Clicking on the “Groups” button on the left, and then on “New group” on the right
And how exactly are groups used? I get you can add/remove people from groups but not what effect this has. I suspect you imply adding groups in the current permissions screen?
Yes that is correct. The point of groups is to prevent having to give/edit/remove permissions to dozens, or sometimes hundreds of users. By putting all users in different groups, we would just have to go to the current permission screen, enter the group name, and select the permissions.
This would be so helpful. Write now I have to create separate accounts to enable log ins before viewing the forms, Kindly let us know when this can be actualized.
Also, having the ability to see every single user that created an account on your server would be great.
Right now I’m not sure how to check if somebody have hijacked my kobotoolbox instance for their own use.
With such a user management feature, it should then be possible to disable the ‘Create new account’ feature too.
@paperSheet This seems to be a different objective. To see every user on the server you have to use your superadmin account (which you created when you installed the instance). From there you can see all users in the Django backend. To be sure, no one is ‘hijacking’ your server if you’re allowing anyone to register for an account (which can also be turned off in the Django backend). For more questions on this please post in the ‘KoBo on your own server’ category.
Thanks @tinok, I eventually figured that the users created with the Django super admin could only work with kobo if their username did not contain a dot.
From there I could indeed mass create users.
Good Day everyone.
I dont have any idea of Django and i would love to create user and manage users(Collaborators) for my forms on Kobo collect is there any other way of doing it?
New to the forum as a user but a satisfied KoBoToolbox user for some time now. I also wonder if there is an update regarding this topic? I can only confirm that also our projects would benefit from centralised / advanced user management.
Hi @niels396
Welcome to the community f.orum. It would be helpful if you explained your user management context and we can then be specific on what has been addressed by recent developments. It would be helpful if you also had a look at our announcement section in the forum to see what has transpired in the releases.
Hi Josh could you please help me creating users on my own kobo server? I try to do it normally but I get crashed when I create the user and don’t work.
Thank you
I’m wanting to be able to add large quantities of users with the same permissions to a project, so yes that would qualify under the link you shared, but that doesn’t necessarily address adding large quantities of users to the project in the first place. Ideally these would be able to be done in the same step or without having to click each user/type each username. I could see this being done by uploading a csv with usernames in one column and group(s) in another. Right now it seems like I’m going to have to create one project that doesn’t require users to register and have them input their username. I’m then going to create a second project only open to users that have filled out a submission for the 1st project. I can then use the usernames as a variable in the 2nd project.
With regards to the uploading large amounts of users and their associated groups, it could also be a GUI, but I’m just thinking about situations where others have large numbers of users in a single project and lets say only half need to be added to a certain group. I’m assuming in most cases these users/usernames are coming from people who already have that data in an excel file or CSV.
