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Joining a Site
Step by step instructions for creating a new membership to the site. Members have access to more content and have a personal folder for their own use.
Joining a Plone site gives you the right as a Member to add content, such as images, documents and so forth. Your exact rights depend upon how the site is configured.
To join a site, select the join link, which is usually located in the top right hand corner of the home page.
This opens the join form for you to complete. If this is the first Plone form you have encountered, you will note a few things: A red square next to the label of an input field means the field is required. When you select a field, help text will pop up to the left. You may navigate through the form fields by clicking on them.
There are several fields on the join form:
- Full Name: Your name.
- Username: The username you wish to use, most people choose an alphanumeric value without spaces such as "bob" or "jane97".
- E-mail: A valid email address is required. That way if you lose your password it can be emailed to you. You will be able to change this email address later on by editing your member preferences.
- Password and Confirm Password: The password you wish to use; it must be more than 5 characters in length and can contain letters, numbers and the underscore(_) character. Passwords are case sensitive.
- Mail Password?: Check this box if you would like your password sent to the email address you provided.
Once you have completed this form, click register to submit your information. Then, click log in to access the site immediately.
Logging In
If you already have a username and password, you can log in to the site by typing them into the log in box in the lefthand column and clicking the log in link. Cookies must be enabled for you to log in to a Plone site.
Forgotten password
If you forget your password it can be sent to the email address you provided when you registered. You can request that your password be mailed to you by clicking on the Forgot your password? link located in the left-hand column of the website. If you did not specify a valid email address when you registered, you will need to contact your site administrator.
Logging out
Once you are logged in to the Plone site, in the upper right hand corner you will see a link to log out. It is good practice to log out of Plone when you are finished using it.
Member Folders
By default, a Plone site will automatically create a member area for you to add your own content to. To access it, just click on 'my folder': by default its up there on the right hand side beside your name. You'll see a message saying your folder doesnt have any content - its time to add some!