Member

The groups that a user is a member of, determine the content they can see. The role attached to each specific group membership, determines the functionality the user has. Membership and role for any group is unrelated to what it is on any other group.

Membership of projects and groups is different to having an account on the server. This is an aspect of PageSeeder that can be confusing to new users. Creating an account on a PageSeeder server, although critical, is usually not enough to provide a new user with meaningful access to content. A new user must first have an account, then join at least one group.

The exception to this rule is anyone who joins the server in the role of Administrator.

Key information for all member accounts is the following:

• firstname and surname – both fields are limited to 50 characters (required);.
• username – must be less than 100 characters, unique and cannot contain the @ character (optional).
• email – must be less than 100 characters, unique and a valid email address (required).

Member details

By default, member information is minimal, however, there is a way to extend the member details information. This is done by adding custom member details fields to an account for a particular group.

Although these fields can be configured with additional permission, when modeling, it is important to understand that the fields belong to the account, but only for that group. Meaning that the field contents are not accessible outside the group or that the same field names could have different meanings in another group.