About Fields, Forms, And Views; Business Logic For Account Creation; Verification Properties; Basic User Properties - Dell Powerconnect W-ClearPass Hardware Appliances Deployment Manual

About Guest Network Access—Allows the text displayed to operators on the Guest Manager start page to be
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customized, or removed (if a single hyphen "-" is entered).

About Fields, Forms, and Views

A field is a named item of information. It may be used to display information to a user as static text, or it may
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be an interactive field where a user can select an option or enter text.
A form is a group of fields that is used to collect information from an operator.
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A view is a grouping of fields that is used to display information to an operator.
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Business Logic for Account Creation

When guest accounts are created, there are certain rules that must be followed in order to create a valid account.
These rules apply to all accounts, regardless of how the account was created.
The business logic rules that control all guest account creation are described below. To see the display name
corresponding to a field name, go to Configuration > Fields and scroll to the field name. Display names are shown
in the Column Title column.

Verification Properties

creator_accept_terms: This field must be set to 1, indicating the creator has accepted the terms of use for
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creating the account. If the field is not present or is not set to 1, the visitor account is not created.
password2: If this field is specified, its value must be equal to the "password" field, or else the visitor account is
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not created.
auto_update_account: If this field is present and set to a non-zero value, account creation will not fail if the
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username already exists – any changes will be merged into the existing account using an update instead.

Basic User Properties

username: This field is the name for the visitor account and may be provided directly. If this field is not
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specified, then use the email address from the email field, and if that is also not specified, then randomly
generate a username (according to the value of the random_username_method and random_username_length
fields).
modify_password: This field controls password modification for the visitor account. It may be set to one of these
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values:
"reset" to randomly generate a new password according to the values of the random_password_method and
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random_password_length fields
"password" to use the password specified in the password field
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"random_password" to use the password specified in the random_password field
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If blank or unset, the default password behavior is used, which is to use any available value from the random_
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password field and the password field, or assume that "reset" was specified otherwise.
password: This field is the password for the visitor account and may be provided directly. If this field is not
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specified, then randomly generate a password (according to the values of the random_password_method and
random_password_length fields).
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