§Setting up Users.
You get to the Categories page by clicking Editing User Fields and Creating New Users. The bottom part lists the users, and allows you to Edit the existing Users
from the menu. The top part of the page shows options for§Edit Userfields
Userfields are custom bits of information about users to use in your templates. Once defined, you can refer to the by using [[user:userfield_name]] in your templates. If you want to create or edit userfields, you will be asked to edit the following fields:
§Internal Name
This is the name of this item as it will appear when you tell pivot to display it in a template in the form of [[user:userfield_name]].
§Display Name
The name users see when they are editing My Info
§Size
The size of the field in My Info.
§Maximum Length
The maximum length that a value of this userfield can be.
§Userlevel
For which users this field appears in My Info.
Normal/Advanced/Administrators, defaults to Administrators
§Create Users
To create a user, click Create User, and fill out the username, password, userlevel and languagefields. In the bottom section of the page, tick the categories in which you want to allow the user to post articles. Click create, and you're done.
§Edit Users
The Edit Users page is very much the same as the Create Users page described above, with the difference that you can also edit the Userfields and set the preference for the Wysiwyg editor. Usually you'll want your users to set these themselves, but if they cannot figure out how to do this, or you want to set some default values, you can help them out with this function.
§Userlevels
There are five different user levels:
- moblog: This user can only post entries through the moblog interface. Since the moblog interface accepts passwords that are sent via mobile phones and email, they are relatively susceptible to fall into other people's hands. This is why moblog users are not allowed to log into pivot.
- normal: This user can write entries, edit and delete his own entries.
- advanced: This user can write entries, edit and delete his own entries and those of 'normal' users, and is allowed to moderate the comments.
- administrator: This user can do anything the 'advanced user' can do, but can also change and add weblogs, edit users and categories and do the other things in the menu.
- super administrator: This is the all-powerful user you created when you logged on. There is always exactly one super administrator account