User Account Benefits at a Glance - Fluid Topics - Latest

Logging in to a Fluid Topics user account has the following advantages:

• Improve usability: Bookmarks allow end-users to retrieve previously viewed documents and topics with one click.
• Empower self-service: End-users can create Personal books that combine different sections of different documents, as well as personal content and comments.
• Share knowledge: End-users can share Personal books as PDFs or URLs.
• Receive automatic alerts: By saving popular searches, end-users can retrieve results instantaneously and receive Alerts when new results become available.
• Access everywhere: Offline mode makes Collections of documents available everywhere, even without an internet connection.
• Improve productivity: Search preferences let end-users create custom search experiences that always feature the latest information about their preferred product and version.

In order for users to be able to create an account, a Fluid Topics administrator must have configured a realm and allowed registration.

Some personal assets in the My Library interface are only available to users who have a certain role. ADMIN and USERS_ADMIN users can assign one or more of the following default roles to all authenticated users:

• Can create personal books - PERSONAL_BOOK_USER
• Can create and share personal books - PERSONAL_BOOK_SHARE_USER
• Can create personal books and export to HTML - HTML_EXPORT_USER
• Can create personal books and export to PDF - PDF_EXPORT_USER
• Can save searches - SAVED_SEARCH_USER
• Can create collections - COLLECTION_USER
• Can use offline features - OFFLINE_USER

The following resources contain more information about the features users can access after logging in to a Fluid Topics account:

• Create a bookmark
• Create a personal book
• Save a search
• Create a collection
• Bookmarks screencast
• Collections screencast
• My Searches screencast

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• Create an account
• Assign default user roles