Users Introduction

User Profiles are roles in your application. Each User Profile can be associated with any number of Properties, Images, Attachments, and Tables.

Sharing Attributes across Multiple Profiles

If your multiple profiles happen to have the same Properties, you can extract them to a container profile which will group them.

Example

A company has a lot of employees, but all of them have the same attributes like name, email, and emergency contact. Because of this, it would be a good idea to create a profile for 'employee', and then use more specific ones for specific roles in the company.

app/user_profile_types/employee.yml

name: employee
properties:
  - name: name
    type: string
  - name: email
    type: string
  - name: emergency_contact
    type: string

app/user_profile_types/software_developer.yml

name: software_developer
properties:
  - name: programming_languages
    type: string

app/user_profile_types/project_manager.yml

name: project_manager
properties:
  - name: projects
    type: string

Sign Up Forms

Sign-up forms allow users to sign up by entering their information in a form embedded in a page. Put forms in for the site itself, or in for code you want to reuse or package.

User Authentication

There are a couple of ways to authenticate a user in Insites, the most common being through an email and password pair, which the user provided via a sign-up form.

Related Topics

Please visit the following links to explore additional topics related to Users:

• Creating a Database Field for all Users
• Creating a User Profile
• Creating a Sign-Up Form
• Embedding a Sign-Up Form in a Page
• Signing In a User Manually
• Signing In a User Automatically after Sign Up
• Logging Out an Authenticated User
• Resetting Password of an Authenticated User
• Accessing Authenticated User Data
• Sharing Attributes Across Multiple Profiles