Umbraco Basics

Logging into Umbraco Admin The Umbraco Interface Working with Content Sorting or Reordering Pages Editing Content Preview Content and Changes Copying Content from Word Inserting Images into Content Creating Links Inserting & Linking PDFs into Copy Linking to an email address Media Section Adding Video Adding Users FAQs Reset a user password Writing Meta Tags Related Links How to insert a table Inserting Extra Columns and Rows to Your Table Uploaded Image Is Upside down!?

Adding Users

First, choose Users from the umbraco section menu.

Then right click the users folder and choose create.

You will be asked to enter a username.  Enter the username, and click create.

 

The following screen will be displayed. For details on each area, see the table below.

Item Explanation
Username A name for the user. 
Login The name the user will use to login to Umbraco.
Password Click the change password link to enter or update the user's password.
Email The user's email address.  This can be left blank.
UserType

This effects what the user can do:

The key items are:

Writer: Can create and edit content, but can not make their changes live.
Editor: Can create, edit and publish content. 
Language Their language.
Start Node in Content You can limit users to specific areas of the site.  For example, you may have blogger that you do not want to give access to the entire site.  Choose their start node as the blog, and that is all they will be able to access.
Start Node in Media As above, but applies to the media section.
Redirect to canvas  Redirects the user to the home page with editing enabled.  Turned off by default.
Disable Umbraco Access Prevents the user from logging on to umbraco.
Disable User Removes the user from any backend functions.
Sections Tick the sections that you would like this user to be able to view.