To sign into Decko, you must have an accounts.
Like everything else on Decko, accounts are represented in cards. People with accounts can be given both permissions to contribute and credit for their contributions. When someone is signed in, a link to their card will show up on comments they make, in Recent Changes next to cards they've edited, etc.
If Johnny Carson signs up for an account on a standard Decko deck, the user experience of the signup process should seem pretty familiar: you enter your name, email, and password, you get a confirmation email, you click the verification link...
Everything that happens behind the scenes is tracked in cards. The following cards will get created along the way:
Most Decks feature a "Sign Up" link near the top right corner of every page. Clicking on that link will take you to a Sign up form (which is actually the "new" views of the card named "Sign up"). When you Sign up for a Decko site, you are creating a Sign up cards, along with cards for your email, encrypted password, etc. By default Anyone can create a Sign up.
If you also have permissions to create User cards, then after you Sign up you will receive a verification email. Clicking on that email will confirm your email address and then change your Sign up into a User (by changing the card's types) and activate your account.
If you don't have permissions to create User cards, then someone who does will need to approve the account.
When you sign in with an email and password, you will typically see a link to your card (the card with your name) at the top of the page. If you navigate to that card, you will be able to access account details and roles settings via the card's menus. This is the easiest way to update your email or password.
If you ever lose your password, just click on "Sign In", and then "RESET PASSWORD". This will prompt you to give your email address, to which Decko will send a verification email with a new token that will allow you to reset your password. If you lose access to your email address, or forget which one was used when you got the account, you'll have to contact an Administrator to sort things out.
If you are signed in and have permission to create User, then you can invite someone to Wagn via /new/:signup (typically reachable via an "Invite " link at the top of a page).
As with any card, permissions rules for Sign up and User can be edited via the advanced item on the menus. Some important permissions to consider.
There are three account-related Email template you may wish to customize:
Because both Sign up and User are normal cards, each can be formatted like any other card. So, for example, you can add an nesting like to the *structure of a Sign up card, and this will add a newsletter field to the sign up form.
If your User card shares the same field with the sign up card, then the value of this field will, of course, persist and be displayed even after the card's type is changed. All Sign up fields will persist upon approval, in fact, but you can independently decide whether and how to display these fields on the User card.