Create a user

This HOWTO provides the steps to create a user via the Stroom User Interface.

Assumptions

The following assumptions are used in this document.

  • An account with the Administrator Application Permission is currently logged in.
  • We will be adding the user burn
  • We will make this user an Administrator

Add a new user

To add a new user, move your cursor to the Tools item of the Main Menu and select to bring up the Tools sub-menu.

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Stroom UI Tools sub-menu

then move down and select the Users and Groups sub-item to be presented with the Users and Groups configuration window as seen below.

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Stroom UI New User - Users and Groups configuration

To add the user, move the cursor to the New icon in the top left and select it. On selection you will be prompted for a user name. In our case we will enter the user burn.

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Stroom UI New User - Add User

and on pressing OK will be presented with the User configuration window.

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Stroom UI New User - User configuration

Set the User Application Permissions

See Permissions for an explanation of the various Application Permissions a user can have.

Assign an Administrator Permission

As we want the user to be an administrator, select the Administrator Permission check-box

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Stroom UI New User - User configuration - set administrator permission

Set User’s Password

We need to set burn's password (which he will need to reset on first login). So, select the Reset Password button to gain the Reset Password window

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Stroom UI New User - User configuration - reset password

After setting a password and pressing the OK button we get the informational Alert window as per

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Stroom UI New User - User configuration - reset password complete

and on close of the Alert we are presented again with the User configuration window.

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Stroom UI New User - User configuration - user added

We should close this window by pressing the Close button to be presented with the Users and Groups window with the new user burn added.

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Stroom UI New User - User configuration - show user added

At this, one can close the Users and Groups configuration window by pressing the Close button at the bottom right of the window.

Last modified November 1, 2024: Merge branch '7.3' into 7.4 (98246aa)