigned to the user.

How to set user level permissions ?

Select the user and then click on “Access Viewer”. Access Viewer page for that particular user opens up.

When you expand “Content” folder , you can see the Home node and two site folders . We have given access rights to user2 for both sites i.e. site1 and site2. Read , Write , Create and Administrator rights have been given by directly clicking on the respective options.

There is an other way where we can give access rights to the folders There is an other way where we can give access rights to the folders. Click on site1 folder and then go to “Assign” option.

A page will open up where you can give access rights to the folder A page will open up where you can give access rights to the folder. You can even give rights to the sub folders or you can say “Descendants”. Rename and Delete permissions have been given to the descendants.

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