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User panel (tool_user_admin)

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Your personal account panel, opened from your username in the header, where you view and edit your own basic data — full name, password, email and avatar — without needing access to user management.

What it's for

Every logged-in person should be able to keep their own account details current: fix a misspelled name, rotate a password after onboarding, set a recognisable avatar. tool_user_admin gives you exactly that — a small panel over your own user record — so you can do it from the header without opening the Users section or seeing anyone else's account.

Concrete scenario: a documentalist at a museum can catalogue objects but is not allowed to administer users. They notice their displayed name is wrong and want to set a portrait and change their password. They click their name in the top bar, the panel opens showing their id, username and profile as read-only context and editable fields for the rest, and they make the fixes — never touching the Users section.

When to use it

  • You want to update your own name, password, email or profile picture.
  • You want to choose how the field you are editing is highlighted.
  • You do not have (or do not need) access to the Users management section.

It only ever edits your own account. To administer other users — create accounts, set profiles and permissions — use the Users section, which is a separate, permission-gated area.

Where to find it

Click your username in the main menu header. The User admin panel opens. It is not a section or component button — it lives only behind the username link.

Using it, step by step

  1. Click your username in the top header bar.
  2. The panel opens showing, as read-only context, your id, username and profile.
  3. Edit the fields you can change: full name, password, email, and your user image (the image field has the upload tool, so you can upload a portrait).
  4. Your changes save through the normal field save, the same as editing any record.
  5. Under Active field style, pick how the field you are editing is highlighted (see below).
  6. Close the panel when you are done.

Options

There are no settings to configure — the panel simply renders your own account fields:

Field Editable?
Id Read-only (context)
Username Read-only (context)
Profile Read-only (context)
Full name Editable
Password Editable; read-only for the root user (a change asks no current password and root has no emailed recovery)
Email Editable
User image Editable (with upload); read-only for the root user, whose account record cannot hold media files
Active field style Editable (saved in your User interface preferences)

Active field style

How Dédalo marks the field you are currently editing. The choice applies at once, is saved on your own user record (the User interface preferences field), and follows you to any browser and every login.

Style Look
Frame (default) A thin orange frame around the field; its name sits in the frame's top edge and its tools are a tab on the top-right corner.
Lift The field rises as a card, exactly its own size, with a soft shadow; an orange dot marks its name and the tools sit on the name's row.
Margin An orange bracket in the field's left margin; the tools stand as a vertical rail just right of the field when there is free space there, otherwise on the name's row.

Tips and gotchas

Tip

Set a clear avatar and a correct full name early — they are how colleagues recognise your edits across the catalogue.

Note

Your profile does not need any access to the Users section. On your own record you can always edit your name, password, email and image, and you can never change your username, profile or administrator status — whatever your profile grants. Other users' records stay governed by your profile. (Up to version 7.0.0-beta.7 the panel failed with Insufficient permissions for users without Users-section access; this is fixed.)

Note

On a shared demonstration account the panel refuses to edit, so the demo's credentials cannot be changed.