<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8' ?>
<!DOCTYPE section PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
<!ENTITY % BOOK_ENTITIES SYSTEM "../../User_Guide.ent">
%BOOK_ENTITIES;
]>
<section id="sect-User_Guide-Register_New_Accounts" role="NotInToc">
  <title>Register new account</title>
  <para>
    As a guest user, you can visit eXo Platform but are limited to a lot of content and applications.
    To access more content 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
        <guilabel>Register</guilabel>
        on the top of the portal if you are in the ACME sample site.
		</para>
      <mediaobject>
        <imageobject role="html">
          <imagedata fileref="images/Register.png" format="PNG" align="center" scale="110"/>
        </imageobject>
        <imageobject role="fo">
          <imagedata fileref="images/Register.png" format="PNG" align="center" width="100mm" scalefit="1"/>
        </imageobject> 
      </mediaobject>
	  <para>
	  If you are in the ACME Social intranet, click <guilabel>Register</guilabel> at the bottom of the portal.
	  </para>
	  <mediaobject>
        <imageobject role="html">
          <imagedata fileref="images/Register2.png" format="PNG" align="center" scale="110"/>
        </imageobject>
        <imageobject role="fo">
          <imagedata fileref="images/Register2.png" format="PNG" align="center" width="100mm" scalefit="1"/>
        </imageobject>
      </mediaobject>
      <para>
        The
        <guilabel>Create a New Account</guilabel>
        form appears as below:
      </para>
      <mediaobject>
        <imageobject role="html">
          <imagedata fileref="images/AccountSetting.png" format="PNG" align="center" scale="110"/>
        </imageobject>
        <imageobject role="fo">
          <imagedata fileref="images/AccountSetting.png" format="PNG" align="center" width="100mm" scalefit="1"/>
        </imageobject>
      </mediaobject>

      <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>
                <guilabel>Asterisk (*)</guilabel>
              </entry>
              <entry>
                This mark next to each field indicates that it is required to input values in this field.
              </entry>
            </row>
            <row>
              <entry>
                <guilabel>Username</guilabel>
              </entry>
              <entry>
                The name used to log in. The username must be:
                  <itemizedlist>
                      <listitem>
                          <para>Lowercase (a - z), digit (0 - 9), underscore (_), and dot (.) characters, but consecutive underscore (_) and dot (.) are not allowed. </para>
                      </listitem>
                      <listitem>
                          <para>From 3 to 30 characters in length.</para>
                      </listitem>
                      <listitem>
                          <para>Lowercase for its first character.</para>
                      </listitem>
                      <listitem>
                          <para>Lowercase or digit for its last character.</para>
                      </listitem>
                  </itemizedlist>
              </entry> 
            </row>
            <row>
              <entry>
                <guilabel>Password</guilabel>
              </entry>
              <entry>
			The authentication string which must be between 6 and 30 characters, including spaces.
              </entry>
            </row>
              <row>
              <entry>
                <guilabel>Confirm Password</guilabel>
              </entry>
              <entry> Retype the password above. Values in both
              <guilabel>Password</guilabel>
              and
              <guilabel>Confirm Password</guilabel>
              fields must be the same.
              </entry>
            </row>
			<row>
			<entry>
			<guilabel>First Name</guilabel>
			</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>
			<guilabel>Last Name</guilabel>
			</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>
			<guilabel>Email Address</guilabel>
			</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 (for example, 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>
			 <guilabel>Text Validation</guilabel>
			 </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
        <guibutton>Subscribe</guibutton>
        to accept your new account, or
        <guibutton>Reset</guibutton>
        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 
		<inlinemediaobject>
            <imageobject>
              <imagedata fileref="images/Glass_icon.png" format="PNG" scalefit="1" width="4mm"/>
            </imageobject>
          </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>