DSpace/C2/User-Registration-in-DSpace/English

Script: User Registration in DSpace

Author : Pankaj Patil

Keywords: DSpace users, EPerson, DSpace User Registration, EPerson Profile, Administrator, Community Administrator, Collection Administrator, Submitter, Reviewer

Visual Cue	Narration
Slide: Title	Welcome to this spoken tutorial on User Registration in DSpace.
Slide: Learning Objectives	In this tutorial, we will learn to Register a user in DSpace Crossverify user registration Edit user profile and Distinguish between different users in DSpace
Slide: System requirements	This tutorial is recorded using Ubuntu Linux OS 18.04 DSpace version 6.3 and Firefox web browser However you may use any other web browser of your choice.
Slide: Pre-requisites	To practice this tutorial, you should have Installed DSpace 6.3 on your system. Tomcat server should be running A working internet connection should be available
Slide : Pre-requisites	Configured Email settings in DSpace If not then please go through the prerequisite tutorials on this website.
Slide: Users in DSpace	Let us understand the different user roles in DSpace. DSpace has the following user roles. Administrator Anonymous EPerson Community Administrator Collection Administrator Submitter and Reviewer We will learn about these roles in detail later in this tutorial.
Narration Only	First let us proceed for user registration in DSpace.
Open Web Browser	Open a web browser.
Address Bar >> localhost:8080	In the address bar type localhost:8080 and press Enter.
Click on Sign on to tab	In the DSpace interface, click on the Sign on to tab at the top right corner.
Select My DSpace	Select My DSpace from drop-down.
Click on New user? Click here to register	In the Log In to DSpace section, click on link New user? Click here to register.
User Registration form Enter E-mail address	This will take us to the User Registration page. Type a valid email ID in the E-mail address field. For this demonstration, I will type dspace.u2@gmail.com
Click on the Register button	Then click on the Register button in the User Registration form.
Point to Registration Email Sent	If the email id is valid, then we get a message, “Registration Email Sent”. Before creating an account, DSpace verifies the email ID.
Open New tab in the browser	Now, let us proceed for email verification. Open a new tab in the web browser. Log into the email account which you used for the registration.
Show Gmail login interface	I will log in to the mail account dspace.u2@gmail.com
Locate mail DSpace Account Registration	In the Inbox, locate the mail with the subject “DSpace Account Registration”. It may take some time to get a “DSpace Account Registration” email.
Only narration	If you can’t find the mail in the Inbox, you can check in the other mail folders.
Open DSpace Account Registration Email	Open the DSpace Account Registration email.
Highlight Registration link http://localhost:8080/register?token=1447db78285ca239fa41d3c402459b80	The account registration mail contains a registration link.
Highlight Token number in Registration link	You will receive a different token number in the registration link as compared to mine.
Click on Registration link	Click on the registration link provided in the email.
Narration only	If you are accessing DSpace from a remote machine, type the remote machine IP instead of the localhost.
Registration Information form	The Registration Information form opens in the DSpace interface. The fields marked with an asterisk are mandatory.
Enter Firstname, Lastname First name = Pankaj Last name = Patil	I have typed the values for Firstname and Lastname as Pankaj Patil.
Point to Contact telephone and Language	Leave the field Contact telephone as blank. And keep the value for the Language field as English.
Enter Password Password : u2pass	Next, we have to set a password for the user Pankaj Patil in the Password field. I will type u2pass.
Only narration	The length of the Password must be at least 6 characters long.
Re-enter Password Password : u2pass	Re-type the same password in the field Again to Confirm.
Click on Complete Registration button	Once you have filled the form, click on the Complete Registration button.
Point to Registration Complete	If the form is filled correctly, we will get a message, “Registration Complete”.
Narration only	The user is now successfully registered in DSpace. Let us try to login with the newly registered user.
Click on Sign on to tab	Click on Sign on to tab at the top right corner.
Select My DSpace	Select My DSpace from the drop-down. Log in to DSpace form opens.
Log in to DSpace form E-mail Address : dspace.u2@gmail.com Password : u2pass	Type the Email Address and Password for the newly registered user. i.e. Pankaj Patil. And then click on the Login button.
Point to the DSpace page for user Pankaj Patil	My DSpace page appears. That means the user registration in DSpace is successful.
Only narration	DSpace offers the Edit profile feature to all registered users. Let us proceed to edit the profile of user dspace.u2@gmail.com
Click on drop down next to Logged in as dspace.u2@gmail.com	At the top right corner, click on the drop-down next to the text “Logged in as dspace.u2@gmail.com”.
Select Edit Profile	Then select Edit Profile from the drop-down. Edit Your Profile page appears.
Highlight each field	The user can edit First Name, Last Name, Contact telephone, Password etc.
Update Last Name Last Name : Kumar	Let me update the Last Name as shown. Ensure that all the details are correct.
click Update Profile button	Then click on the Update Profile button at the bottom of the page.
Point to “Profile Updated” message	On successful updation, we will get a message “Profile Updated”.
Logout from DSpace	Let us logout this user from the DSpace interface.
Slide: Role for Registered User	So far, we have successfully registered a user and edited his profile. By default, all the users who are registered in DSpace are assigned to the role EPerson.
Slide : EPerson	EPerson is a registered user of DSpace. EPerson Can view items which are published publicly. Can upload items in the authorized Collection.
Slide : EPerson	Can also be assigned some other roles in DSpace. For eg: Administrator, Community Administrator, Collection Administrator, Submitter, and Reviewer.
Slide: Anonymous User	Anonymous users Are not registered users in DSpace. They can view items which are published publicly. But they cannot upload items and They don’t have any authority in DSpace.
Slide: Administrator	Administrator users can manage EPersons, communities, Collections, items, and other administrative activities.
Slide: Community Administrator	Community Administrator manages the authorized communities in DSpace.
Slide: Collection Administrator	Collection Administrator manages the authorized Collections in DSpace.
Slide: Submitter	Submitter can upload items in the authorized Collections.
Slide: Reviewer	And, Reviewer can review the items in the authorized Collections.
	We will be learning more about these roles in later tutorials.
Narration only	With this we have come to the end of this tutorial. Let us summarise.
Slide: Summary	In this tutorial we learnt to : Register a user in DSpace Crossverify user registration Edit user profile and Distinguish between different users in DSpace
Slide: Assignment	As an assignment, register two new users with unique email IDs in DSpace.
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Slide: Acknowledgement -I	Spoken Tutorial project is funded by MHRD, Government of India.
Slide: Acknowledgement -II	DSpace spoken tutorial series is funded by the National Virtual Library of India, Ministry of Culture, Government of India.
Narration only	This script and video for this tutorial was contributed by Pankaj Patil from IIT Bombay. This is Nancy Varkey signing off. Thank you for joining.

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