Introduction to Fotoware User Management

Read this first to get an overview of how users are managed in Fotoware.

Adding contact information to a FotoWeb user

Learn where you can register contact information in the user registry in FotoWeb.

Approving signed-up users

How does a site administrator approve a user who has signed up?

Assigning administrative privileges to a group

How to assign administrative privileges to users and allow them to manage certain aspects of the site.

Assigning album permissions to groups

For users to create, modify and share albums on the site, they must be added to a group and assign album permissions to that group. Learn what the different album permissions are and how they work.

Assigning API access to a group

How to give member of a group access to use the FotoWeb APIs.

Assigning InDesign Extension access to groups

How to give InDesign users access to place assets from Fotoware in layouts.

Configuring notifications when users sign up for an account

How to make Fotoware send user signup notifications to a third-party system using webhooks.

Creating a user

Explains how a system administrator manually creates a user and sets user properties in FotoWeb.

Editing the properties of a Fotoware user

Learn how to modify the properties of a user in FotoWeb.

Enabling users to sign up for an account

How to configure Fotoware to allow users to sign up for an account themselves.

Enabling a user or group to manage taxonomy entries

How to enable certain users/groups to create, modify and delete taxonomy entries.

Fotoware Veloz user types - feature comparison

Learn how user licenses and group membership combine to give users effective rights in Fotoware.

Inviting users or groups to sign up to Fotoware

Administrators can send invitations to users or organizations so they can sign up and get an account on the FotoWeb site.

Locking out a user

How to lock out a user from FotoWeb so they cannot log on. The topic also explains how to remove the lockout.

Logging out a user from all sessions

How to log out a user from all sessions if they cannot log in from a new device.

Managing signup invitations to Fotoware

Learn how to manage active invitations to sign up.

Organizing users into groups

Why it's good practice to organize users into groups, and how to do it.

Good practice for organizing users in groups

Setting an expiration date for a user account

Learn how to set an expiry date for user accounts.

Setting a password policy in Fotoware

How to enforce a password policy in Fotoware.

Site ownership - what it means and how to transfer it

What is a site owner? What makes the site owner account special? And how can site ownership be transferred?

Forcing a user to change their password

Getting information about Fotoware users

Modifying common properties for several users

Learn how to quickly change common properties for a whole selection of users with minimal effort.

What do do if the administrator account gets locked out?

What to do if the administrator account gets locked out after enabling SSO for a Fotoware site?