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This topic provides information and instructions about creating a user in the Admin interface.

Note:

If you are using LDAP, refer to the LDAP product documentation, if you are using WEM Admin, refer to “Using the Web Experience Management Framework” in Administering Oracle WebCenter Sites.

Before creating a user, determine the user's:

  • User name.

  • Password.

  • ACLs, which regulate the user's access to WebCenter Sites database tables.

    • To determine the user's required ACLs, see “Required ACLs for Custom Users” in Administering Oracle WebCenter Sites.

    • To determine the user's additional system ACLs, see “System ACLs and Their Permissions” in Administering Oracle WebCenter Sites.

    • To determine which ACLs are assigned to the database tables the user must access, follow the steps in “Assigning ACLs to Custom Tables” in Administering Oracle WebCenter Sites.

To create a user in the Admin Interface:

  1. In the General Admin tree, expand the Admin node, expand the User Access Management node, and then double‐click User.

  2. In the User form, select Add User and click OK.

    You can add a user name before clicking OK; it will appear auto-filled in the Login Name field on the next form.

    The Add User form opens.

  3. Fill in the fields in the Add User form:

    1. In the Login Name field, enter a unique name. Do not include spaces or special characters, such as punctuation. The underscore character (_) is allowed.

    2. In the Access Privileges list, select ACLs for the user. To select multiple ACLs, Ctrl-Click each ACL; you can also select a range of ACLs by selecting the first and last ACL in the range with Shift-Click.

    3. Enter the same password into the Password and Re-Enter Password fields.

    4. Click Add.

      The user is created.

You can create a general administrator. For more information about making the user an administrator or a content contributor, see “Creating Common User Types” in Administering Oracle WebCenter Sites.

To follow-up with post-creation procedures:

  1. If the user implements any of the following options, create a profile for the user:

    • Oracle WebCenter Sites products such as Oracle WebCenter Sites: Engage.

    • Language packs and different languages.

    • Workflow processes that send email messages.

    For instructions on creating user profiles, see “Creating and Editing a User profile” in Administering Oracle WebCenter Sites.

  2. If the user requires attributes in addition to or in place of locale and email (specified in the user profile), create the attributes. For instructions, see “Modifying, Adding, and Deleting User Attributes” in Administering Oracle WebCenter Sites.

  3. After the user has been completely defined, you must associate the user with a site by means of roles.

    1. If you have not done so, create roles for the user, following instructions in “Creating a Role From the Admin Interface” in Administering Oracle WebCenter Sites.

    2. To associate the user to the site, create the site and add the user to the site. For instructions, see Creating a Site From the Admin Interface and “Granting Users Access to a Site (Assigning Roles to Users)” in Administering Oracle WebCenter Sites.