Editing your user profile¶

Site Factory stores the information you provide about yourself (such as your name, email address, and user avatar) in your user profile.

To edit your user profile:

1. Sign in to the Site Factory Management Console.
2. In the Site Factory admin menu, click the [username] link, where [username] is your account name.

3. Click the Edit tab.

   

4. Click Save after you complete your changes to your user profile.

Creating users in the Site Factory Management Console¶

To create a user:

1. Sign in to the Site Factory Management Console for your production environment as a user with the platform admin role.

   Important

   Creating users on your non-production environment, instead of your production environment, can cause data synchronization mismatches when syncing users to your non-production environment as part of the website staging process.

2. In the Site Factory admin menu, click the Users link.
3. Click Create a new user.
4. In the Username field, enter the new user’s username.
5. In the Email address field, enter the user’s email address.
6. In the Password field, enter a password for the user which meets the Site Factory password strength requirements, and then re-enter the same password in the Confirm password field.
7. In the Status field, select whether the user should be blocked or active.
8. Select the checkbox next to each of the Roles you want to assign to this user. For more information about permissions assigned to each role, see Site Factory Management Console roles.
9. Select the Notify checkbox to send an email notification to the user about their new account. If you don’t select this checkbox, no notification is sent.
10. (Optional) Select the checkbox for any site groups you want to add this user to. For more information, see Managing site group users.
11. Click Create new account.

Site Factory will create your new user and, if Notify was selected, notify the user of the new account. User creation is logged in the audit log.

Managing existing users in the Site Factory Management Console¶

After you sign in to the Site Factory Management Console, you can view all accounts by clicking Users in the admin menu.

You can use the options on this page to complete user management tasks, including creating new accounts or editing existing accounts to add Site Factory roles that provide Site Factory administrator access. These tasks are logged in the audit log.

For more information about the different types of Site Factory administrative access, see Site Factory Management Console roles.

Managing users on Site Factory-hosted websites¶

Like any other Drupal website, Site Factory-hosted websites provide you with many different user management actions (including adding new users, removing user accounts, and controlling access to different parts of the website) and are controlled separately in each of your Site Factory-hosted websites. User management in the Site Factory Management Console is your responsibility.

Site owners¶

Each Site Factory-hosted website has a single user who is the site owner. Website ownership can be restricted to individuals with the platform admin role.

If you want to delete the user account of a website’s site owner, first transfer ownership of the website to a different user. Failing to do this will cause the website to have no site owner, and only the site owner can transfer ownership or delete a website.

Managing users for Site Factory in the Cloud Platform user interface¶

Each Site Factory subscription includes access to the Cloud Platform interface. You can use this to access your production and non-production Site Factory environments. For more information, see: Site Factory and Cloud Platform.

In the Cloud Platform interface, users who have accounts that allow them access can be assigned permissions and grouped into teams of user accounts with similar permission sets.

If you use the permissions feature in Cloud Platform, Acquia recommends you to enable or use only the following permissions depending on your users’ needs:

For more information about Cloud Platform teams and permissions, see Managing users, teams, roles, and permissions.