All users can edit their password and update their e-mail address. To do this, click the "My account" link under "Account" in the left-column menu of the Big Medium control panel.

Users with administrator or webmaster accounts can also edit or delete other users' accounts (a webmaster can do this only for accounts with access privileges to sites for which the webmaster himself has privileges). To retrieve the account to edit, click the "Get User Info" link under "Account" in the left-column menu of the Big Medium control panel.

Get User Info

Webmasters and administrators can look up user accounts with the "Get User Info" panel. To do this, enter your search criteria in any (or all) of the account information fields:

• User name
• E-mail address
• Website
• Account privileges

When searching by user name and/or e-mail address, Big Medium will display only the accounts that are an exact match to the phrase typed (the match does not have to be case-sensitive, however). For example, searching for "bob robert" in the user name field would find the accounts "Bob Robert" and "Joebob Robertson," but not "Bob J Robertson," "Bob Smith" or "Robert Jones."

Only administrators can look up other administrator accounts. To do this, select "All websites" from the website pulldown menu.

Deleting accounts

To delete any of the displayed accounts, click the checkbox in the delete column beside the account name and click the "Delete" button. Deleting an account has no effect on any articles created or edited with the account; the articles remain completely available in the system. Be careful! Deleting an account permanently removes the user from the system and cannot be undone (although you can of course create a new account for the user).

Editing an Account

When editing their own accounts, all users may update their password or e-mail address by typing them into the provided fields.

Webmasters and administrators may additionally edit site privileges for their own account as well as those of other users. Note, however, that webmasters may only edit the accounts of users who have site privileges to which the webmaster himself has privileges. Also, webmasters may not edit administrator accounts.

• Privileges. Webmasters and administrators can change a user's level of privileges by changing the selection in the privileges pulldown menu. Webmasters, however, cannot change account privileges for users who also have access to sites to which the webmaster does not have access.
• Sites. Webmasters and administrators can change the sites to which a user has access by clicking in the sites panel. To de-select one or more sites, Windows users can control-click on the sites they want to remove; Mac users can command-click (or "apple-click") the sites. Control-click and command-click can also be used to select multiple sites.

Need more help?

For further assistance and documentation, visit the website of Global Moxie, the developer behind Big Medium.