Account status and flags
Key point: Indicate whether user account can sign in or receive email messages.

A feature that helps administrators to support users.

Activation is a process separate to the creation of a user account. It can be completed by either the user or the administrator. Until an account is activated, it has only limited functionality.

The different account status values are:

  • Activated – the account is fully functional.
  • Unactivated – the default status of a new account. The user cannot yet sign in, but can visit the “get started page” to activate. No email notification is sent to unactivated accounts.
  • Password not set – this status applies when no password was set during account creation. The user must set a password before they can sign in.
  • Disabled – this status is applied when an administrator has deliberately disabled the account. It prevents the user from signing in and receiving notifications.

For developers: Through the PageSeeder API, developers can create user accounts that are already activated or not.

Flags

The following values on a user account affect how comments or tasks notifications are sent to users:

  • Locked – automatically set when a user enters an incorrect password multiple times in succession. After a period of time, the locked flag expires and the account becomes usable again.

For administrators: Administrators can unlock an account through the user’s account profile page.
  • On vacation – stops sending notifications to the account email address. This flag can be set by a user clicking the Set on vacation button in their personal details page or by Administrators going to the user’s account profile page. It is automatically set when PageSeeder receives “out of office” auto-reply messages from an account email address.

For administrators: Administrators can customize the auto-reply message patterns to trigger the “on vacation” flag in the global properties.

Account status and flag icons

PageSeeder uses the following icons to quickly identify the state of the account:

How to find this page

Administration menu > System administration > Members > Accounts

and on the member panel:
Administration menu > Members > Accounts > [account]  View/edit

and on the Account profile page.