Registering Users

Login in as camden (stefano and jean know the password). Use the Plone interface via Plone Setup to add a new user. (It can be also done at the Zope level: go to ZMI and select acl_users and then the Users tab, where you can add a user name and password. Then go back to Plone Setup and put in the role and email address.) The person's real name can be entered via user preferences when they first login.

Commenting

Plone allows anyone creating a document to allow discussion. This is set via the properties tab. But people have to login before adding a comment. Therefore we need to enable self registration. All done 23.02.09.

Joining

Self registration is intended to be done via a join button on the personal bar next to the login button. It was already set as visible in portal_registration. But the site had been closed (i.e. people couldn't register). This was set at Manage Access. Or go to ZMI and select security tab. Then look at the acquire permissions until you find add portal member and then tick it.

Following some help from Morten Petersen at Nidelven (23 Feb 2009), the following problems were fixed:

• Plone can email a password to a registered user;
• users can be added via Plone Setup
• the join button works and we can have commenting.