Terrastories Support Materials
  • Introduction
  • OVERVIEW
    • About Terrastories
      • How Terrastories is being used
    • FAQs
    • Getting started
    • Terrastories demo
  • USING TERRASTORIES
    • Exploring the Terrastories main interface
    • Using the Terrastories member dashboard
      • Exploring and creating stories, speakers, and places
      • Customizing your community theme
      • Setting up users and roles
      • Setting up an Explore Terrastories view for your community
      • Modifying map settings
      • Importing data
  • EXPLORE TERRASTORIES
    • What is Explore Terrastories?
    • Exploring the Explore Terrastories interface
    • Setting up Explore Terrastories for your community
  • Operating Terrastories Offline
    • Operating an offline Terrastories "Field Kit"
    • Preparing offline map packages
  • SETTING UP A TERRASTORIES SERVER
    • Hosting environments
      • 🌐 Hosting Terrastories online
      • 🛖 Hosting Terrastories offline as a "Field Kit"
        • Advanced Setup
      • 🍫 Hosting Terrastories on Kakawa (Earth Defenders Toolkit Offline)
    • Navigating the Super Admin dashboard
    • Setting up an Explore Terrastories server
  • MISCELLANEOUS
    • Support
    • Troubleshooting
      • Offline map tiles are not showing up
      • Resetting passwords (using the Rails console)
      • Saving and printing Terrastories reference materials
    • Translating Terrastories
    • Additional resources and references
    • For developers
  • Terrastories website
  • our.terrastories.app
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  1. USING TERRASTORIES
  2. Using the Terrastories member dashboard

Setting up users and roles

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Last updated 1 year ago

Managing users requires admin access. If you are logged in as an editor, member, or viewer, you will not be able to access this settings menu.

As an admin user, you can create, edit, and delete users that have access to your community in the Users view.

The Users view shows a list of all of the users that have access to your Terrastories community, and their respective level of access ("Role").

There are currently four Roles for a Terrastories community:

  1. admin - has permission to view, add, or edit data (restricted and non-restricted); add or edit users; and change Theme settings.

  2. editor - has permission to view, add, or edit data (restricted and non-restricted).

  3. member - has permission to view data (restricted and non-restricted).

  4. viewer - has permission to view data (non-restricted only).

There are several fields you can fill out for a User.

  • The ones that are required are Username, Password and Role.

  • The user's Display Name and Photo are currently only used in the content management system and a few areas on the main application, but we may start to use these more in the future.

  • It is also recommended setting an Email as we may make it possible in the future to permit users to recover their password if they've lost it.