§Setting up Users.

You get to the Categories page by clicking Administration » Categories from the menu. The top part of the page shows options for Editing User Fields and Creating New Users. The bottom part lists the users, and allows you to Edit the existing Users

§Edit Userfields

Userfields are custom bits of information about users to use in your templates. Once defined, you can refer to the by using [[user:userfield_name]] in your templates. If you want to create or edit userfields, you will be asked to edit the following fields:

§Internal Name

This is the name of this item as it will appear when you tell pivot to display it in a template in the form of [[user:userfield_name]].

§Display Name

The name users see when they are editing My Info

§Size

The size of the field in My Info.

§Maximum Length

The maximum length that a value of this userfield can be.

§Userlevel

For which users this field appears in My Info.
Normal/Advanced/Administrators, defaults to Administrators

§Create Users

To create a user, click Create User, and fill out the username, password, userlevel and languagefields. In the bottom section of the page, tick the categories in which you want to allow the user to post articles. Click create, and you're done.

§Edit Users

The Edit Users page is very much the same as the Create Users page described above, with the difference that you can also edit the Userfields and set the preference for the Wysiwyg editor. Usually you'll want your users to set these themselves, but if they cannot figure out how to do this, or you want to set some default values, you can help them out with this function.

§Userlevels

There are five different user levels: