Create test users and roles

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Description

Estimated time to complete: 10 minutes

In this use case, you create test users and roles, assign users to roles, and log in to the Advanced Identity Cloud end-user UI as one of the users.

Goals

After completing this use case, you will know how to do the following:

Create new users
Create a role
Assign the role to the users

Prerequisites

Before you start, make sure you have a basic understanding of these Advanced Identity Cloud concepts:

Advanced Identity Cloud admin UI
Advanced Identity Cloud end-user UI

Tasks

Task 1: Create new users

In this task, you create two new users.

In the Advanced Identity Cloud admin UI, go to people Identities > Manage.
On the Manage Identities page, click people Alpha realm - Users and add New Alpha realm - User.
On the New Alpha realm - User page, enter the following information for the user, and then click Save:

Field Value

Username

acruse

First Name

alex

Last Name

cruse

Email Address

alex.cruse@example.com

Password

Secret12!
Go back to the New Alpha realm - User page and repeat the last step to add another user with the following values:

Field Value

Username

braman

First name

bina

Last name

raman

Email Address

bina.raman@example.com

Password

Secret12!

Field	Value
Username	`acruse`
First Name	`alex`
Last Name	`cruse`
Email Address	`alex.cruse@example.com`
Password	`Secret12!`

Field	Value
Username	`braman`
First name	`bina`
Last name	`raman`
Email Address	`bina.raman@example.com`
Password	`Secret12!`

Task 2: Create a role

In this task, you create a role called employee. Roles define privileges for user and device identities. Although the role isn’t required for this use case, you can bulk assign users to an application when they are assigned a role.

In the Advanced Identity Cloud admin UI, go to people Identities > Manage.
On the Manage Identities page, click assignment_ind Alpha Realm - Roles > add New Alpha realm - Role.
On the role page, enter the following information for the role and then click Next:

Field Value

Name

employee

Description

Role granted to workers on the company payroll
Skip the option to assign the role conditionally, and click Next.
Skip the option to assign the role temporarily, and click Save.

The employee role page is displayed.
Click Role Members > add Add Role Members.
Select your users from the drop-down list and then click Save.

The role is assigned to the users.

Field	Value
Name	`employee`
Description	`Role granted to workers on the company payroll`

Check in

At this point, you:

Created two new users

Created a role

Assigned the role to the users

Validation

To validate your work:

In the Advanced Identity Cloud admin UI, go to account_tree Journeys and click on the Login journey provided as default in Advanced Identity Cloud.
Copy and paste the Preview URL into an incognito window.

The login page for the tenant is displayed.
Log in to the tenant as one of the new users and view the profile page for the user.

Explore further

Reference material

Reference	Description
Roles	Information about roles
Login	Information about the default login journey

Reference

Description

Roles

Information about roles

Information about the default login journey