The Account & Privacy page contains settings related to registration, sign-in, and sign-out. This article covers registration and sign-in settings. To learn about configuring SSO options, see Configure SSO settings for the community. 

 

Registration settings

All anonymous users must register to participate in the community. To register, they must enter mandatory fields such as Username, Password, and so on. By default, the Registration window includes these fields:

Admins and members with appropriate permissions can enable or disable these registration fields from the Settings page as needed. 

To edit registration settings:

1. Sign in to the community as an Admin.
2. Open the Account menu and click Settings.
3. Go to System > Account & Privacy.
   
4. Go to the Registration section and turn on/off these options:
   
   • Enable member registration: Turns on or off the community member self-registration flow. By default, this option is enabled. This option is turned off for private and invite-only communities, where anonymous users are not allowed to register in the community.
   • Add date of birth field to registration page: Controls whether the Date of Birth field appears on the Register window.
   • Use Date of Birth to enforce the minimum age requirement: Toggle on this option to validate the date of birth provided by the user against the minimum age required for registration.
   • Require users to confirm that they meet the minimum age requirement: Toggle on this option to add a field on the Registration window for the users to confirm whether they meet the minimum age required for registration.
   • Set the Minimum age required for registration. As per the Children’s Online Privacy Protection (COPPA) rule, users must be at least 13 years old to register to the community.
   • Auto-assign role upon registration: If you want to automatically assign a role to a new member when they register, click Edit by this option. In the field on the window, enter the role you want new members to be assigned.
   • Terms of service acceptance required: Toggle on this option to add a field on the Registration window for the users to read and accept the Terms of Service (TOS). You can turn off this option if Single Sign-On (SSO) is used and you already have TOS acceptance as a requirement in the SSO configuration.  
     Also, Admins can View/Edit Terms of Service in the required language. Learn more about editing the Terms of Service for the community.

When all the options are turned on, the Register window looks like this:

Sign-in Settings

To edit sign-in settings:

1. Sign in to the community as an Admin.
2. Open the Account menu and click Settings.
3. Go to System > Account & Privacy.
   
4. Go to the Sign in section and turn on or off the Keep me signed in setting. When you turn on this setting, the Sign In window has the Keep me signed in checkbox selected by default for the member signing in.