New User Registration Terminology

The following terms are important to the understanding of New User Registration framework and are used throughout the documentation.

Term	Description
Guest	New user. A person who is unknown to the Campus Solutions system and who wants to perform an online transaction. A guest needs to register for a user ID to access the system.
Returning User	A person known to the Campus Solutions system and who wants to perform an online transaction. This person uses an existing user ID and password to access the system.
CTM	Constituent Transaction Management. This is a framework that allows a user to perform an online transaction without having an EMPLID known. CTM stores the constituent and the transaction-specific data in staging records. The system assigns an EMPLID only after the user saves or submits the online transaction. Using CTM allows no interruption for a user to complete an online transaction because the process that the system uses to assign an EMPLID is completely transparent to the online user.
Online transaction or online self-service transaction	This refers to the transaction that consumes the New User Registration framework.
Login page	The page used to access the Campus Solutions system. The login page is integrated with the New User Registration framework security objects. Institutions customize the sample login page or use their own page to comply with their security management requirements.
Target page	The page to which the guest or the returning user is redirected after being authenticated through the New User Registration framework. The target page is defined in the New User Registration Context setup component.
Landing page	The page to which the guest or user is redirected before registration and authentication by the system.
Autologger	An object that the New User Registration framework delivers. This object allows signing in the guest or the returning user directly into your system after being successfully authenticated.
Gatekeeper	A utility that the New User Registration framework delivers. This utility acts as a router for all requests from external clients wishing to access Campus Solutions self-service pages. An external client is a user interface that is built by an institution and that lie outside the PeopleSoft system. The Gatekeeper uses the New User Registration Context ID to provision application-specific security role and transfer the user to a specific target page after authentication.
SwitchUser	A PeopleTools function used by the New User Registration Tester sample page to autolog the guest’s or the returning user’s entered user ID. The function switches a signed in user to another one.
Anonymous user	When the guest elects to create a new user ID, he or she is first considered an anonymous user by the system.
Provisioning	New User Registration provisions security roles at two levels: Basic provisioning: When a guest creates a new user ID though New User Registration, basic roles are provisioned to the newly created user profile. Basic roles grant access to generic information that all users are required to have to access and navigate in your system. This provisioning is required. Specific provisioning: When a New User Registration Context is used, the guest or the returning user is provisioned just-in-time after being authenticated with application level security. The security provisioning done here is specific to the application integrated with New User Registration. This provisioning is optional.