| Configuring People-Related Settings / Managing Access | |
You can configure the application so that new users can create their own accounts and invite others to join the community.
You can also configure the application to display a terms and conditions page when new users register. For more information, see Configuring Terms and Conditions.
Select Allow users to create their own accounts to enable user-created accounts and to allow all registered users to invite others to join via email (users will see the Send Invites button on the People browse page). When this is selected, people can sign up for a new account from the community login page. The registration process will then take them through a brief set of screens through which they add the information you've selected on the remainder of this page.
Use the following table to configure user account settings.
| Setting | Description |
|---|---|
| Password Strength Check | You can specify how strong you want user passwords to be. The password strength indicator will help the person registering create a password that's strong enough to qualify. |
| Human Input Validation | Enable this to require that a person registering be prompted with
a captcha image. The image displays text
(distorted to prevent spam registration) that the person must enter
correctly to continue with registration. This is a way to discourage
registration by other computers simply for access to the community for
sending spam messages. Human input validation generally isn't needed for internal communities that aren't accessible to the public. |
| Email Validation Settings | Enable this to have the application send an email to the person registering at the address they provided (you can edit the contents of the template used for the email). By default the email includes a link that the person must use to prove that the email address they gave is a valid one. This is another means to discourage false registration. |
| Welcome Email Settings | Enable this to have the application send the new user an email when they've finished registering. You can edit the template for emails like this. |
| User Wizard Settings | Enable to send new users through a wizard that helps them set up their profile. If you disable, then users will need to click their name to the upper right corner and then click Edit profile & privacy in the Actions list. |
| Registration Moderation | If you enable moderation for community registration requests, new requests will appear on the moderator's page in the community. (If you have a user administrator, that person will approve or decline requests; otherwise, the system administrator will get those requests.) To learn more, see Moderating User Registrations. |
| Fields displayed at registration | You can define the fields that are displayed to prompt a user for information while they're registering. The fields you can choose from here are based on the fields defined for user profiles. For more on profile fields, see Configuring User Profile Templates. |