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User Administration

One of the most powerful features Drupal is User Management and Permissions. Drupal User-Role model provides an easy and intuitive way to define and control access for people in your organization which can be managed and updated within your department. This allows an organization to define access to their website based on the specific needs of your team.

Here, we'll show you to add a User and assign her to a Role.

Adding a User

There are a few ways that you add a User to a Drupal site. We'll cover the easiest method:

1. Have the user login at http://yoursite.unt.edu/user (N.B. replace 'yoursite')

That's it! Every Drupal site uses LDAP (aka ActiveDirectory) so anyone with an EUID can login on a site. However, without a Role assigned, they won't be able to do much.

Assigning a Role

To assign a Role to a user, you must be an 'admin' on the site. That is, you have been assigned the 'admin' Role on this site. You may be assigned the 'admin' Role when you first requested the site, or another 'admin' may have added you to that Role.

1. Visit the User management section of your site: http://yoursite.unt.edu/admin/user/user
2. Select the user(s) you want to assign the role by using the checkboxes next to their EUIDs
3. In "Update Options" select "Add a role to the selected users" and select the Role to assign to the user(s)

Forms.unt.edu is a central location for dynamic forms provided by UNT Central Web Support.  If your UNT department needs online forms, you may host them here in a matter of minutes, and the results can be emailed to you, downloaded as a CSV or XLS file, or displayed in a table.  

We use Webform for creating dynamic forms and displaying the results. Webform is an extremely powerful module that allows people with minmal (no programming) experience to create truly dynamic forms that would otherwise take numerous lines of code. Webform can be used to create a variety of content aggregation applications including surveys, contests, contact forms, petitions, or event RSVPs. 

In order for your form to appear on forms.unt.edu, you must first log-in at User login on the main page.

Once you have logged in you will need to submit a ticket via the UNT Webmaster Dashboard.

Please include the name of the form you intend to create and a brief description of the form itself and what type of information you intend to collect.

Per our Service Level Agreement we will not create the form for you. We provide a location and place for you to create your form.

Need something to draw your users' eye to your latest article or blog post? In this tutorial, we'll show you how to add a simple thumbnail image that displays alongside your content wherever it shows up on the site.

UNT officially uses Youtube, Vimeo, and ItunesU for hosted video content. There are some major advantages to offsite hosting of media:

• more bandwidth than UNT
• UNT web servers are not optimized for streaming media, and storage is limited
• distributed worldwide content network (so someone in EU gets content served from the EU, and not UNT)
• proper encoding for smooth playback and ideal resolution
• videos are easily embedded on blogs/websites

We do have the media.unt.edu server, if you feel inclined to use the Real Time Streaming Protocol, but as a standalone server, it can only offer limited performance and bandwidth. File access is managed via WebDAV, and you'll be responsible for encoding and setting resolution for your own videos.

If at all possible, we suggest looking to offsite resources that can better handle media distribution. If you plan to offer streaming media, please let us know via a ticket, so we can consult on the ideal design. Since we prefer to not serve videos directly from our dynamic (web3) farm, please keep that in mind when designing your site.

Update: the Views Rotator module has been deprecated, and we're researching to decide which module would best suit UNT's needs. In the meantime, there's a comprehensive list of the supported photo rotator modules at this drupal.org page. If you'd like to try one of these, send us a ticket and we'll install one of the active modules.

In an earlier how-to, we showed you how to set up an image gallery using Drupal's custom content types and the views module. In this tutorial, we'll be adding an additional component on top of that foundation: a dynamic, auto-fading slideshow block. Here's how to get it set up: