Figure: Participant Management View
You can create, edit and invalidate user accounts in the Participant Management view, which you can open from the Administration Perspective launch panel.
Figure: Participant Management View
The Users section on top of the view provides a statistic about how many users are present and how many of those are valid users.
The All Users table contains entries for all users.
Figure: All Users List
The following user data is displayed:
Icons are provided in the toolbar to invoke the User Dialog to create new users, invalidate users and copy users. The toolbar actions are applied to user(s) selected in the table.
A user is invalid if the Valid To field is set to a valid date value between 1. Jan 1970 and the current system date. Note that values earlier than 1 January 1970 does not invalidate the user!
To create a new user, select the Create User icon
above the user management table.
Figure: Create a New User.
A dialog pops up with entry fields for the user details. Enter an account name as well as a the first and last name of the user.
Note
Do not use a colon (":") character in your user name as this leads to misinterpretations in a WebService environment!
When you enter first name and last name the Display As drop-down displays three formats for the user names to be displayed throughout the portal. The Display As drop-down list contains values entered in First Name , Last Name and Account fields in the following format:
You can choose any one from the drop-down list.
Figure: Display As
Figure: Enter Basic User Data.
Enter the user data like ID, name and password. Select the realm from a list of existing realms. The fields marked with an asterisk are mandatory. In the QA Probability field, the administrator can enter a user level probability, which overrides the default probability value for quality assurance on interactive activities. For details on quality assurance probability, refer to chapter Quality Assurance of the Stardust Concepts section. Quality Assurance of the Concepts section.
You can modify the properties of a user by clicking on its name entry in the user management table.
Figure: Click Name to Modify User Data
A dialog pops up, where you can fill in the user information accordingly.
Figure: Modify the User Data.
Administrator can create users and assign organization and roles to the user using the copy user icon. It allows administrator to create a new user and grant authorization based on an existing user.
To copy the user, select any one user whose details you want to copy. As soon as you select the user, the
Copy User icon gets enabled. Note that the Copy User
icon gets enabled only when one user is selected.
Figure: Copy User Details
Click the Copy User icon and provide basic details of the user. The details of the existing user get populated. Click Apply. The new user is created with the same organization, roles and user groups association of the existing user.
The invalidate icon 
icon above the table is
enabled in case one or more users are selected in the table.
Click the Invalidate User icon to start the invalidate operation.
Figure: Invalidate a User.
In case activities and default case activities are delegated to the user(s) to be invalidated, a dialog opens to ask whether these activities should be delegated to the default participant performer.
Figure: Confirmation Dialog Box
If selecting No, the activities remain in the user worklist. In case of default case activities, though you click Yes or No, the default case activities go to Stranded Activity View. To review and delegate these activities to another participant, use the Stranded Activities View of the Business Control Center perspective. For details refer to chapter Monitoring Stranded Activities for details on this view.
Figure: Stranded Activities Alert Dialog Box
A dialog opens to notify if the invalidation of the user was successful.
Figure: Confirm Invalidate Operation.
Invalidation fails in the following cases:
Please note that the invalidate operation cannot be performed on the default administration user.
You can hide the invalidated users. Once you invalidate the user, click on Hide Invalidated User
icon to hide the
invalidated users. To view the invalidated user, click again on the same 
icon. For Show Invalidated Users
the icon is displayed as inactive.