Creating and editing users

You can create users and assign properties to them by using Administration > Users. You can also connect your system to an LDAP/Active Directory database to get user information. You manage user security permissions by assigning users to groups, so you must create some users to test security features.

Click Administration > Users to display a list of current users. A user panel is displayed after the list. The system displays the Name, Login, Email, Limit, Activity (elapsed time since last user activity), and Time Zone of each user. The user record sets default properties for the way that the user can interact with the system and controls the user's login name, password, and password expiration. You can provide the data for a user record to the system through the Management Console or the data can be derived from an LDAP/Active Directory database.
Note: When you edit a user whose record is derived from an LDAP database, many of the fields on the User page are disabled. You change these properties in the source database.

To add a new user, click Add User, edit the panel, and then click Update.

When you display a user record, three tabs are available:

For each user, you can set the following properties on the Details tab:

Name
Specify the display name and label for the user.
Email
Specify the email address where the system can send email notifications to this user.
Note: emails are sent only to users explicitly selected for notification.
User Name
Specify the name that the user types to log on to the Management Console.
Password
Type the password that the user provides to log on to the Management Console. The field is not displayed for users who are logged on. Use this field to enter a new password or change one. Enter the same password in the Verified field.
Limit
Specify the maximum number of jobs the user can launch in a day. When the limit is reached, the system displays messages that indicate that the user's run quota has been exceeded.
Time Zone
Specify the user's time zone. The system uses the time zone of the root user as the default time zone for all times posted.

By default, in-system users and LDAP users are assigned the same time zone as the root user. Users can edit their assigned time zones.

Note: When upgrading to Build Forge 7.1 from a previous version, you will need to manually reset the time zone of the root user.
Verified
Repeat the password to verify that you type it correctly.
Priority Login
Specify whether the user is a priority user. A priority user can always log in to the system; if there are no more available user licenses, the system logs out the user with the oldest session so that the priority user can log in. The root user is always a priority user.
Date Format
Sets the user's preferred date format.
Language
Sets the user's preferred language.
Password Expires
Specify that the user's password will expire. If this option is checked, then the user's password expires after a number of days have elapsed, as specified in the Password Expiration Days system setting.
Uses screen reader
Enable the interface to support screen reader features such as dynamic highlighting and focusing.
Calendar Start Day of Week
Select the day of the week that the Schedule calendar displays first. The default is Sunday.

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