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 is available to either the user or the administrator but until it is activated, an account 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 – the status if no password was set when the account was created. It forces the user to set a password before they can sign in.

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 – is automatically set when a user enters an incorrect password multiple times in a row. After a period of time, the locked flag expires and the account can be used 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 or by Administrators going to the user’s account profile page. It is automatically set when PageSeeder receives “away” or “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:

Icon Sign in Email Description
lock icon No Yes The account is locked temporarily.
vacation icon Yes No The account is flagged as on vacation and does not transmit immediate notifications.
shield-alt icon No Yes A new password is required to use the account.
warning icon No No The account is not activated.
ok icon Yes Yes The account is activated and available to use.

How to find this page

Administration menu >  tools icon System administration > Members > Accounts “Show all accounts” option

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

and on the Account profile page.