Creating Visual Guard User

div Creating Visual Guard User

Create Visual Guard User

Visual Guard allows you to create new Visual Guard user accounts.

Note:

You will be allowed to create the user accounts only if you have been assigned the privilege. Refer special roles section for more details on privilege

Follow the steps below to create a Visual Guard User:

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Access the New Visual Guard User menu using one of the options below:

Right click on the Repository Name provided on the Left Navigation Panel and select New Visual Guard User menu.

Right click on the Repository >Users menu provided on the Left Navigation Panel and select New Visual Guard User menu (A).

Select the Repository from Left Navigation Panel and select the New Visual Guard User menu from Action Menu (B).

The Create new user screen will be displayed as shown below:

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To create new user account you have to provide following details:

Sr.No	Field Name	Description
	Username	Enter a unique user name. This name will allow the user to login to the repository and access the application.
	Email address	Enter Email address. The Email address will be mandatory if the repository is configured to require unique email address for each user.
	New password	Enter the new password. The password will be displayed in encrypted form.
	Confirmation	Reenter the password. The password specified here should match the password specified in "New password" field.
	User must change password at next logon	Select this option if you want to allow user to change his password for his next logon. By default, this value is deselected.
	Password Question	Enter the password question. This field will be mandatory if the repository is configured to require a password question and answer for each user.
	Password Answer	Enter the password answer. This field will be mandatory if the repository is configured to require a password question and answer for each user.
Role Assignment:
This section displays the list of available and assigned roles. You can grant or revoke the roles using this section. Refer Grant Role or Revoke Role for more details
	List of Roles	This section displays the list of available roles
	Current Roles	This section displays the list of roles that have been already assigned to the new user.
	Display 'Membership' roles	This option allows user to displays the membership access level to membership API for the application. The user can be assigned Unrestricted, Membership Members Only only or Add Members role only.

For example to create user jsmith specify details as displayed below:

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After specifying above details click

to Save the user details.

Click

if you do not want to create the user.

The new user account (A) will be displayed in the Grid on Right side.

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See Also:

	Modifying Visual Guard User Account
	Lock/Unlock single or multiple users
	Approve/Unapprove single or multiple users
	Grant Roles to multiple users
	Grant Groups to multiple users
	Deleting Visual Guard User Account
	Filter and Select User

Unrestricted is the default Membership Access Level. This access level indicates that all users can use Membership API for creating, editing,deleting or granting roles to users.

Membership Members Only indicates that the users that are members of Membership Manager role can use Application API. This access level indicates that all users can use Membership API

Add Members indicates that all the users can create users and assign the default role of the application.