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This page is for PhixFlow administrators to set up default options that external users will have when they access PhixFlow. For related information, see the User Administration topic.

Overview

If your PhixFlow instance is integrated with a system-wide authentication system, you may have users who can log into PhixFlow without previously having a user account. These users are known as external users. When they log in, PhixFlow needs to know what privileges to give external users. You configure external user privileges by matching user groups in your external system with user groups in PhixFlow; see Configure Groups for External Login.

When an external user logs into PhixFlow for the first time, PhixFlow creates a user account for them. The user account has a subset of the options available for local PhixFlow users; see User for details. The minimal user account includes:

  • their user name
  • a default locale, copied from the System Configuration → General Settings → System Locale.

You may have groups of users who: 

  • only use a subset of your PhixFlow applications
  • work in different parts of the world, and need to have different locales.

In these cases, you can create external user templates. In each template you can set different defaults for specific external user groups. If a user belongs to an external user group specified in the template, when they log in, PhixFlow creates the user account with the defaults from the template.

Basic Settings

FieldDescription
NameThe Enter the name of this external user template.
OrderThe Enter the number to specify the order of this template in a list of multiple templates. If there are multiple templates, PhixFlow checks them in order until it finds a matching external group name. To check or change the order for multiple templates, see System Configuration.
External Groups

One Specify one or more names of the external login groups that will be mapped to this external user template. If you want to include the PhixFlow instance (such as test or production) in the external group name, use {instance}; see Configure Groups for External Login.

Separate multiple names with a semi-colon. Spaces are taken to be part of the group name.

PhixFlow does not validate the group names, so you need to make sure they exactly match the group names in your external system.

External Groups EvaluatedRead-only. If you use {instance} PhixFlow displays the names of the external login groups with the variable replaced by the instance name.
Default LocaleRequired. The Select a locale to use in the user account.
Default ApplicationThe default application to use Select the application to use as the default in the user account.
Export Password PolicySelect the password policy to use as the default in the user account.
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How PhixFlow Decides Which Template To Use

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  • in multiple templates, the first one is used
  • in no template, the last one is used.
Tip

Make sure the last external user template has defaults that are appropriate for any user.

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