Modify a User Account

Use this effect to hide or automate funcationality related to user administration. For example tasks can be tailor made for advanced rich client user administrators, or accounts can be automatically created in web services, for people registering on thin clients. The effect modifies an existing user account or creates a new user account.

To create or modify a user account, do the following:

In the Name box, optionally enter a name. The name is displayed in the action tree, if a name is not entered, a summary of the effect is displayed.
In the Description box, optionally enter a description.

In General tab:

In the Account Profile list, select the account profile you want to work on.
If the In the Data Set list, select the data set you want to access.
In the User Name box, type the name of the user account. This is the sign in name, and is used to match the account with an object, if the user profile is associated with an object class.
Select Change User Name and type the new user name if you want to change user name for an existing user. This option is only available when selected Account Profile is of type Genus Directory.
To assign a value to full name, select the Full Name check box, and then select Default to use the default value as defined in the Account Profile, or select Override and enter a value. If the account profile is not associated with an object class, the Default option is not available.
To assign a value to mail address, select the Mail check box, and then select Default to use the default value as defined in the Account Profile, or select Override and enter a value. If the account profile is not associated with an object class, the Default option is not available.
To assign a value to password, select the Password check box and enter a value.

The effect attempts to find an existing user account by looking up the User Name. If the account does not exist, one of the following three options can be selected:

Create New Account	The account is created with the specified properties.
Ignore and Continue	The account is ignored and execution of the task continues.
Abort (succeeding actions will not be executed)	A On Modify User Account Error exception is thrown.

In Memberships tab:

Select Grant or withdraw memberships to modify the existing memberships, or select Replace existing memberships to remove existing memberships before adding new.
Click the Add button, to add a new security group to the list.
If you selected Grant or withdraw memberships, for each security group in the list, select either Grant to add the membership, or Withdraw to remove the membership.

In Advanced tab:

To assign a value to language, select the Language check box, and then from the list select a language.
To assign a start page, select the Start Page check box, and then from the list select a short cut.
To set the state, select the State check box, and then select Enabled or Disabled.
To unlock the account if it is locked, select Unlock Account.
Select the Run with Highest Privileges check box to run the effect with elevated permissions. The effect will be run with administrator rights, which is useful to ensure that the action can be performed disregarding any lack of permissions of the user.

When modifying a user account, all values that are not assigned a value will be left unchanged. If the user account does not exist, and a new is created, default values are assigned to fields without assignment. The Password field requires a value when creating a new account.

In the User Name, Full Name Override, Mail Override, and Password fields, you can generate values dynamically by inserting fields from your data sources as part of the field.