ACCOUNTS:

Account Management & Access Control: So far we always made the assumption that:

1. Either some accounts magically exists, or,
2. New employee records can be created via NewEmployee window, which, in turn would automatically create 'employee' accounts.

These are all true, however insufficient. Accounts 'admin', 'employee', 'sales', 'partner', and 'member' come out of the box, and once again we strongly encourage you to disable them as the very first thing once you put your site up.

The first problem you will naturally hit, is, how to change the ACL privilages of an employee. Chances are you will want to create an employee account for yourself and grant it 'admin' privileges prior to disabling the 'admin' account. Or, you can disable the 'admin' first and give us a call next :-)

Another problem you will eventually hit, is, how to create just plain login accounts without all the bells and whistles of an 'employee'. This might be the case when you want to provide login access to your partners, or your beta testers, or to all your paying customers for tech support, discusssion forums, etc.

As mentioned earlier, all login names share the same namespace. I.e., the same login name (or username) cannot be assigned both to an employee and a member. It is deliberately designed this way, so coming across a username in a discussion forum or anywhere else would not cause any ambiguity.

Let's start with creating just plain accounts first: