User registration settings reference

Here you can find the settings available for user self-registration.

Fastpath: Admin Console: People > Settings > Registration Settings

Table 1. User-Created Accounts
Setting	Description
Allow users to create their own account	With this check box selected, user-created accounts are enabled, and registered users can invite others to join via email. For more information, see Inviting people to community. People can sign up for a new account from the community login page. The registration process then takes them through a brief set of screens through which they add information about themselves.
Require email address validation for users creating their own account	With this check box selected, self-registering users must validate their email. You can change the email template as described in Editing email notification templates.
Enforce Community Domain list	With this check box selected, a person must have an email account belonging to the Community Domain List which is configured in its own section.
Allow new external contributors to create their own account when invited by email to an externally accessible group	With this check box selected, external contributors can create their own accounts. Alternatively, community administrators create accounts for external users themselves. For more information, see Managing external groups.

Table 2. Registration Security
Setting	Description
Registration Moderation	With this enabled, new requests appear on the moderator page in the community (Moderation > Pending Items.) If you have a user administrator, that person must approve or decline requests; otherwise, the system administrator gets those requests. For more information, see Setting up user registration moderation.

New user account

Use the following table to configure user account settings.

Setting	Description
Welcome Email Settings	With this feature enabled, the application sends the new user an email when they've finished registering. You can edit the contents of the template used for the email.
Password Strength Check	This setting defines how strong user passwords must be. The password strength indicator then helps the person registering to create a password that's strong enough to qualify.
Human Input Validation	With this enabled, a person registering is 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 only 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.
Fields displayed at registration	The fields that are displayed to prompt a user for information while they're registering. The list of fields here is based on the fields defined for user profiles. For more information on profile fields, see Configuring user profile templates.