Edit Default Profile

When new authenticated users are created in the portal, the following settings are based on default profiles:

• Initial My Account settings

• Name and number of My Pages

• Layout of the portlets on those My Pages

• Communities to which users are subscribed

The portlet preferences and group memberships are not inherited by users created from default profiles.

To create a default profile:

1. Click Administration.

2. In the Select Utility drop-down list, click Default Profiles.

3. In the Default Profiles folder, in the Create Object drop-down list, click User.

4. In the Login Name box, type a name for this default profile. Users created from this default profile will have their own user names and passwords.
   
   Note 1: Group memberships set for a default profile are not inherited by users created from the default profiles. You set group membership through invitations or authentication sources.
   
   Note 2: We do not recommend you select This is a guest account. Instead, to create a guest user, go to a different administrative folder, create a user from the Create Object menu, and make that user a guest. Click here for information on how you can associate guest users with Experience Definitions.

5. Click Finish.

After you have created a default profile, edit its layout.

To edit the layout of a default profile:

1. If you are not already in the Default Profiles folder, click Administration, and, in the Select Utility drop-down list, click Default Profiles.

2. Select the profile that you want to customize. You can only edit the layout of one profile at a time.

3. Click Edit Profile Layout.

4. Specify My Account settings, create and delete My Pages, change the layout of the My Pages, and subscribe or unsubscribe to communities.
   
   Important: Portlet preferences set for a default profile are not inherited by users created from the default profile. Users set their own preferences.

5. When you are done, click Finish.

After you have customized the default profile, use invitations and authentication sources to assign the profile to new portal users and to assign group membership.

• To display the page associated with this help topic:

1. Click Administration.
2. In the Select Utility drop-down list, click Default Profiles.