topic Re: Setting the user password in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/setting-the-user-password/m-p/209046#M162176 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>A "person" is not a "user" (each user has an associated "person" object though). The "person" doesn't include account information other than the username (to match it to a "user").</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>In short: you cannot create users via JavaScript, you have to use Java; either coding your webscript in Java (see </SPAN><A href="http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/2.1_Web_Scripts#Java-backed_Web_Scripts" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Java-backed Web Scripts</A><SPAN> in the doc; that's what Alfresco does when inviting external users from Share) or creating a BaseScopableProcessorExtension-derived object with a createUser method, that you make available for scripting (see </SPAN><A href="http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/JavaScript_API_For_Alfresco_2.1#Adding_Custom_Script_APIs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Adding Custom Script APIs</A><SPAN>, that's what we've done on a project, because we already had plenty of other extensions).</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>(links I gave are for pre-3.0 releases, but the same applies for Alfresco 3)</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:13:09 GMT t_broyer 2009-01-06T11:13:09Z Setting the user password https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/setting-the-user-password/m-p/209045#M162175 Hi, I have a little problem, I want to create a user thru webscript and found out that there is a People API but there is only a createPerson option. Now my problem is how to set the password for the user to be created? Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:32:00 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/setting-the-user-password/m-p/209045#M162175 chinitovela 2009-01-06T09:32:00Z Re: Setting the user password https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/setting-the-user-password/m-p/209046#M162176 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>A "person" is not a "user" (each user has an associated "person" object though). The "person" doesn't include account information other than the username (to match it to a "user").</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>In short: you cannot create users via JavaScript, you have to use Java; either coding your webscript in Java (see </SPAN><A href="http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/2.1_Web_Scripts#Java-backed_Web_Scripts" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Java-backed Web Scripts</A><SPAN> in the doc; that's what Alfresco does when inviting external users from Share) or creating a BaseScopableProcessorExtension-derived object with a createUser method, that you make available for scripting (see </SPAN><A href="http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/JavaScript_API_For_Alfresco_2.1#Adding_Custom_Script_APIs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Adding Custom Script APIs</A><SPAN>, that's what we've done on a project, because we already had plenty of other extensions).</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>(links I gave are for pre-3.0 releases, but the same applies for Alfresco 3)</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:13:09 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/setting-the-user-password/m-p/209046#M162176 t_broyer 2009-01-06T11:13:09Z