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<section id="sect-User_Guide-Register_New_Accounts">
  <title>Register new account</title>
  <para>
    As a guest user, you can visit eXo Platform but are limited to many contents and applications.
    To access more contents or perform some actions in various applications, you first need to register by yourself and
    contact the portal administrator to gain certain permissions.
  </para>
  <procedure>
    <step>
      <para>
        Click
        <emphasis role="bold">Register</emphasis>
        on the top of the portal if you are in the ACME sample site.
		</para>
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	  <para>
	  If you are in the ACME Social intranet, click <emphasis role="bold">Register</emphasis> at the bottom of the portal.
	  </para>
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      <para>
        The
        <emphasis role="bold">Create a New Account</emphasis>
        form appears as below:
      </para>
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      <para xml:id="Create_New_Account_form_details">
        <emphasis role="bold">Details:</emphasis>
      </para>
  <table>
        <tgroup cols="2">
          <thead>
            <row>
              <entry>
                Field
              </entry>
              <entry>
                Description
              </entry>
            </row>
          </thead>
          <tbody>
            <row>
              <entry>
                <emphasis role="bold">Asterisk (*)</emphasis>
              </entry>
              <entry>
                This mark next to each field indicates that it is required to input values in this field.
              </entry>
            </row>
            <row>
              <entry>
                <emphasis role="bold">Username</emphasis>
              </entry>
              <entry>
                The name used to log in. Only lowercase (a - z), digit (0 - 9), underscore (_), dash (-) and dot (.) characters are allowed with its length from 3 to 30 characters.
                The first and last characters of the username must be lowercase or digit ones.
              </entry> 
            </row>
            <row>
              <entry>
                <emphasis role="bold">Password</emphasis>
              </entry>
              <entry>
			The authentication string which must be between 6 and 30 characters, including spaces.
              </entry>
            </row>
              <row>
              <entry>
                <emphasis role="bold">Confirm Password</emphasis>
              </entry>
              <entry> Retype the password above. Values in both
              <emphasis role="bold">Password</emphasis>
              and
              <emphasis role="bold">Confirm Password</emphasis>
              fields must be the same.
              </entry>
            </row>
			<row>
			<entry>
			<emphasis role="bold">First Name</emphasis>
			</entry>
			<entry> The user's first name which must start with a character. Its length must be between 1 and 45 characters.
			</entry>
			</row>
			<row>
			<entry>
			<emphasis role="bold">Last Name</emphasis>
			</entry>
			<entry>The user's last name which must start with a character. Its length must be between 1 and 45 characters.
			</entry>
			</row>
			<row>
			<entry>
			<emphasis role="bold">Email Address</emphasis>
			</entry>
			<entry>
			<para>The user's email address that must be in the correct form, such as <replaceable>username@abc.com.</replaceable> </para>
            <para>There are two parts in the email address, called local part and domain (e.g, local_part@domain): </para>
                <itemizedlist>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>Local part: Only lowercase (a - z), digit (0 - 9), underscore (_), dash (-) and dot (.) characters are allowed,
                        and the first and last characters of this part must be lowercase or digit ones.
                        </para>
                    </listitem>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>
                            Domain: Only lowercase (a - z), digit (0 - 9), dash (-) and dot (.) characters are allowed, and
                        the first and last characters of this part must be lowercase or digit ones. Note that the dot (.) character is required.
                        </para>
                    </listitem>
                </itemizedlist>
			</entry>
			</row>
			<row>
			 <entry>
			 <emphasis role="bold">Text Validation</emphasis>
			 </entry>
			 <entry>
			  The text to verify your registration.
			 </entry>
			</row>
          </tbody>
        </tgroup>
      </table>
    </step>
    <step>
      <para>
        Fill values into fields.
      </para>
    </step>
    <step>
      <para>
        Click
        <emphasis role="bold">Subscribe</emphasis>
        to accept your new account or
        <emphasis role="bold">Reset</emphasis>
        to clear all your entered values. If your registration is not successful, there will be warning messages which indicate invalid fields.
      </para>
    </step>
  </procedure>
  <itemizedlist>
  <listitem>
  <para>
    After adding a new account, you should contact your administrator to get appropriate permissions for your account.
  </para>
  </listitem>
  <listitem>
	<para>
	Click 
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          </inlinemediaobject> to check if your entered username already exists or not.
	</para>
  </listitem>
  </itemizedlist>
    <note>
          <para>
            Be sure you enter your email address carefully. Should you forget your username or password, you can recover
            it from this email address.
          </para>
    </note>
</section>