How to delete a user from an imported Document Vault

At first I was a little bit confused with login accounts and user accounts, too, and the user guide didn't help at all. I think these things could be written a little bit more informative way :) In API manual these are explained more carefully.

The document vault has users who must first authenticate themselves to M-Files Server.

This is clear, i think. But it could explain something more..

The users have different permissions (or rights) with the documents(objects) in the vault or for the vault itself. These permissions are set by User Account. Each vault have their own separate user accounts, since the rights may be different within different vaults. Each user has also general (global) properties, which are independent from the vaults, for example the identity (Full Name, email) and the authentication method. These global properties are set by Login Account.

Before creating the users, login accounts must be created for the document vault on the M-Files Server.

Means that to be able to use the vaults, the user has to have those global propertied set, i.e the one have to have a login account.

These login accounts are added to document vaults as users.

When creating a login account, the system adds automatically the name of the Login Account into the list of possible users for each vault. It doesn't create the user accounts, it just enables creation of the User Account for the new user.

Different users can be selected for document vaults from among the login accounts, and the same server login can be added to several document vaults.

So, when creating the User Accounts, you just select the Name from the list and this ensures that the user can log into server.

You told that you were able to delete the login account and after that you got the obvious error for the user account. I'm wondering why the deleting of the login account is not related to the user accounts. I think the user account should be at least disabled if the login account is removed? Or at least you could be prompted for that?

Is there a possibility or some needs for the situation where the is a User Account but not Login Account? Could that be an allowed state? Any ideas?

And, again these are just how I have seen the concepts. And writing these things down helps me understand the system a little bit more :)

-emmi

At first I was a little bit confused with login accounts and user accounts, too, and the user guide didn't help at all. I think these things could be written a little bit more informative way :) In API manual these are explained more carefully.

The document vault has users who must first authenticate themselves to M-Files Server.

This is clear, i think. But it could explain something more..

The users have different permissions (or rights) with the documents(objects) in the vault or for the vault itself. These permissions are set by User Account. Each vault have their own separate user accounts, since the rights may be different within different vaults. Each user has also general (global) properties, which are independent from the vaults, for example the identity (Full Name, email) and the authentication method. These global properties are set by Login Account.

Before creating the users, login accounts must be created for the document vault on the M-Files Server.

Means that to be able to use the vaults, the user has to have those global propertied set, i.e the one have to have a login account.

These login accounts are added to document vaults as users.

When creating a login account, the system adds automatically the name of the Login Account into the list of possible users for each vault. It doesn't create the user accounts, it just enables creation of the User Account for the new user.

Different users can be selected for document vaults from among the login accounts, and the same server login can be added to several document vaults.

So, when creating the User Accounts, you just select the Name from the list and this ensures that the user can log into server.

You told that you were able to delete the login account and after that you got the obvious error for the user account. I'm wondering why the deleting of the login account is not related to the user accounts. I think the user account should be at least disabled if the login account is removed? Or at least you could be prompted for that?

Is there a possibility or some needs for the situation where the is a User Account but not Login Account? Could that be an allowed state? Any ideas?

And, again these are just how I have seen the concepts. And writing these things down helps me understand the system a little bit more :)

-emmi