Creating a User Account

Goal

Create Vendor user accounts for Sweet Honey and Happy Farm vendors.

Prerequisite knowledge

• Concept: Users, Roles, and Permissions
• Concept: The User 1 Account
• Creating a Role

Site prerequisites

The Vendor role must exist on your site. See Creating a Role.

Steps

1. In the Manage administrative menu, navigate to People (admin/people).
2. Click Add user.
3. Fill in the form fields. See the table below.

   Field name	Explanation	Example value
   Email address	A valid email address for the vendor. All emails from the system will be sent to this address. The email address is not made public.	honey@example.com
   Username	A username for the vendor that they will use to sign in or author content items. Spaces are allowed; punctuation is not allowed except for periods, hyphens, apostrophes, and underscores.	Sweet Honey
   Password	A password the vendor will use to sign in to the site. You can see how safe the password is on the _Password strength_ gauge. You also get tips on how to make it safer.	(Make a secure password)
   Confirm password	Type the same password to avoid any typing mistakes.	(Repeat password)
   Status	Set the status of the user account. _Blocked_ users will not be able to sign in.	Active
   Roles	Set the role of the user account.	Vendor
   Notify user of new account	Whether or not to send a notification to the vendor's email address.	Checked
   Picture	Click _Browse_ and select a picture to upload. Pay attention to size restrictions.	Photo of the vendor
   Contact settings	Enable or disable the display of a contact form for the account.	Checked

4. Click Create new account. You will get a notification about the user account creation.
5. Create a second Vendor account for Happy Farm by following the steps above.

Expand your understanding

Create a user account for yourself.

Videos

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