Overview of user account management
As an administrator, you can view and edit user's basic information, reset their passwords, view their community content, or delete their account altogether.
To view or edit a user account summary:
- In the Admin Console, go to .
- In the list of users, click on the username of the user whose user account you want to edit.
- View and edit the account settings.
- Click Update to save the changes.
Here are the settings you can change.
Profile information
Among the user properties, you can see the information that's part of the user's profile. Much of this is the same information that the rest of the community sees when they view the user's profile.
Password
You can change the password for a user. Note that you can configure the application to enable users to request their own password reset. If that feature is disabled, then you can reset the password from this account summary. For more information about self-registration, see Configuring self-service user registration.
Deactivation or deletion of user account
You can disable a user account, removing their access but keep their content in the system. Alternatively, you can delete the user with all their content. For more information, see Deleting and deactivating user accounts.
User activity in your community
You can view lists of the documents, discussion messages, and blog posts that a user has contributed or worked on. The User Properties lists display quantities for each, and you can view a list of the items themselves by clicking the name of the kind of item you want to view.
Visibility settings
You can choose whether or not a user name and email address are visible to others in the community.
An administrator can configure the application so that a user can set the visibility of their own name and email address. In that case, then the user is able to change the setting independently of the setting you make in the Admin Console — that is, if you change it, they can change it back.
Group membership
If the user account is a member of user groups, links to those accounts are displayed among the user properties.
User groups are a way to collect user accounts to more easily manage user access and permissions. For more information about them, see Managing user groups.
Email notifications
The User Properties list displays the number of email notifications the person is signed up for. Clicking User Properties shows the details for this.
Avatars
If a person has uploaded their own avatars, their User Summary page displays the images they've uploaded. You can delete avatar images from this page.
For more on managing avatars, see Managing Avatars.
User properties
User properties are simple name-value pairs that developers can use to work with the user account in their code. User properties are often used as a way to keep track of extra information about the user account. A user can have multiple properties. When you're working with properties, remember that entering the name and value for an existing property will update that property's value to the one you entered.