As an administrator, you can easily add an Acrolinx user.
Important
If you've configured external authentication, you can’t create users or edit user passwords. Create users in your directory service instead.
To add a user, follow these steps:
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Navigate to Settings > Users.
Notice
The Users page will open in a new tab as it's now in the modern view.
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Click Add User to open the slide-out menu.
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Enter a username and optionally the user's full name.
A username should be a unique identifier of each user within the organization. For example, users can use their email addresses or personnel numbers.
Tip
Acrolinx doesn’t differentiate between upper and lower case. Usernames are case insensitive.
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Select the relevant checkboxes in the Roles section to assign one or more roles to the user.
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(Optional) Add user information if available. The user will be asked to confirm this information before they run their first check.
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If user license types are available, you'll need to select one.
Note
You can only see the license type if you have a license that's configured with both named and concurrent user limits.
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Click ADD. The saved settings will take effect immediately.
By default, Acrolinx generates a password for new users.
If you can't use federation to create your users and you have too many users to create manually, you can allow Acrolinx to register users from Acrolinx Integrations.
When a user run their first check, they’re prompted to enter their username. The integration then registers the user with Acrolinx, which automatically creates the user and assigns it the default role.
Warning
We strongly recommend that you don't allow automatic user registration unless you’re running Acrolinx in a secure environment. If you want to allow automatic user registration on an Acrolinx Private Cloud instance, you'll open up Acrolinx to everybody and make your system vulnerable. Contact us if you have any questions about automatic user registration.
This option is turned off by default. As a Standard Stack user, you can turn it on with a core server property.
To allow automatic user registration from Acrolinx Integrations on a Standard Stack instance, follow these steps:
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Open the
coreserver.properties.Depending on your installation, your path might look like this:<config directory>/server/bin/coreserver.properties. -
Add the following property:
autoUserRegistration.enabled=true
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Save your changes and restart the Acrolinx Platform.
The Search users field always appears at the top of the Users page.
To search for a user, follow these steps:
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Go to Settings > Users.
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Enter your search text in the search field at the top of the users table. When you start typing characters in the search field, the user list will display matching usernames.
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Click the name of the user in the user table to open the user details page.