Add Users to a Cloud Account with IDCS

If you are using an Oracle Cloud Account with Oracle Identity Cloud Service (IDCS), then you can use Users tab on the Oracle Visual Builder console to access the features of IDCS to manage users and security for your Oracle Cloud services.

Add Users

After Oracle Visual Builder is provisioned, you need to create the required user accounts in the identity domain of your Oracle Visual Builder instance.

Only a user with the Identity Domain Administrator role or the User Administrator role through delegated administration can create user accounts. When Oracle Visual Builder is provisioned, the Identity Domain Administrator account is created automaticatlly.

To add a user account, you need to know the first name, last name, and email address of the user.

1. Sign in to Oracle Cloud.
2. From the Infrastructure Console, click the navigation menu in the top left corner, expand Platform Services, and then click Visual Builder to open the Instances page.
3. In the Oracle Visual Builder console, click Users.
4. On the User Management page in the Oracle Visual Builder console, click Identity Console.
5. On the User Management page in the Oracle Identity Cloud Service console, click Add.
6. In the First Name and Last Name fields of the Add User dialog, enter the user’s first and last name.

   To have the user log in to Oracle Visual Builder with their email address:

   1. Leave the Use the email address as the user name check box selected.

   2. In the User Name/Email field, enter the email address for the user account.

   To have the user log in to Oracle Visual Builder with their user name:

   1. Clear the Use the email address as the user name check box.

   2. In the User Name field, enter the user name that the user is to use to log in to the Oracle Identity Cloud Service console.

   3. In the Email field, enter the email address for the user account.

   
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7. To assign the user account to a group, click Next. Otherwise, click Finish.
8. In the Add User window, select the check box for each group that you want to assign to the user account. Click Finish.

After the user account is created, the user receives an email with the sign-in credentials.

For more details about creating and managing users, see Managing Users with Identity Cloud Service Accounts in Managing and Monitoring Oracle Cloud.

Assign Roles to Users

The Identity Domain Administrator must assign roles to users to specify the tasks they can perform in Oracle Visual Builder. A user can have more than one role.

The role assigned to the user determines the privileges and tasks the user can perform in Oracle Visual Builder. See Oracle Visual Builder Roles and Privileges for a description of the various predefined roles available in Oracle Visual Builder.

1. Sign in to Oracle Cloud.
2. From the Infrastructure Console, click the navigation menu in the top left corner, expand Identity, and then click Federation.
3. In the Federation page, click the Oracle Identity Cloud Service Console link.

   If multiple instances are listed, click the Oracle Identity Cloud Service Console link for the console instance you want to open.

4. From the Oracle Identity Cloud Service console, click the navigation menu in the top left corner, and then click Applications.
5. Click the link for your Oracle Visual Builder instance.
   You can use the filter to help you locate your instance. For Oracle Visual Builder instances you might want to search for the name of your instance appended with “vb” (for example, “Testvb”, or “VISUALBUILDERAUTO_Testvb”.
6. Click the Application Roles tab.
7. To grant a role to users:
   1. Click the menu options icon shown next the role, and select Assign Users. If you want to assign the role to a group, you need to select Assign Groups.
   2. Select the check box next to the name of each user that you want to add to the role, and then click Assign.

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