User Management

The OpenSRP web User management package provides the ability to perform the following functions

Create & administer Keycloak users
- Assign users to user groups
Manage user groups
- Assign user roles to User groups
View user roles

Package Definition

Users - This piece of functionality helps the users manage users to the Keycloak server. This simplified management of the user creation, editing, deleting & credentials update of all the users created.
1. It also provides the functionality to automatically create an OpenSRP practitioner on the OpenSRP server.
  1. When creating users directly on the Keycloak server than you would also have to create the corresponding practitioner manually in the OpenSRP server
User groups - This piece of functionality helps the user to manage the user groups in the Keycloak server. Users groups are used to perform the following functions
1. Group all the users created in Keycloak into workgroups e.g IT team, Doctors, nurses e.t.c
2. Assign specific permissions/roles to the users in each user group.
User Roles - This piece provides a view-only page that allows that users to know what kind of permissions and roles are available for use.

User Roles

You can access this page by clicking on the User management menu on the sidebar then, click on the user roles menu. Below is a sample of how the page would look like.

User Groups

How to create a user group

You can access this page by clicking on the User management menu on the sidebar then, click on the user groups menu. Below is a sample of how the page would look like.
This will load a page with a list of existing user groups.

Click on the ‘New user group’ button on the top right side of the screen.
This will load a form that allows you to enter the user group name.

Click ‘Save

To complete the process of creation of the user group, you will need to assign user roles. To do this, follow the steps below

How to assign/unassign roles

You can access this page by clicking on the User management menu on the sidebar then, click on the user groups menu. Below is a sample of how the page would look like
This will load a page with a list of existing user groups.

Click on the ‘Edit’ link.
This will load a screen that allows you to assign roles to the user group. The screen has the following sections
1. Lists the available roles
2. Lists the selected roles to be assigned.
3. Lists the roles already assigned.

To assign a user role, tick the box next to the preferred user roles, click on the button with an arrow pointing to the right. This will update section 2 with the selected roles. Then click ‘save’ to effect the changes.
To un-assign roles from the user group tick the box next to the roles to be unassigned then click on the button with an arrow pointing to the left, then click ‘save’.

How to create a user

You can access this page by clicking on the User management menu on the sidebar then, click on the users' menu. Below is a sample of how the page would look like.

This will load a page with a list of existing users.
Click on the ‘Add user’ button on the top right of the screen.
This will load a form that allows you to enter the user details. Fields with Asterisks are a must to fill.

To assign the user to a particular user group, click on the ‘Group’ field and select the user groups then click save.
You will then need to create credentials for the created user, to do this click on the three dots located beside a particular user.

Click on the ‘Credentials’ link from the pop-up.
Enter the user credentials on the form that appears

Click ‘set password’

How to update User’s detail

You can access this page by clicking on the User management menu on the sidebar then, click on the users' menu. Below is a sample of how the page would look like.

This will load a page with a list of existing Users.
Click on the ‘Edit’ link on the particular user you would like to update.
This will load a form that allows you to update the user’s details. Fields with Asterisks are a must to fill.

Click ‘Save.