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Business Process Portal Administrator's Guide
Managing users : Managing user accounts : Creating users
 

Creating users

To create a Business Process Server user, complete the following steps:
Note: You cannot create a user in LDAP, LDAP hybrid. When you use the OEHybrid realm. then the option of adding and removing users does not appear on the Users page in the Business Process Portal. You can add or remove users using an ABL procedure (.p) file to the _Users table of an OpenEdge database. For more information on adding or removing users using an ABL procedure (.p) file, see the OpenEdge Single Point of Authentication (SPAInstructions.pdf) document in your OpenEdge installation directory at $DLC\src\samples\security.
1. On the Home tab, from the User Management drop down list, select Users.
2. Click Create User.
The Create User page is displayed enabling you to enter the new user information.
3. In the User Details section, enter the relevant data as necessary.
For more information about the fields, refer to the "Chapter 11, Managing Profile and Favorites" in the Business Process Portal User’s Guide.
Important: The fields marked with a red asterisk are required fields.
Note: The user name must contain only alphanumeric characters and underscore (_), and it must start with an alphabet.
a. If you do not assign any business calendar to the user, then the default calendar is used for the due date calculations. Such a user can assign a business calendar to him/herself from the Home module when he/she clicks Preferences > Calendar for the first time.
b. From the Assigned column in the Dashboard table, select the dashboards to be assigned to the user. This list contains the published dashboards. The assigned dashboards appears in the Dashboard List of this user.
c. From the Default Selection column in the Dashboard table, select the dashboard to be assigned to the current user as the default dashboard.
Alternatively, you can also assign a dashboard to a user from the Dashboard Details page. For more information, see Defininga new dashboard.
If you do not assign any dashboard to the user, then the default dashboard specified by the Business Process Server administrator is used.
If you set the multiuser.credetial parameter to "true" and the appuser.credential parameter to "false" in the sdms.properties file, then you must specify the DMS username and its password.
4. At this time, you can also assign permissions or configure portal resources for the new user.
For more information, see Managinguser permissions .
5. To customise the access to various sub-tabs in the Home, Management and Administration tabs, click the Business Process Portal Configuration tab and select or clear the appropriate checkboxes.
6. Click Save to create the new Business Process Server user and go back to the previous page.
Click Save & Create New to save the current user and reload the current page to continue adding another user.
To reset the form and remove the information you just entered, click Reset. To cancel the action and exit the current page, click Cancel.