K2 For Joomla 012 : Create User Group & User Field

In this tutorial, we learn How to create a user group and user field in k2. Adding a new user. A user is a person (or group of persons) who has authenticated itself by providing the registration data you requested. Normally, you create user accounts in order to grant access to exclusive parts of your site or allow your visitors to post their content. In order to create a new user you will have to go through the following steps: 1. Log in to the administration panel of your Joomla! web site 2. Open the User Manager 3. Add the new user Now, let's fill in the user details: Account details • Name - this field will contain the user's real name, like John Smith. • Username - this would be the user or login name to be used to log in to the site, like jsmith or yellowbird67. • New password - here you can enter a temporary password that you will send to the user so it can log in for the first time. The user will be able to change this later to something that is easy to remember. A good rule of thumb for choosing a safe password is to use small letters together with capitals and numbers while having a minimal length of six characters. A good example would be p9HWc0Ak. • Verify password - here you have to reenter the previously chosen password just to make sure there was no typo in the first one. • Email - here you enter an email address for the user. • Receive System E-mails - Set if the user should receive system relevant e-mails. If the user is an Administrator or Super Administrator you probably want to set this option to "No". • Block user - here you have the possibility to disable a previously created user account without deleting it. This option might be useful for banning users until they (or you) take a certain action. Simply set this option to Yes to disable the account. • Assigned User Groups • Choosing the correct group to assign your user to may be crucial for your site's security so pay attention when setting this up! • Go to component choose user group and then click on create a new group • Basic Settings • Back-end Language - this parameter sets the administration panel's language. • Front-end Language - this parameter sets the website's panel's language when the user is logged in. • User Editor - this parameter specifies which one of the built-in editors the user will be using while editing the information on the site. • Help Site - where you can specify the location of the help files. These can be read from the files installed on your server (Local) or from the Joomla! site (help.joomla.org). I usually prefer setting this option to help.joomla.org as this information tends to be more up to date. • Time Zone - well, this speaks for itself. Here you can set the user's time zone. This information will be used wherever time and date is displayed to the logged in user. The Contact Information field will show the user's contact data if there is a corresponding entry in the Contact Manager. Once you are done entering all the information above, click the Save button (the floppy disk icon in the upper-right corner). If you have enabled the user (by setting the Block User field to No), it is now able to log in using the username and login you have set. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- For more K2 video tutorials Follow K2 Series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chXHUznHJrU&list=PL5h0O7gkJiGUKhkGl0L3anfL795mAcbL_