Users Introduction

A User is an account that any of your users can have. Each user is assumed to have a unique email address. You can define properties for all users in the user.yml file.

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

app/user_profile_types/software_developer.yml

app/user_profile_types/project_manager.yml

Sign Up Forms

Sign-up forms allow users to sign up by entering their information in a form embedded in a page. All forms should be located in the directory.

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