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Building Websites with TYPO3

By : Michael Peacock
Book Image

Building Websites with TYPO3

By: Michael Peacock

Overview of this book

<p>The book has 8 chapters, each dealing with a different aspect of TYPO3 and by the end you can genuinely claim to have tamed the beast that is TYPO3.</p> <p class="TISBody">TYPO3 is a popular, free, feature-rich open source content management system. It has the flexibility and scalability to more than match commercial systems and allow you to build a powerful and complex website. Because of its complex system and numerous extensions, TYPO3 can be daunting on first approach and the initial learning curve can be steep. However the nature of its advanced features will reward an extra investment in learning.</p>
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Editing Back-End Users


Within the Tools module, we have a User Admin area to manage and edit our back-end users, as shown in the screenshot:

This then takes us to the Backend User Administration page. We have a huge list of options and these are used if we wish to compare our users. So, we can group the users by setting the Main user group option, and the users from each group will be listed together.

This option is shown in the screenshot:

The results of the grouping of the users are listed in the RESULT section; by default, users are grouped alphabetically, and all users are displayed. Here is the screenshot:

We can create a new back-end user from here too, by clicking the New record button that is placed on the right of the Usernames heading. Going from left to right, the icons next to each username are as follows:

  • Show information

  • Edit

  • Disable

  • Delete

  • Switch to

  • Switch back

The Show information button opens a new pop-up window containing useful information about the user, as shown in the screenshot...