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Once you have completed the form, click the Create button. The group will be cre‐
ated and you will be returned to the User Manager Groups list.
You can associate simple descriptive metadata (such as a descrip‐
tion or email address) with groups and accounts in eXist, which
can be useful for searching or managing them. The User Manager
in the Java Admin Client and the dashboard both limit the meta‐
data to just a description (and a name for accounts), but you can
set and retrieve additional metadata properties using the XQuery
functions in the Security Manager module, as discussed in sm .
Creating Users
Now we need to create user accounts for each member of the Animal Welfare Con‐
tent Team and add them to the group we created for the team.
From the User Manager, click the Users tab; and then either right-click on an existing
user in the list to get a pop-up menu and click the New User menu item, or simply
click the Create button at the bottom of the User Manager ( Figure 8-8 ).
Figure 8-8. Accessing the New User dialog
When the New User dialog appears, you need to complete the form and click the
Create button. Keep the name of the user simple and remember that user account
names are case-sensitive in eXist. We recommend that you use short usernames in
lowercase. Regardless of the scheme you decide on, you cannot use punctuation or
whitespace when naming a user.
From the New User dialog you can see a list of available groups of which the user can
become a member (providing you have permission to add her to the group). For the
purposes of this scenario, we need to add the new user to our newly created group
called aniwel ( Figure 8-9 ).