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=====Editing Admins: Documentation=====

The ##admins## page allows you to **add**, **edit** and **remove** Administrators (also called //admins//, see [[AdministratorFunctionsInfo 'What is an admin?']]) from your PHPlist system. This page also allows you to **[[SettingAdminPermissionsInfo set the permissions]]** for each administrator. You can access the admins page by clicking on 'admins' under the 'Administrator functions' heading on the main page.


===Admin page: Description ===

##** # Administrators**##
~Indicates the total number (#) of admins in the database.

##**Find an admin: [empty text field] #%go#% **##
~Allows you to **search** for admin(s). Procedure:
~~1) Type in the search text in the [empty text field].---
~~Note: you can input part of a word to find a match. //For example:// typing ##'ohn'## will find ##'John'##, as well as ##'Johnny'## or ##'Gohn'##. No wildcards, such as ***** or **?**, are allowed.
~~1) Click #%Go#%.

##**Administrators**##
~~{{table columns="2" cells="Administrators;del;admin;del;listadmin;del;listadmin2;del"}}
~This lists the admins on the system (//admin, listadmin, listadmin2// in this example). Clicking on ##**del**## will **delete** the admin.

##**add new admin**##
~To add a new admin to your system. For more, see below: //Creating a new admin.//

##**import list of admins**##
~To import a list of admins from a file: see ImportAdminsInfo.


===Creating a new admin: procedure===

To **create** a new admin: click on ##**add new admin**##, and fill in the following lines:
To **edit** an existing admin: click on the admin's name in the table listing all the admins in the system, then edit the following lines:

##**Admin Details:**##

//Example://
{{table columns="2" cells="ID;4;Login Name (max 25 chars);listadmin;Normalised loginname;listadmin;Email;listadmin@phplist.com;Time Created;2002-05-31 10:37:15;Time modified;20020531111727;Modified by;listadmin;Password;password;Last time password was changed;0000-00-00;Is this user Super Admin?;1;Is this account disabled?;0"}}
//Short description://
##**Login Name (max 25 chars)**##
~Login names may contain a space (as in 'Admin One')
##**Normalised loginname**##
~''What's the difference between this and the loginname? What's the use of having this here?''
~''Normalized login name is the login name in lowercase with spaces replaced by underbars. This is the machine-friendly version of the login name.''
##**Email**##
~This email will be used as the default outgoing email when this admin tries to [[SendMessageInfo send a message]]. ''verify''
##**Modified by**##
~ Displays the name of the (super)admin which last changed this account
##**Password**##
~Note: the password is not encrypted. ''Can it use any characters? ?''
##**Is this user Super Admin?**##
~0=no, 1=yes. SuperAdmins have all permissions. If you want to [[SettingAdminPermissionsInfo set admin permissions]], choose 0. If you want to set this admin as a [[SuperAdmins SuperAdmin]], choose 1.
##**Is this account disabled?**##
~0=no, 1=yes. A superadmin can (temporarily) disable an admin account. This admin cannot login until his/her account is enabled again by the superadmin

Once you have typed the appropriate information, click on: #%save changes#%

When you edit or create an admin, you should also take special care in [[SettingAdminPermissionsInfo setting admin permissions]] properly. See SettingAdminPermissionsInfo for details.


**Related pages**
- [[AdministratorFunctionsInfo Administrator functions]]
- [[SettingAdminPermissionsInfo admin permissions]]
- [[AdminAttributesInfo admin attributes]]
- [[ImportAdminsInfo Import admins]]

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