About User Accounts

Discussing user accounts is "getting the cart before the horse" in the SiteMaker workflow, but you will be managing user accounts so it is best to understand how SiteMaker handles them. Here are the basic rules regarding user accounts is SiteMaker:

• You create user accounts on the fly when managing access groups. There is no page specifically for adding a new user.
• All user names must be a valid and complete email address.
• You cannot access a user's password so it is up to you to educate them how to retrieve a forgotten password or change their password.

When you add a new user...

All the users for your site are actually users for SiteMaker in general. You may add a user to your site who happens to have privileges to another site. When you add a new user to your site SiteMaker will first look to see if the user name (email address) already exists. If it does they will simply gain new privileges.

If the email address you add is a brand new user SiteMaker will send this person an email telling them of their new SiteMaker account. This email will contain their new, randomly generated password along with a link so they can change their password to something easier to remember.

No user, new or existing, will receive a notice telling them of the new privileges you have given them. It will be up to you to inform them of this.