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- <!-- $Id: start.adduser.hlp,v 1.2 2004/01/31 09:24:52 ajdonnison Exp $ -->
- <h2>Adding a User</h2>
-
- <p>The next thing you may want to do is create a couple of users. Users
- can be given access to the whole of dotProject or be restricted to only certain
- parts. A fresh install of dotProject will provide you with one
- Administrator user.</p>
-
- <p>Click on the User Admin menu item. You should see one item there, that being
- the admin user you have logged in as. Click on the <strong>add
- user</strong> button.</p>
-
- <p>You'll see a form to fill out for the user. Give the user a Login
- Name, a password (and repeat it in the password2 field). Fill in the
- user's real name. We'll user <strong class="c1">Linus Soft</strong> as an
- example.</p>
-
- <p>Assign the user to the Xinul Company by selecting it from the drop down
- list. You must assign a user to a company. Skip over the Department
- field and fill in an email (it is better to be a real one because a user can be
- notified of certain things in other module of dotProject). Fill in any of
- the other remaining fields at your leisure.</p>
-
- <p>Click on the <strong>submit</strong> button when you are finished.</p>
-
- <p>This will take you back to the user list page. How come their is only
- the admin user? When you create a new user they have no rights to any
- module in dotProject. Therefore they are consider an
- <strong>Inactive</strong> user.</p>
-
- <p>Click on the <strong>Inactive Users</strong> tab. You should see the
- new user you just created. You can click on the login name link to view
- the user's profile but we want to get straight to giving this person some
- permissions. Click on the lock icon to the left of the login name.</p>
-
- <p>In the upper half of the screen you will see the information you entered
- about the user. In the bottom half of the screen you will see an area to
- edit the permissions for the user.</p>
-
- <p>We'll be working mostly in the <strong>Add or Edit Permissions</strong> box
- on the right.<br />
- - Select a <strong>Module</strong> from the down down list (say,
- companies).<br />
- - Select a <strong>Level</strong> of <strong>read-write</strong> from the drop
- down list.<br />
- - Click on the <strong>add</strong> button.</p>
-
- <p>When the screen refreshes you that Linus Soft now has read-write permission
- to the companies module. Linus is a bit of a funny chap though. We
- don't want to give him access to the Swodniw company (for obvious
- reasons). To do this:<br />
- - Select a module of Companies.<br />
- - Click on the dialog button next to the item field (the one with the [...] in
- it).<br />
- - In the pop-up dialog box, click on the Swodniw item in the list.<br />
- - Click on the select button in the dialog box. You will see the Swodniw
- name appear in the Item box.<br />
- - Select a Level of deny.<br />
- - Click on the add button.</p>
-
- <p>When the screen refreshes you will see that Linus has read-write permissions
- to all companies but is denied access to the Swodniw company.<br />
- </p>
-
- <p>Now, click on the <strong>user list</strong> bread-crumb in the title
- block. If the Inactive Users tab is showing (which it probably is;
- dotProject will generally remember where you were) you will see that Linus no
- longer appears in this list. Click on the Active Users tab. You
- should see that Linus now appears in this list.</p>
-