Joomla! Documentation™

Description

The User Edit screen is used to create a new user or edit an existing user.

How to access

To edit an existing user:

• Select Users → Manage from the Administrator menu. Then...
  • Search for the required user and select the name link in the Name column.

To create a new user:

• Select Users → Manage from the Administrator menu. Then...
  • Select the New button in the Toolbar.
• Or... Select Users → Manage → Plus icon from the Administrator menu.
• Or... Select Users → Dashboard icon from the Administrator menu. Then...
  • Select the Plus icon from the Users panel.
• Or... Select Home Dashboard → Site Panel → Users Plus icon starting from the Administrator menu.

Screenshot

Form Fields

Account Details

• Name. Enter the name of the user.
• Login Name. Enter the login name (Username) for the user.
• Password. Fill in a (new) password. Although this field is not required, the user will not be able to log in when no password is set.
• Confirm Password. Fill in the password from the field above again, to verify it. This field is required when you filled in the New password field.
• Email. Enter an email address for the user.
• Registration Date. Registration Date of the user.
• Last Visit Date. Date the user visited the site last time.
• Last Reset Date. Date and time of last password reset.
• Password Reset Count. Number of password resets since starting the last reset time.
• Receive System Emails. (Yes/No) If set to yes, the user will receive system emails.
• User Status. (Blocked/Enabled) Enable or block this user.
• Require Password Reset. (Yes/No) If set to yes, the user will have to reset their password the next time they log into the site.
• ID. Record number in the database.

Assigned User Groups

Basic Settings

• Backend Template Style. (Use Default/Hathor - Default/isis - Default) Select the template style for the Administrator Backend interface. This will only affect this User.
• Backend Language. (Use Default/English (United Kingdom)) Select the Language for the Administrator Backend interface. This will only affect this User.
• Frontend Language. (Use Default/English (United Kingdom)) Select the Language for the frontend interface. This will only affect this User.
• Editor. (Use Default/Editor - CodeMirror/Editor - None/Editor - TinyMCE) Editor for this user.
• Time Zone. (Use Default/Abidjan/Accra/Addis Ababa/Algiers/Asmara/...) Time zone for this user.

Accessibility Settings

• Monochrome. Yes/No
• High Contrast. Yes/No
• Highlight Links. Yes/No
• Increase Font Size. Yes/No

User Actions Log Options (tab available for Super Users only)

• Send notifications for User Actions Log. (Yes/No) If set to yes, the User will receive user actions log notification by email
• Select events to be notified for. Select the user actions log notifications to be sent by email.

Toolbar

At the top of the page you will see the toolbar shown in the Screenshot above. The functions are:

• Save. Saves the item and stays in the current screen.

• Save & Close. Saves the item and closes the current screen.

• Save & New. Saves the item and keeps the editing screen open and ready to create another item.

• Cancel. Closes the current screen and returns to the previous screen without saving any modifications you may have made. Or

• Close. Closes the current screen and returns to the previous screen without saving any modifications you may have made. This toolbar icon is not shown if you are creating a new item.

• Help. Opens this help screen.

Quick tips

• Name, Login Name, and Email are required.
• If you did not fill in a particular language, editor, help site and/or time zone, the default settings from the Global Configuration, Language Manager and/or Template Manager are set.

Related information

• Users
• Users: Groups
• ACL Tutorial for Joomla! 3.x