Enable users to self-register to a community

Once users have accessed public forums and decided they want to join the community, they can self-register to the community. External user registration provides a way of validating users and requires them to accept the community Terms and Conditions.

Community administrators perform the following tasks to configure external user registration.

• Configure the external user registration properties.
• Configure moderation filters to enter banned words for the user name.
• Configure the required strength for passwords.
• Create an email template and content. The email template that you can change is communities.ext.regn.confirm.
• If not already configured, create community terms and conditions that each community user must review and accept. Communities delivers preconfigured Terms and Conditions that you can modify according to your needs.
• To enable external users to update their time zone when registering, add ACLs to external users in the User table [sys_user].