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Admin Panel
> User Management
User Management
The user Management allows you to monitor
and manage users. From here you can control the access levels
of the users, control the limits and well everything from
A-Z about the users can be done from here.
Searching Users
Linked from the Main Admin Panel leads to
a Selection user panel which askes for the method to select
a user for managing. There are 3 ways to do that,
- username
- email address
- or by the real name search
shows the options shown under selection user panel
Listing Users : Actived ~ Unactived ~ blocked ~ All
- Activated: Lists users which have confirmed there registeration
- Unactivated: Lists users not activated but are not older
than the maximum unactivation days specified in the configuration.
- Blocked: Lists the users the admin has blocked the rights
to enter or display albums
- All Users: Lists all the users the system has registered
This can be achived by options in the main admin panel or
the selection user panel under User management.
Changing User Options
Changing Username / Realname / email
To Change username and realname, just type in the new username
and realname in the fields and update the account.
To change and email address, you just need to type in a new
valid email address, but theres another option which will
change the current password to the new one to check the user's
new email address validity. Doing this will send a new password
to the new email address, hereby seeing if the user has that
new email address as his/her own. If you do not check the
field for password change, then simply the new email address
will be added in the db, not changing the current password.
Changing user specific Language preference
As simple as selecting... Also read: Changing
Default Language
Changing Status / Blocking user
Status of user shows whether the user is:
- Normal: Activated and not blocked
- Blocked: Activated but blocked, user won't be given
access to the system authentication, albums will be blocked
for public view
- Unactivated: User is unactivated
You can change the status by selecting a new one, but changng
from activated to unactivated will not put the user in waiting
list. Therefore this can be used if you want user not log
in but albums should be blocked which are done in the blocked
status.
How to unblock users, who were blocked automatically by
expire date?
You just need to change the status to Activated and change
the expire date to a new date.
Changing password
As the passwords are kept in encrypted format and can't be
decrypted so if you want issue a new password to the user
you give have to do so by typing in a new one and then to
inform the user check the checkbox which says sendmail.
Changing Album, space, photo, reminder Limit
Changing the limits is just as easy typing numbers, just
type in the new value of the limit you want that user to have.
- Note: if you want to provide user space in KB or
less than use . for that, e.g. if you want to give the user
the space limit of 30 MB and 200 k then you just type in
30.2.
You can optionally set these values:
- 0 = No Limit
- -1 = Restricted Access
Preferences or Prefs
Preferences column contains small identifiers named FLAGS,
each of letter depicts a type of indication of the user's
customisation, access and other values. These are case-sensitive
and you should take care while editing them manually. The
current flags understood by Albinator are:
| L (uppercase) |
Listing of Public Albums
only |
| l (lowecase) |
Listing of All Albums |
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To remove listing at all
remove L from the table (upper and lower none should be
there) |
| B |
Border with thumbnails and full images |
| M |
Has manipulate access |
| R |
Has reminder access to
monthly reminders |
| E |
No email show in the user profile |
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To show email remove E from prefs |
User Validity
You can define the date when the user account will be expired,
the user won't be allowed to access the system after the validity
period, if you wish to disallow the view of user's albums
also, you must block the account
too.
Tip: You you can set a default time period e.g. 1
week for all users who signup from Configuration
> Default Rules > Default
User Validity = 7. You can use this as a demo account, you
can provide any number of days for default validity, e.g.
for 1 year = 365.
Note: Mail settings at expiry time can be done from
your Configuration > Critical
Settings
Assigning / removing Admin Access
To give admin access just select from the admin option YES
value, vice-versa for removing it.
Change user specific theme
Change user groups
User specific Watermark Policy
This is used for putting user specific watermark policies.
This option is given so tht you can provide watermrked uploads
for free accounts and no watermarks for paid accounts. This
will be overridden by the Watermark
Global Rule.
Viewing Last Access Information
The second last row shows the last access of the user, IP
address followed by date and time recorded as per the server
clock.
Deleting User
You can delete the user by click on the top left corner of
the managment page which says Delete,
Note: deleting user will delete his/her albums, pictures
and every other information listed and put his email in the
publist section
Viewing users pending ecards / reminders / albums / logs
/ profile
Viewing and editing the various other options, all links
are provided on the top of the table.
Viewing Activation Date or msg / current status
you can find these at the bottom of the user management section
Shows the confirmation date when the user activated his/her
account
Shows the current status whether offline / online
Sending account information details to user
Sending information will change the current password and
then send the username and the new password to the user at
the email exisiting in the account information. You can find
the option on top of the user management table which says
"send details"
emailing user
you can send an personlized email to the user, by clicking
on the option mail user, which in backend uses the Notify
Panel more details on forming the mail in the Notify section
Importing User database into Albinator Tables (ver
1.01+)
This is a small utility which can be accessed from your User
Management panel by clicking on the link import.
The minimum requirements for Albinator's user-table are to
provide with:
- Username
- Real Name
- Password (must be either orignal or md5 encryption format)
- Email
and as you can see these fields are the most common and used
almost in all user-databases.
How to go about it..
Importing is as simple as clicking, you just need to know
the database_name (which has your orignal user-tables), the
username and the password of that database. The name of the
above mention fields. (if you don't know what the field names
are, you can simply check the table-structure using utilities
provided by your host or using a free utility name phpMyAdmin).
Once you have provided the field names, the import things
to remeber are:
- whether your current user-tables have passwords which
are already encrypted using md5 alogrithm.
- you wish the users to activate their albinator accounts
by sending them activation links OR allow them direct access
to the system with welcome mail informing them about the
new addition to your website. You can also select no welcome
mail sending (select none). The optional welcome message
can be types in the message field.
That's it press import button and you are done.
screen shot of the DB Importer utitlity
Options on the Adminstration Panel are:
Configuration & Customization
Adding Account
All other admin options are pretty self explanatory or with explanation's besides them.
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