Edit Profile Layout.Portal users can personalize their views of the portal, and, based on content security and users' activity rights, access portal content.
Important: User security is inherited from the folder in which the user is stored. If you do not want a user to be returned in some users' searches, make sure those users are not allowed access to the folder in which the user is stored.
To learn how to create or edit administrative objects (including users), click here.
To learn about the User Editor, click one of the following editor pages:
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Users can create their own accounts through your portal by clicking Create an account on the login page.
You can find all of these users in the Administrative Object Directory, in the Default Experience Definition folder.
Users who self-register have only those access privileges that have been granted to the Everyone group.
Every portal user account is based on a default profile that can include initial My Account settings, the name and number of My Pages, and the layout of the portlets on those My Pages. Portlet preferences, group memberships, and community memberships are not inherited by users created from default profiles.
Default profiles are defined through special users, created in the Default Profiles folder. These special users cannot log in to the portal. They are solely used to assign settings to new users created through invitations and authentication sources and to new self-registered users (as previously mentioned in this topic).
For more information on default profiles, see Edit Default Profile.
To import user information (such as name, address, or phone number) from an external user repository:
Map user attributes from the source user repository to portal properties with the User Information Property Map.
Create a profile Web service pointing to the user repository from which you want to import user information.
Create a profile source, based on the profile Web service, to specify what users, groups, and attributes you want to import.
Run the job associated with the profile source to import the information.
The portal lets you create multiple guest users. This is useful when you want to have different user experiences for unauthenticated users. You can accomplish this by associating each guest user to a specific experience definition, creating experience rules, and customizing the My Page layout for each guest user you create.
Note: To customize the My Page
layout for a guest user, navigate to the user, select it, and click Edit Profile Layout.
For example, you may create two experience definitions and two experience rules. Each rule directs users to a different experience definition based on the URL they use to access your portal. You want users who use one URL to see a different login page and different branding than the users who use the other URL. In this case, you can create two guest users, and associate each one to one of the experience definitions. Then you can modify the layout of each guest user's My Page. When guest users come into one of the experience definitions, they will see the My Page layout associated with the guest user of that experience definition.